Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
This was always the strangest of bizarre takes to me. I've played multiple MMOs before this one. FF14 is the first game I've ever seen with I pLaY a HeALeR TO heAL, HeALeRS SHouLd HeAL ONLY advocacy group. I've never seen an RPG where anyone's argued this. It's the weirdest box to cage the healer role in, and it's so anti-reality that it hurts my brain.
It's funny because in games like WoW you have a whole range of dps buttons with the option to talent into more ...and you heal non-stop. Sometimes you barely get the chance to press your dps buttons. FF14 is one of the few games that won't let you play healer to heal and the Sylphies will argue to the death about changing any of it.

Most healers in FF14 are simply terrible players. I mean, we have people who claim P5-8s is a big jump in healing when you heal less than in Normal modes in other games. It's still a joke of a tier in terms of healing.

Sylphies play healer to turn their brain off and be carried and "I play healer to HEAL" is a convenient excuse. Suggest making content much harder and the argument swings to "I play this game to have FUN and relax" and "think of the new players, they'd be stressed!".
FF14 players would be absolutely delighted with a healer that simply has a 400 potency DoT with infinite duration, pulses a passive HoT on the raid, one aoe heal with 1500 potency and that's it. It'd be the most played job by a mile. They honestly might as well do that and cater to their clearly intended audience instead of stringing their handful of remaining MMO players along on false hope. The majority of players who want to actually play a game quit for other MMO's or rolled dps long ago.