A summary of healer issues

[Silver-Strider]

One man's fixed problem is another's further McDonaldization. I see it as another March further down the road to zero skill expression, dumbing jobs down to make Japanese party finder ever more consistent, etc. Buff range isn't a hill I'd die on, because I died several mountain ranges back. It's more evidence that Square continues the march forward on their horrible job design philosophy, and nothing we warn about here has any impact. Sylphies are the target audience.

Do you think it will be 7.0 or 8.0 when SE decides to remove the cast time and costs from GCD Heals because that honestly feels like a possibility now.

[ForsakenRoe]

Do you think it will be 7.0 or 8.0 when SE decides to remove the cast time and costs from GCD Heals because that honestly feels like a possibility now.

If that's the price to pay for 'actually interesting gameplay during downtime where there's nothing to heal' I'll absolutely make that trade. The issue is that SE would do the first half of the trade (instantcast, free heal GCDs) and not the second half in compensation (the additional gameplay). See Kaiten, and how some expected it to be replaced by something else that requires braincells. Instead it was replaced with... nothing. So the kenki got dumped onto Shinten instead, very fun.

And if the change did happen in such a way that eg Medica is now an OGCD with a 2 sec CD, what would the new rationalization from the 'healers should heal' squad be, it's not like the 'casuals' would be stressed if they could weave healing OGCD at literally any moment, akin to weaving tank mitigations

[Semirhage]

If that's the price to pay for 'actually interesting gameplay during downtime where there's nothing to heal' I'll absolutely make that trade. The issue is that SE would do the first half of the trade (instantcast, free heal GCDs) and not the second half in compensation (the additional gameplay). See Kaiten, and how some expected it to be replaced by something else that requires braincells. Instead it was replaced with... nothing. So the kenki got dumped onto Shinten instead, very fun.

And if the change did happen in such a way that eg Medica is now an OGCD with a 2 sec CD, what would the new rationalization from the 'healers should heal' squad be, it's not like the 'casuals' would be stressed if they could weave healing OGCD at literally any moment, akin to weaving tank mitigations

I for one eagerly await the new justification for HeALeRs ShOULd bE HeALiNG crowd once it becomes even easier than it is now. I've already had my mind broken with "Glare is fun and comfy", so screw it. Bring it on. Let the madness strip naked and jiggle around on the FFXIV healing stage, I'm already DPSing anyway.