Quote Originally Posted by Mithron View Post
I believe currently this is the most pressing issue in the entire game that needs to be addressed above everything else. That is my feedback.
You are right in saying it's the most pressing issue, not exclusively because of healers, but because the game design is fundamentally bad.

The only purpose of healing in FFXIV is to press a button every 30 seconds after a raid-wide. The reason there's a raid-wide every 30 seconds or so is because Square Enix unfortunately made healers exist 10 years ago and now have to find something to do with them. Because this is FFXIV, the engine is old, likely runs on punch cards, and SE can't design more interesting raids. This is their way of making it "interesting" in lieu of actual mechanics: every job category has a certain button to press at a fixed interval. That's your engagement. Small company, low revenue, not doing so well, etc.

If Yoshi-P wasn't a tired old man, he might consider making healers a buff/debuff class instead (a la FF13). That way healers can assist in damage and only need to manage contingency healing rather than raid-wides. Using buffs/debuffs means that every healer would do something different, allowing creativity. Naturally, this is Square Enix and Yoshi-P so that will never happen. 10 more years!