Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
In fairness, I disagree there. There are indeed a pretty substantial number of people who would prefer to actually be able to play the healbot. It’s just this game doesn’t really support that at any level in its current form.

IMO the compromise is buffing. But SE are too afraid/incapable of investing the time needed to get it right.
I do! My favourite content to heal was The Feast as a Scholar, back when they removed the healer dps abilities but kept the damage amounts the same so it was a constant battle just to keep people alive on top of dealing with stuff like CC, or running around grabbing those bloody potions or the medals lol. I even actually had to use Physick! There was so much healing required that you’d just bottom out of MP really fast if you spammed Adloquium with abandon. It was one of the few times I ever felt like a ‘real healer’.

That said, naturally I don’t expect anything like that to ever manifest in ffxiv’s PvE lol, it would completely demolish the healer player-base with how much work it would required. It would be too much of a 180 from how content is currently, that it wouldn’t be fair to make it the norm.

But still, we (well, I) do exist! Just hiding in dark corners dreaming of things that will never be. I do agree that buffing is a very good compromise way, since it allows for a healer to contribute in more varied ways than just directly dealing damage to the enemy