I'm bored when I heal because I need more complex DPS rotations

[Renathras]

Your "4 Healers Model" does not give me what I want, by your own admission.

"most of"
not
"all of"

There's no situation where we all will get ALL of what we want. That's impossible considering both sides want things that cannot simultaneously be true.

So 100% healing uptime already happened? lmao

How do you go from "hasn't happened yet" to "so it's happened already?! lmao"? That's like the opposite. But, again, this is a side issue that isn't relevant.

Good game design would be ensuring that the majority of each healer's toolkit felt useful and necessary in all forms of content for every type of player. The problem is power creep.

I want to agree with this, but I don't think it's true OTHER THAN the last five words. I think that's true.

Consider a player that likes melee and tanks. They like being right up next to the boss engaging with them, and they hate combat with casting. They won't be happy with RDM because it can't just melee all the time, it has to use cast bars. They also won't like SAM for the cast bars. Should we make every Job in the game have melee combos to appeal to this type of player who doesn't enjoy non-melee combat or caster gameplay?

At some level, we have to accept the basic premise that no Job will appeal to everyone at the same time. We accept this across Jobs and across roles, but for some reason, people insist it's not allowed for healers, despite it being true of every other role and Job in the game, and in general, true of classes and specs in other MMOs as well. There's no game ever invented that had different classes where every class was appealing to every player or type of player. Maybe someone likes using shields and barriers, so they pick SCH or SGE...but then a lot of SCH/SGE healing is through oGCD regens and direct heals. That player doesn't find Indom or Physis enjoyable, they want to use more Adlo/Succor/EuProg/Diag. But the game doesn't shift to accommodate them.

Small note: Technically, if XIV were okay with making MP an actual mechanic in this game, new healing skills could have involved greater efficient vs. bursty-ness instead of necessarily needing to be introduced as oGCDs.

Mhm. It's kind of a mess where we are with the oGCDs at this point.

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Also seconding Roe's comment on Liturgy's CD being too honkin' long.

EDIT:

I'm just saying, there were people who struggled with Storm's Crown EX because it did more frequent raidwides than usual, and that's nowhere near even 60% healing uptime.

You're conflating two issues here, I think. Storm's Crown also had heavy movement during the damage phases, meaning players trying to use hardcast spells weren't able to. You can have that level of damage with less movement and resolve that issue, which is what we had more of back in ARR fights, so it's not like the game hasn't done it before.

As for "Sylphies"; they realistically don't exist. In the literal sense, Sylphie in the CNJ quest wasn't "I don't wanna dps, I just wanna HEAL!" that people caricature. She was "I don't want to take power from the Elementals because my mother said it hurts them, I'm going to heal from my own life force and I think I learned the BLU Transfusion spell that will kill me when I raise someone, let's go try it out!". Never was it mentioned that she "didn't want to dps". That's an invention of the pro-damage community so they have a convenient insult to poison conversations with.