How DPS complexity can make healers more forgiving

[Shurrikhan]

No, I'm speaking from direct experience. What was fun to me about running POTD on WAR vs WHM wasn't "more DPS buttons", it was that the buttons felt accessible. I have Holy (useful for the Stun, but long cast time; useful on Mimics until floor...40 or so) and Assize (on a 40 sec CD), but WAR felt more dynamic because I pressed buttons and, BAM!, something happened. There was no cast time, so the feedback was more instantaneous and visceral. And that made it more fun.

So, just entirely subjective cast-times-feel-bad?

I mean, fair enough, but... that doesn't seem a warrant worth theorizing what should be done for healer combos off of. Your previous post treated this like some inherent critical factor appreciable by most players; it seems instead just to be your particular aversion to delayed effect / reward for smart pre-casting. That may be held by others, but we've yet to see whether that's a significant portion, and it's certainly nothing integral or unique to combos.

4 Healers Model aside, there's literally no reason for us NOT to have a healer that has instant cast damage filler spells as part of a slightly more involved rotation where you're trading instant cast mobility for cast time simplicity.

So long as the consequent skill ceilings are both decently high (despite a less involved rotation on the other and no movement optimizations on the other) and decently equal across a rough average of difficult fights, sure. That's not as it may sound, but such should be possible.

WHY do all the healer Jobs need to have the exact same rotation/mechanics?

Find me anyone who asked for this strawman?