Make healers DPS with four or five healing actions

[ElysiumDragon]

Honestly, it feels like 99% of the complaints about 'healing boring' are coming from White Mage mains who spend 99% of their time spamming Glare because their co-healer's pulling most of the actual healing weight.

You can just say "I think White Mage is a boring job to play in casual content", it's not some sort of 'forbidden truth' that must be redacted.

[ty_taurus]

Honestly, it feels like 99% of the complaints about 'healing boring' are coming from White Mage mains who spend 99% of their time spamming Glare because their co-healer's pulling most of the actual healing weight.

You can just say "I think White Mage is a boring job to play in casual content", it's not some sort of 'forbidden truth' that must be redacted.

I made a very dedicated effort to try and love Sage from 6.0 to 6.2 as someone who was a long-time healer exclusive player up until Shadowbringers.

In dungeons, I heal with 2 buttons: Kerachole and Ixochole during bosses, and Kerachole and Taurochole during trash pulls. That's it. Very occasionally will something go 'wrong' and I'll use an extra button or maybe two, but otherwise I have 100% DPS uptime and use a fraction of my healing cooldowns. This is largely true for everything up to Extreme and beyond. And I both progged and recleared the tier 1 of savage fights in PF as a Sage. Granted tier 1 was mostly gentle on healing, but P3S particularly had a pretty decent amount of healer pressure, and even there I still would be Dosising my fingers off for the majority of the fight. It's still more involved than the dungeon experience of course, as I was managing my cooldowns and relying on at least most of my heals throughout the tier. I would parse blue-purple in PF and still outheal my cohealers most of the time. These experiences taught me something:

I hate the bug zapper.

I am sick and tired of spamming Dosis. I abandoned the entire healing role in Shadowbringers because of that problem, and Sage did nothing to fix it. I enjoy PVP Sage, where I get to cast Eukrasian Dosis and Phlegma twice as often, Toxikon isn't hot trash, and Pneuma is actually a DPS button, not a burst heal disguised as a DPS button. So as someone who only healed prior to Shadowbringers, who actively tried to heal again at the start of Endwalker, I think all healers are boring in all content because I don't have enough to attack with, and I don't have enough reasons to heal instead of attack.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Honestly, it feels like 99% of the complaints about 'healing boring' are coming from White Mage mains who spend 99% of their time spamming Glare because their co-healer's pulling most of the actual healing weight.

You can just say "I think White Mage is a boring job to play in casual content", it's not some sort of 'forbidden truth' that must be redacted.

No, I actually like healing and am usually the one doing most of the healing.

Also funny you say WHMs get carried on healing and others say WHM overheal....can't win here.