Most Important Dawntrail Change to Keep me in FFXIV

[Eraden]

I really don't understand why healers wanting more than the absolute bare minimum of DPS abilities gets criticized as 'healers wanting to be DPS' when we don't treat tanks that way at all. Tanks not only have considerably more DPS options than 1 filler, 1 DoT, and 1 AoE, but they continue to get new attacks every expansion. While the tank role does get described as being a blue DPS role, it has more to do with the loss of aggro management and boss positioning. No one who asks for a new attack of some sort on a tank gets criticized for just wanting to be a DPS, so why do we keep doing it to healers?

Healers are allowed to want a modest selection of attacks to choose from when they don't need to heal and not be criticized for just wanting to be DPS.

But besides that point, there is also an issue with how infrequently healing is needed vs how bloated the healing resources have become. Personally, I think one way they could resolve this would be to convert a lot of tank self-healing into buffs that make the healer's healing stronger on them. Imagine if Warrior's Equilibrium, instead of granting them a flat HP value, increased the amount of HP they recover from healing actions. This allows them to still maintain their sustain while empowering the healer player to act upon that rather than do their job for them. Expand that to a larger scale and that could help the healing side of healers a little more. But realistically, we're never going to see enough outgoing damage across all forms of difficulty to make healers heal more than they attack without facing some serious difficulty spikes that may have nasty consequences on this game's relatively relaxed community of players.

Mao talkings about Healers mights wanting to be DPS is nots meant to be criticism. Is simply Mao recognizings that some Healers mights be wantings to change Healer design. Tanks gettings heals, dps and tankings is seperate issue that Mao already partly touched upon.