Dawntrail Healers need a rework

[Renathras]

Scholar rework

I feel like if they do a SCH rework, it will shift it more in the direction of SMN. Other than MNK, most reworks have been to make things simpler/more streamlined.

I still believe that the solution isn't to do the same thing with all the healers. For example, _A_ healer Job having a priority system makes sense. But all of them having it? Then we're in the same situation we're in now. The problem, I think, is all the healers' downtime being more or less the same. Going from one same to a different same doesn't fix that. There needs to be an outlet for people that don't like what the others offer. And just having a different priority system doesn't help when there are people who don't like priority systems.

It's like taking a bunch of people that hate sports and were playing videogames and saying you want them to play soccer, and when some say they don't want to play soccer, offering them basketball and football as options, ignoring that they aren't saying they don't like soccer, they're saying they don't like sports, which is why they were playing videogames instead of sports when you happened upon them. While some might like videogames AND sports and take you up on one of the options presented, that doesn't help the people that don't like sports and were explicitly avoiding sports.

It ultimately comes down to different people like and are good at different things. The Caster role reflects this well, with BLM, RDM, and SMN all being distinct and appealing to different types of player.

EDIT:

It's a false dichotomy. There shouldn't be downtime in the first place, if content was designed to keep healers occupied.

To make an analogy, if DPS players could only do damage for five seconds every minute and the other 55 seconds they had to spam a buff button, everyone would agree that it's insane. But (FFXIV) healers are stuck in a rut of deciding what to do with downtime, as clears are done without 2 healers or even any healers at all.

This is honestly a REALLY good analogy. Thank you.