Would you rather healers get more complex healing kits or more complex DPS kits?

[Volgia]

So correct me if I'm wrong here, but it often feels that the Devs saw min-maxers and the community chasing optimization and then said, what players like are to do more DPS. And so they leaned into that to the point that I've heard "Good healers never cast a heal GCD if they can help it". So to me to make healers more interesting they would have to revise their encounter design. more than just give them more damage options. I don't mean to say that the bosses should hit for more damage or give you a nasty DOT every AoE, that's the equivalent of "It's difficult because the boss has more HP and hits twice as hard". There should be more mechanics that are healer oriented. The only thing that comes to mind is that phase in Shinryu where you have to heal some dragon heads.... some more stuff like that where the healers interact with the encounter differently.

[fulminating]

The only thing that comes to mind is that phase in Shinryu where you have to heal some dragon heads.... some more stuff like that where the healers interact with the encounter differently.

Since they just recently removed the Epstein heal check from the aery, I can’t see them having that idea anytime soon.