Latest Official Developer Statements About Healer DPS?

[Solakor]

Uh oh the mind blenders are loose again. If you think its ok that healers have 1 dps button you gotta have something wrong up there. It doesn't matter how much you up the healing if an aspect of the job is clearly ass. Oh and btw, SE will never up the healing ever again because they are so afraid of the raid community getting angry that they can't clear a fight. So every new action, mitigation is just skill bloat as were the new skills in EW and ShB.

[Nobuyuki_Sanada]

Uh oh the mind blenders are loose again. If you think its ok that healers have 1 dps button you gotta have something wrong up there. It doesn't matter how much you up the healing if an aspect of the job is clearly ass. Oh and btw, SE will never up the healing ever again because they are so afraid of the raid community getting angry that they can't clear a fight. So every new action, mitigation is just skill bloat as were the new skills in EW and ShB.

Again I will then ask, why have healers at all? Adding even 3 new damage options isn't going to be enough to make it suddenly fun. Adding more than that and your just making more DPS classes with heals for oGCD's rather than more damage. Hitting 2 buttons instead of 1 is not more fun. DPS are fun because their entire kit works together, its not because they get to hit more buttons. Damage would have to some way aid me or my allies in order for it to synergize with the rest of the kit therefore making it fun for the role.

I'm not saying its current state isn't boring, I'm saying adding another damage button won't make it fun and we will just continue asking for more damage buttons until healers are just DPS classes.

[Solakor]

Again I will then ask, why have healers at all? Adding even 3 new damage options isn't going to be enough to make it suddenly fun. Adding more than that and your just making more DPS classes with heals for oGCD's rather than more damage. Hitting 2 buttons instead of 1 is not more fun. DPS are fun because their entire kit works together, its not because they get to hit more buttons. Damage would have to some way aid me or my allies in order for it to synergize with the rest of the kit therefore making it fun for the role.

I'm not saying its current state isn't boring, I'm saying adding another damage button won't make it fun and we will just continue asking for more damage buttons until healers are just DPS classes.

In case you haven't noticed every healer and tank has an overloaded kit. The reason is the same as why the class gameplay has been homogenized. It's to cater to lazy ppl who don't want to learn and to minimize fail state. This wasn't really an issue in ARR to SB because the game was made so that you had to use gcd heals and not have mitigation for everything. Also the potencies of skills were lower and mobs hit harder, aggro etc. We are past the point that the game will ever again see the kind of gameplay you want. The game that has that is WoW.

Tbh it is starting to look like 14 has become babys first mmo and then you graduate to the big OG when you get good enough, unless you dont for some reason like wow, because the systems there are still role specific and ff14 seems to be going somewhere else. Holy trinity exists for a reason.

[Supersnow845]

Again I will then ask, why have healers at all? Adding even 3 new damage options isn't going to be enough to make it suddenly fun. Adding more than that and your just making more DPS classes with heals for oGCD's rather than more damage. Hitting 2 buttons instead of 1 is not more fun. DPS are fun because their entire kit works together, its not because they get to hit more buttons. Damage would have to some way aid me or my allies in order for it to synergize with the rest of the kit therefore making it fun for the role.

I'm not saying its current state isn't boring, I'm saying adding another damage button won't make it fun and we will just continue asking for more damage buttons until healers are just DPS classes.

So why do tanks get to have rotations that double as slightly simplified melees but healers can’t have something that resembles anything

[Merrigan]

Again I will then ask, why have healers at all? Adding even 3 new damage options isn't going to be enough to make it suddenly fun. Adding more than that and your just making more DPS classes with heals for oGCD's rather than more damage. Hitting 2 buttons instead of 1 is not more fun. DPS are fun because their entire kit works together, its not because they get to hit more buttons. Damage would have to some way aid me or my allies in order for it to synergize with the rest of the kit therefore making it fun for the role.

I'm not saying its current state isn't boring, I'm saying adding another damage button won't make it fun and we will just continue asking for more damage buttons until healers are just DPS classes.

Most people are asking for more dps buttons because you certainly won't get anything else. I think so ?

Synergy would be extraordinary, but there's little chance of it taking shape because of the design of the fights. For the moment, personally: I'd just like to stop my hand hurting every time I do a long healer session, because of the repetitive nature of the movement.