Healing Focus or DPS Focus

[Supersnow845]

More healing, please. And more resource management. And I know this one is probably like asking for a unicorn, but some battlefield control gameplay would be nice, too.

I don't find DPSing this game's damage sponges and HP sacks particularly fun so I don't care whether that aspect gets changed -- unless they stick a really annoying damage kit on a healer I otherwise like, and then I care very much.

"But, but, but," I hear all the little DPS lovers saying...

"I want more healing too but the devs will never give it to us so I'm asking for something I think I can get!"
Go to the library and look for guides on how to negotiate. You don't start from your compromise position.

"If you don't like the new DPS buttons you don't have to press them!"
Yes you do. It's called valuing your party members' time.

"They're not going to go back and change the old fights to require more healing."
Who asked for that? They didn't go back and change Coils or Alex when they changed healers in ShB, so why does it matter now that old raids have different healing requirements?

1) we have been arguing for both for years and have never gotten anything, let’s not pretend like we opened with compromise
2) doesn’t stop half this games playerbase from being actively terrible, those comments are referencing sylphies who say “but too many DPS buttons are problematic” as if they currently press the ones we do have
3) so basically only future content will ever be remotely interesting and all content up till now will stay as this boring beige disaster

Really not painting a desirable picture here

[vetch]

1) we have been arguing for both for years and have never gotten anything, let’s not pretend like we opened with compromise
2) doesn’t stop half this games playerbase from being actively terrible, those comments are referencing sylphies who say “but too many DPS buttons are problematic” as if they currently press the ones we do have
3) so basically only future content will ever be remotely interesting and all content up till now will stay as this boring beige disaster

1) Wow it sounds like you should give up on both, then.

2) How turbo-bads play isn't relevant to me. I want to contribute to my party, I would prefer to contribute more healing but will press whatever buttons I have, and a really tedious DPS kit will chase me off of a job before it makes me consider purposely not contributing.

3) Plenty of content will still be fun. Coils and Alex, Dun Scaith, Thordan EX, Sephirot EX, UCOB, UWU, dungeons where they actually let tanks mega-pull.

[Supersnow845]

1) Wow it sounds like you should give up on both, then.

2) How turbo-bads play isn't relevant to me. I want to contribute to my party, I would prefer to contribute more healing but will press whatever buttons I have, and a really tedious DPS kit will chase me off of a job before it makes me consider purposely not contributing.

3) Plenty of content will still be fun. Coils and Alex, Dun Scaith, Thordan EX, Sephirot EX, UCOB, UWU, dungeons where they actually let tanks mega-pull.

1) that’s not even remotely relevant to the point, acting like we opened with compromise is wrong
2) why do you assume anything they add will be “really tedious”
3) if that was enough content to make healer enjoyable we wouldn’t be having this conversation