Quote Originally Posted by CaptainLagbeard View Post
Yea being a healer doesn't need to be just constantly healing everyone as they take damage, and FFXIV does recognize that. They even have ways oGCD heals to minimize the amount of time you spend just casting heals... But they stubbornly refuse to provide anything else to the class to do.
SCH probably currently is the best designed healer class, if for no other reason than having Energy Drain. It does barely anything being a 100 potency attack, but it's a way to spend your excess Aetherflows without overhealing. WHM has to waste lilies to overheal get Afflatus Misery, SGE has to overheal to get their MP back.
There is just no positive way to engage with these job mechanics, and they refuse to fix that.
Square seems to both understand and not understand it at the same time

Encounters are designed to facilitate healer engagement by not overloading the healing but then the kits look designed like you are desperately fighting for even a single second of downtime

Like pick a lane please