#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ty_taurus]

What if they remove all insta-heals and made it all GCD, then you can feel like you're actively healing? Idk honest question.

Having OGCDs is not inherently a bad thing. We had only GCD heals in ARR, and one of the consequences there was that healing is more restrictive, but then HW came along and gave OGDs like Indomitability, Asylum, and Terta, and that felt like a good move for healers because it added more flexibility to how you heal. You didn’t have a dozen different cooldowns, so the ones you did have held a lot more weight to their impact and timing, yet they also weren’t enough to let you ignore your GCD heals either.

Good healer gameplay in FFXIV is all about striking a balance between your healing and your DPS. You have time to attack, but you also need to stop and heal at various intervals of battle. That balance is rather delicate through, so constantly adding more healing OGCDs has ironically tipped that balance in favor of more DPS. Adding healing should have been done more cautiously to avoid power creeping other heals.

[Somnolence]

Good healer gameplay in FFXIV is all about striking a balance between your healing and your DPS.

Unfortunately since certain website exists now GCD healing = not as good colored number = bad.

[OliviaLugria]

Ya... uhmmm, good healer gameplay right now is to do as little healing as possible whole doing as much dps as possible.

[Avatre]

Ya... uhmmm, good healer gameplay right now is to do as little healing as possible whole doing as much dps as possible.

Well...if things die faster, then less healing is needed...so more DPS means less healing anyways.

Sure, the potency of all non-healer role sustains could be lowered, but not likely to happen in the near future.

[Absurdity]

Unfortunately since certain website exists now GCD healing = not as good colored number = bad.

This isn't some kind of new phenomenon caused by FFlogs.

If your win condition is to make the health bar reach 0 in a certain timeframe then "improving" your gameplay means you perform your primary role while you eliminate unnecessary actions that do not contribute to making the health bar reach 0.

The reason why GCD healing is generally considered bad nowadays is a consequence of CBU3's design decisions, making the healer role completely bloated with oGCDs that allow you to keep the party alive while never causing you to not contribute to lowering that health bar, therefore making all GCD healing unnecessary actions.

[Jeycht]

Unfortunately since certain website exists now GCD healing = not as good colored number = bad.

That was already a thing before that even exist. Even tanks droped the tank stance (when that stance reduced your dps back then) to do more damage at risk to take more damage/lose aggro (since it wasn't as easy to keep it as now)
You don't even need to care about aggro as tank anymore for ages and I don't remember people talking about it.