#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Mutsukki]

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properly mastering healing is mastering the healing kits and the fight. this image means literally nothing without telling us which fight this actually pertains to and it just means you're seeing an optimized healing parse. our fun comes from planning ahead and recovering from mistakes. it's not a textbook example of anything other than the role rightfully not being for everyone

[WaxSw]

properly mastering healing is mastering the healing kits and the fight. this image means literally nothing without telling us which fight this actually pertains to and it just means you're seeing an optimized healing parse. our fun comes from planning ahead and recovering from mistakes. it's not a textbook example of anything other than the role rightfully not being for everyone

Its my own parse, feel free to go the forbidden page and look the week one clear of p9s. I wanted to add the one from p3s since it had an unusually high GCD count thanks to the buff but the page didn't allow me.

The textbook example does not come from the parse. It comes from basic understanding how the game works. The better you become, the more you get from your cooldowns, the more you get from your cooldowns the less you need to heal, the less you heal the more you nukespam (assuming you don't have already 100% damage uptime) which is unfun, repetitive and generic. It's not rocket science to understand how in a scripted game with healing slots having a proper downtime kit is essential, even WoW knows that and the healers there actually heal

[Mutsukki]

Its my own parse, feel free to go the forbidden page and look the week one clear of p9s. I wanted to add the one from p3s since it had an unusually high GCD count thanks to the buff but the page didn't allow me

first floors are usually easier, i wasn't doubting your parse, i'm just saying it could be for anything and by itself that image means nothing. but like, does it really make that much of a difference if that dosis is broken up into 3 different combo skills that won't break? AST has a good DPS kit, why don't you try it week 1? it's been simplified for DT but it's still a lot of decision making and understanding the job.

[WaxSw]

first floors are usually easier, i wasn't doubting your parse, i'm just saying it could be for anything and by itself that image means nothing. but like, does it really make that much of a difference if that dosis is broken up into 3 different combo skills that won't break? AST has a good DPS kit, why don't you try it week 1? it's been simplified for DT but it's still a lot of decision making and understanding the job.

Thats why I said give ot take 10-20 GCDs because you won't go higher than that and even if those numbers are added the nukespam is well above 40% of the total actions and above 60-70% of the total GCDs of the fight. It's not proper gameplay

I like to heal which is why I play shield healers as they contribute the more to the total hps on average, but opening a bit of the AST can of worms:


Do you really think that is a good dps kit? Is our standard already that low? and that is without counting DT simplification which will reduce the decision making (Ast from the same fight as above)

No one said combos or anything like that (to begin with 1-2-3 combos don't exist in isolation, they feed to other job mechanics), we are casters too, literally not a single caster has a 1-2-3 combo as their filler and in the past healers had better dps rotations without combos. We could have procs, we could have dots, we could have priority systems, we could have builder-spenders, we could have actual resource management and even burst phase combos like RDM, there is a lot we could have that would be compatible with healing and make the job rewarding.

[GrimGale]

does it really make that much of a difference if that dosis is broken up into 3 different combo skills that won't break?

You can have engaging healer DPS kits that don't add extra buttons and don't use 123 combos. (123 combos isn't a popular alternative in the healer forums. It basically adds mechanical complexity without any actual gameplay engagement. You're not thinking about what you're pressing next beyond following the lit up key.)