#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Kacho_Nacho]

I honestly don't really understand why they can't give healer a full rotation instead of just two buttons, I know they have healing responsibility and in high end content it does get pretty serious but tanks have a full dps rotation and still having 8 mitigation buttons they have to make full use of in ultimate content.

I understand button bloat is a big issue but some GCD heals could be combined together to make room for new buttons.

I think the very few dps buttons are the main reason I rarely play healer tbh

From my understanding, the reason Yoshi is resistant to the idea of giving healers a full damage dealing rotation is it would result in players neglecting their healing abilities and also lead to players being put under social pressure to deal damage more than their skill level may allow. I believe this is why the initial Japanese forum response to #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE was "If you want to DPS, play a DPS."

I also feel this is why the new DPS spells for healers are on a two minute cooldown. There seems to be this deep mindset that healers should be focused on monitoring everyone's health bars even when there is no damage coming in rather than getting caught up in the sort of things damage dealers focus their attention on. They want the damage rotation of the healing jobs to remain mostly one spell.

Personally, I am willing to accept this, if this is one of the things we cannot change. But, if we healers are supposed to be focused on health bars and character status effects so much, then the game should reflect that.

It doesn't.

That's why I'm a proponent of nerfing the healing and dispelling abilities of the non-healer jobs. If healers are supposed to mainly heal, let us mainly heal.

As for button bloat, definitely combine redundant heals. Healers don't need to have their action bars filled for the sake of filling them. Each spell should have a purpose.