#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

New Macro would still be a DPS gain if the healing was necessary and couldn't be covered by DPS neutral heals.

It's just that situation doesn't exist, so short a total overhaul they have to keep making abilities neutral so people can use them effectively. (effective use of new Macro is just never use it)

[AmiableApkallu]

New Macro would still be a DPS gain if the healing was necessary and couldn't be covered by DPS neutral heals.

Yeah, I think there's a fundamental problem in the way people talk about "damage".

The only thing that matters is getting the boss's HP down to zero. The only way to make progress on that goal is by actually dealing damage to the boss.

So, then, what's the point of restoring HP, putting up barriers, or using mitigations? To steal someone else's take from long ago, the point of all that is to delay failure, to delay wiping -- to delay long enough that the party has sufficient time to bring the boss's HP down to zero. More time in which to deal damage is, effectively, more damage dealt, because we can safely assume that the party will use that time to push their buttons and all that.

From that, "we" should come to understand how and why the "raid-contributing DPS" of a "heal" can be more than zero. But, instead, "we" treat the value as zero, which is tantamount to saying that a healer's first duty in a fight never carries any value in achieving the one and only goal of the fight.

/end rant