Quote Originally Posted by Azurarok View Post
Not quite on topic but also I really don't like how the current healer design just turns your basic healing spells into last resort tools by giving you more and more oGCDs instead of giving you ways to make them sacrificeless. No other role goes out of their way to turn the better part of your lv50 kit into something you never want to use
In general FFXIV older heal kit lacked oGCDs because the system was designed around Healers balancing damage dealing and healing as seperate gameplay, SCH had dots because you were managing your fairy and its positions to hit the range of as many people in your raid as possible for abilities you would still GCD heal but your fairy was doing far more work on average, WHM had lots of hard cast heals so they had a few long CD attacks as well as two dots you werent controlling a pet so your balancing act of damage and healing was more about timing, AST is the most similar to current healers but thats mostly because AST was the only true buff oriented Healer so you were managing an entirely different system and maybe even shielding or pure healing depending on your comp. The old healer kit was well designed in that way, there were some odd choices, cleric stance will always be controversal but overall the pre-50 healing kit made sense in the context of healers main system of them all being damage dealing casters who had to balance heals.

WHM system with Lilys is a good compromise for GCD heals in the current game design. Bringing up WoW like I usually do, heals in that game are rarely sacrificeless too but this is normally because healers in wow have assize like DPS options, heals usually used as general regen for constant damage that also act as ways to deal damage, hell the Evoker healer spec is all about positioning yourself to have your damage cast land on both your party and the enemies because the enemies take damage while they heal your party members. Though I prefer seperating damage dealing and healing if CBU3 won't backdown on healers having a kit filled with a bunch of heals, they need to combine damage dealing and healing together at least on certain healers like WHM and SGE.