Why don't we have more DPS abilities ?

[ElysiumDragon]

Because you're a WHM.

WHM is the 'easy' healer, that's the job's entire identity. No frills, no card shenanigans, no pet jank. Just raw healing and a little DPS. It even has an unconditional dash like Dancer.

If you want big-brain DPS stuff, Sage exists, and is actually pretty fun. I'll use WHM to learn a fight, but Sage to have fun doing that same fight.

[Supersnow845]

Because you're a WHM.

WHM is the 'easy' healer, that's the job's entire identity. No frills, no card shenanigans, no pet jank. Just raw healing and a little DPS. It even has an unconditional dash like Dancer.

If you want big-brain DPS stuff, Sage exists, and is actually pretty fun. I'll use WHM to learn a fight, but Sage to have fun doing that same fight.

SGE has 5 meaningful DPS buttons, WHM has 5 as well. What is so gigabrained about SGE, it’s the same dosis spam as WHM glare spam.

Not to mention the actual gigabrain healer in modern 14 (as far as you can call any healer gigabrain) SCH……..also has 5 damage buttons

If WHM is the easy healer why does it have arguably the highest non glare ratio of any healer

[Docteur_Fluttershy]

Because you're a WHM.

WHM is the 'easy' healer, that's the job's entire identity. No frills, no card shenanigans, no pet jank. Just raw healing and a little DPS. It even has an unconditional dash like Dancer.

If you want big-brain DPS stuff, Sage exists, and is actually pretty fun. I'll use WHM to learn a fight, but Sage to have fun doing that same fight.

WHM is the most straight forward. That doesn't directly translate in "easiest" from that alone.
You will have a greater success of learning a fight in SGE rather than WHM, mostly because SGE has more tools and a way better movement capacity. It allows for more 'screw up' situations.

For example, if you have a healer that can only use one spell to heal, and not potencialy a great one, it's gonna be the 'easiest' to understand sure. But he will be probably the hardest to play since his 'one button' won't cut it for every situation. having more tools and more powerfull ones, with great mobility, is what make a class easier compared to another one.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Sage probably has the best DPS gameplay of the healers... But at the same time, SCH is just the better designed Job purely because of Chain Stratagem and Energy Drain.

If they took all the spells and abilities of all the healers and put them onto one singular Job, you could end with one actually well designed Healer job... Though it might still need some boost to their attack's potency...

[Teno]

Sage probably has the best DPS gameplay of the healers... But at the same time, SCH is just the better designed Job purely because of Chain Stratagem and Energy Drain.

If they took all the spells and abilities of all the healers and put them onto one singular Job, you could end with one actually well designed Healer job... Though it might still need some boost to their attack's potency...

They all have the same gameplay anyway... If they were to mix it all in one, it'd end up similar to what scholar was back then (spell uptime management), because at the end of the day no healer has true identity right now, it's just the same but largely pruned from what it was.

[Qyoon]

Sage probably has the best DPS gameplay of the healers...

While being the healer with the less dps of them all wich is funny when you think about it.

[Carighan]

While being the healer with the less dps of them all wich is funny when you think about it.

Not really, it's not the size of your epeen that matters, it's how you use it. :P

[Allyissa]

You know I wish healing was more like the chaotic duty M7N. Picking your spots to dps is a challenge. I have seen healers who pretty much just dps fail at healing because they are not used to it. I know it will get easier to an extent with gear and more people knowing how to do it, but it is still a wake up call. Most healers have a problem power healing.

Spicing up everything is good for the game. Tanks having to mit, healers having to heal, and dps staying mostly out of bad is where the game was at in SB. I remember the salt from Orbonne Monastery and Cid. It was not super hard, just a bit more spicy than usual and people did not like it. People cried because it was too hard when in fact, in my opinion, people were babied with too easy of content because that was all they did.

I know it am not top tier savage material, but even I did not mind stuff like that. I am just starting to get into EX and Savage content a bit more now.

[CaptainLagbeard]

You know I wish healing was more like the chaotic duty M7N. Picking your spots to dps is a challenge. I have seen healers who pretty much just dps fail at healing because they are not used to it. I know it will get easier to an extent with gear and more people knowing how to do it, but it is still a wake up call. Most healers have a problem power healing.

It's gotten a lot easier after launch week, but I like Brute Bomber (in both forms), he hits how a Normal Raid should hit. Even his Brutal Impact raidwides later on in the fights will kill pretty much every non-tank if there's no Healing or Mitigation.