#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Saraide]

But how do you make an encounter to push you to use your class to your fullest if everything hits like a wet noodle. Shrug..lol. Healers do exactly that: heal. If there is not enough damage incoming and enough punishing mechanics, you cannot use your rotation fully, it's not rocket science to understand that.

For example: shift more healer actions from healing related to dps related, nerf overpowered heals from other roles, nerd overpowered healing oGCDs. None of these suggestions are rocket science, they existed in the game before SE decided to rip it all out. There is no one single thing that makes healer design bad in this game, it's a compound of issues that the devs have created over the years. And lets not forget, during the time healer design was a lot more complex, they were not the role that had to be bribed with mounts to get played.

[Kohashi]

For example: shift more healer actions from healing related to dps related, nerf overpowered heals from other roles, nerd overpowered healing oGCDs. None of these suggestions are rocket science, they existed in the game before SE decided to rip it all out. There is no one single thing that makes healer design bad in this game, it's a compound of issues that the devs have created over the years. And lets not forget, during the time healer design was a lot more complex, they were not the role that had to be bribed with mounts to get played.

Why nerf/mess with classes and risk making the overall balance of the classes to become a mess when you can just do harder encounters for which classes are already balanced for?

Also, it's never healthy to dwell on the past, especially over a past that has been so long ago. They moved away from that design and direction. What makes you think SE will return to it?

[Supersnow845]

Why nerf/mess with classes and risk making the overall balance of the classes to become a mess when you can just do harder encounters for which classes are already balanced for?

Also, it's never healthy to dwell on the past, especially over a past that has been so long ago. They moved away from that design and direction. What makes you think SE will return to it?

“Make classes a mess”

Because healers are such a paradigm of good balance right now with their balance of “the useless one, the shield one that actually a regen healer, the why is your damage allowed to be this high and the square enix please I’m begging you to nerf this unmitigated monster that’s been plaguing the game since 2.0”

[CaptainLagbeard]

For the DPS side, if they're so desperate to keep Healers only having one attack spell, buff it up to the point where it matches Tanks damage output, or nerf Tanks damage to match healers. Because Tanks aren't supposed to be DPS either so there's no justification at all on why they should be doing more damage than Healers.
And one thing that was suggested in a thread some time ago, replacing most heals from Tanks with shields. That alongside with removing heals from a lot of the attacks on tanks would probably do wonders to the game's design.