Thread: Happy Healer in 5.0 thread

Originally Posted by ForteNightshade

Imagine if RDM achieved its damage by spamming 121212121212 and only occasionally weaved in a couple oGCDs. Congratulations. You now have what a standard healer rotation looks like. This is what healers are upset about. Unless content hits harder, they're already glorified DPS with boring DPS abilities. What we have seen thus far is more of the same... except even less DPS.

But Red Mage is a job in the DPS role. It will obviously have a more robust DPS rotation.

How does Red Mage's healing kit look?

Originally Posted by ForteNightshade

Hence why I purposely said "and only occasionally weaved in a couple oGCDs" because that's how healing currently works. You primarily DPS and weave in a couple oGCDs every once in a while.

You can give healers a thousand different ways to heal. It doesn't mean a thing if they never have to use half of them, which was the whole point.

Do you not think having so many methods to heal opens up encounter damage paradigms?

Originally Posted by Kabooa

Do you not think having so many methods to heal opens up encounter damage paradigms?

Unfortunately, there's only so much they can do with that. If they upped outgoing damage significantly enough to really make experienced Healers have to spend most of their time healing, less experienced ones would probably be destroyed. And currently we have basically no evidence that encounter design is changing significantly. It's a huge IF, whereas the changes we have now are knowns.

Originally Posted by ForteNightshade

Considering healers already have too many options at their disposal and nothing changed? No, I don't. I would welcome being wrong but the precedence has long been set and I don't foresee them changing it.

That's fair. It really all hangs on whether or not SE decides to change damage patterns now.