A interesting content idea for healers!

[Cheezebell]

Another idea I really like is adding in more frequent healing procs, like how sometimes cure will proc a freecure to get you to use Cure II, but make actual healing "combos" if that makes sense? I feel like that could make healing more fun and varied, action-wise. I dunno how everyone else feels about that though.

[althenawhm]

"Just wait for Shadowbringers to be released to see if you like having 2 buttons for DPS!"
No thank you, I've run Sastasha before. I already know I hate it.

[StarRosie]

I am Tank and I'm happy with our changings? There is nothing what I can consider as "sky is falling". It's better to wait the release anyway.

I've seen a few folks throwing a fit that is akin to when SE did the right thing and killed Cleric Stance. "My stance dancing!" But that's the most extreme I've seen it get.

[Darkplanet]

Happens in fights like Shinryu. Pretty sure healers will have more to do in 5,0
Boss AOE Spam Eleganza Extravaganza

Yea Shinryu ex had a nice healer heal as dps check. But yea I’m all for going in this direction

It would be interesting to see raise used in a more mechanic sense rather then mistake sense as well

[Halivel]

I've seen a few folks throwing a fit that is akin to when SE did the right thing and killed Cleric Stance. "My stance dancing!" But that's the most extreme I've seen it get.

Oh well, saw it too. Can't really get it, because... there was not any real stance dancing, to be quite honest. If your party is okay, you will be in dps stance 99.9% of the time (except general dungeons under big pulls). If "being in dps stance" = "stance dancing" then I'm even more glad they finally removed it.

[Inuk9]

Just do more damage in content (both ranfom and predictable damage) so healers wont have time for dps or they will have to be creative/good to do DPS.

[Vahlnir]

How about we, you know, wait to play healers in 5.0, instead of thinking about possible solutions to hypothetical problems about changes that no one, outside of the media tour, has had a chance to actually play?

Sorry, this sort of logical thinking is not allowed 'round these here parts.

[Reiryuu]

Sorry, this sort of logical thinking is not allowed 'round these here parts.

Pre-Stormblood: "Shut up, you haven't played it yet."
Stormblood: "Shut up, you're not 70 yet."
Level 70: "Shut up, raid tiers aren't out yet."
Raid Tiers: "Well, maybe they'll make adjustments."

Next expansion (Repeat above)

[frostmagemari]

That sounds like the old 'healing spells do damage to undead trick' which has been a part of the FF series since.. well... the beginning I think. It was even a thing back in FFXI (as it is throughout most earlier FF games), and due to a bug that occured where the calculation used to determine how much damage they would do glitched and did far far more damage than it was supposed to, players being what they are quickly discovered this bug and exploited it for it was worth (using it to almost instant-kill certain undead bosses and NMs) - the bug was not only fixed SE determined that it was an unauthorised exploit and so mass-banned players that had used the exploit. It became a rather unpleasant business all round when it was all said and done.
It seems SE want to avoid a repeat of this whole sordid affair so thus that trick was all but made utterly useless here. As FFXIV does not have any kind of elemental damage any more (with the exception of Eureka) it is a moot point anyway.

Y'know.. i gotta wonder how they rationalized it was an exploit though. Healing being damaging to undead has been around forever, and if i recall correctly, you could cast heals on any enemy mob if you actually wanted to. It seems like a natural attempt to use curative magic against undead enemies, and how was the player-base to know it was an exploit? To any rational person, it would seem like a gameplay feature they didn't balance properly.

Not much else to say on the main topic.. just found this interesting.

[Powercow]

Pre-Stormblood: "Shut up, you haven't played it yet."
Stormblood: "Shut up, you're not 70 yet."
Level 70: "Shut up, raid tiers aren't out yet."
Raid Tiers: "Well, maybe they'll make adjustments."

Next expansion (Repeat above)

Pfft, feedback is for when it's too late to change anything, not before! Don't you know that!?

You're supposed to wait until after the crash and THEN apply the brakes!

You're worried about that iceberg up ahead? Ah it's probably nothing guys, no need to change course, everything will work out fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.