Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
Honestly, as someone coming from WoW which features(d)? a "pure healer" approach:
I think that is less a problem of parsers and more of a problem with how absurdly obsessed the FF-XIV community is with healers DPS.

I'm all for filling downtime etc but at times I find the fact that healers seem to define themselves by being a green 1 button mashing DPS a wee bit disturbing.

If it were up to me, I'd still shift the design towards even more healing and less downtime because, if you ask me: there is nothing more boring than mashing the glare button +100x during a boss pull b/c the boss can't seem to be arsed to do some damage to the raid.
FFXIV community is obsessed with healers doing DPS because all fights are predictable where there is a lot of down time where heals simply are not needed. SE says they want healers to be more heal focused but then we are given dungeons where healers don't need to heal half the time. All the fights are scripted so once you learn the fight ,you know whats coming next with the most randomness being boss is either gonna go with a "X" style attack or a "+" style attack.