Quote Originally Posted by Brandedblade View Post
You are contributing about 800-1k dps to the group with those cards and buffs when playing them properly. That's not a small amount. And considering the upcoming update to Minor Arcana, SE is clearly making efforts to streamline the system. If you want to be doing that much less damage then it's on you.

As for the "diverting time away from dps and healing." Did you forget about the cast times on Malefic, Gravity, and Benefic I? Aspected Benefic and Combust being instant? The Lightspeed cooldown giving you double weaving space on everything else.? Even the controller gives you the ability the hard target one thing then soft target your party members to heal/buff them.
I think your DPS figure is a bit inflated and assumes we're able to click every single thing as it pops, which we all know doesn't happen when you're dodging mechs and healing.

Even so, in order to use those personal DPS spells, I have to change targets yet again to target the mob, then re-target tank and/or anyone else who needs healing, all in addition to switching targets for each individual card buff. There is no other job in FFXIV which has to engage in so much target changing in order to "perform" properly. I don't mind this healer being super-busy compared to the others (it always has been) -- I just want it to matter more. I don't think that's an unreasonable viewpoint.