A summary of healer issues

[Morningstar1337]

What about keeping the party alive and DPSing? Right now, each healer approaches these in virtually the same way when played optimally: Your GCD is for DPS unless absolutely necessary and your OGCD is for healing so that you can continue to DPS with your GCD. Why don't we experiment with different ways to approach this? What about a healer who's GCD is for healing only and their OGCD is for DPS? They don't have a GCD Glare/Broil/Malefic, but OGCD sources of damage only? It's not like they'll ever be synched down to level 1, even if you enter the weakest FATES in the game, so you can balance them around having their damage by level 4 or 6 or something. Make a healer who throws GCD DPS onto their allies to deliver so they don't have to--a healer for the players that don't want to DPS directly and can instead use their GCDs to support the party.

I'd say it is rather novel, and it would certainly make use of the tendency to not start newer jobs at Level 1 (if they didn't then there is the issue of not being able to level on your own since you're stuck with a healing spell)