Quote Originally Posted by Mortex View Post
It’s more or less the side dmg healer vs pure healer here in ff 14. I mean in the early ARR days no healer did dmg. That changed hard when people did twintania and healer dmg effectively skipped a lot of mechanics. The problem is people like to compare ff 14 too wow for whatever dumb reason but we both know that wows fight design has way more consistent dmg that pulses throughout the entire fight we’re in comparison ff 14 has specific timings for some bosses we’re the dmg spikes but expect also some dots abilities it’s not consistent dmg.
I remember always trying to do damage even back in ARR. Started in 2.3 when that shift was coming into fruit. Healers weren’t expected to do damage but raiders realized how significant it really was and started trying to work to maintain it. Scholar was the better class at doing so by far so it was really them that carried the idea onto other healers. Hell it’s where the idea of main/off healer came from. Back then WHM had better tools for burst healing non-tank classes while Scholar’s main advantage came from most of their actions working in Cleric Stance without any loss, only really needing to swap for shields (which still had issues). The go-to meta in casual content was “Work on DoT uptime first, add in filler once you’re comfortable”.