A summary of healer issues

[Jonathan_Clover]

After being a longtime lurker of the Healer subsection of the forums(5.1 is when my healing journey officially began, so not as long as many of the posters I've come to respect here have healed), I want to officially give my 2 Gil in support to the OP.

I find it absolutely ridiculous(and more than a little frustrating) that the devs think that literal 1 button spam in combat is okay, while also keeping the overall damage low enough in daily content(and even some Savage fights from what I've heard, my only Savage experience is E5S) where you hardly ever need to heal. I feel like it shows a complete lack of understanding of how the Role is played at all, and it really just baffles me. Like, how could they not think when testing 5.x healers(and soon to be 6.x) that pressing 1 button 12 times, and then pressing button 2 once every 30 seconds is okay.

At this point I don't feel like a healer, I feel like a gimped DPS that also is a unpaid babysitter.

[AikenDrum]

it's because the decision to make it 111111111 wasn't made by a job designer - their reasoning wasn't that they think dpsing on a healer should be easy, or that people wont be able to handle more buttons - no, it had nothing to do with gameplay reasons: their reasoning was that giving more dps buttons will lead to healer harassment. basically healers get 1111111 for same reason we aren't allowed to use dps meters - until this changes i don't think more testing or more job designers gonna fix anything

[Jonathan_Clover]

That's just silly. Job design shouldn't be dictated by hypothetical, social "what-ifs."
If anything, you'd think it be LESS "harassment" because you have more on your plate, and therefore more to juggle.

If people genuinely think being asked to use their full kit(which includes damage spells, a whopping 2 of them!) is harassment, then I'm concerned.