A summary of healer issues

[TheDustyOne]

I disagree with that take on healing.

It's one thing to argue that healers should DPS when they're not healing and that their DPS kits should be more involved than one-button spam. That, I agree with. It's quite another to treat healers actually pushing a healing button for a GCD as some sort of burden that the game needs to design around. That's precisely the interesting question: is the party's continued DPS best served by me throwing another stone or by me casting a heal?

I might even go further and say that WHM shows how not to "refund damage." The goal should be to reward thoughtful, necessary use of an ability, à la SGE's Eukrasian Diagnosis or DRK's Blackest Night. Finding an optimization for feeding the Blood Lily when everyone is at full health just feels silly.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, I probably should've added that such refunds should be time and/or resource gated like lilies currently are, it sounds stupid that someone merely spamming cure and regen would be casting near back-to-back Misery just because they got rewarded for bad spamming. I very much agree with you that it should reward thoughtful healing rather than just spamming heals.

As for finding optimizations like feeding Blood Lily, I don't think that's a major issue and would depend on how they handle refund mechanics. I'd rather take ForsakenRoe's position of just accepting that some people are going to get creative and find interesting ways to take advantage of it. Considering how much the skill ceiling has caved over the last few years, a few people here would probably welcome it. Hell, feeding the Blood Lily during downtime is something I like about current White Mage.