What if, instead of busting the tank, bosses executed healers?

[wereotter]

Every tank has something that can be used to protect a healer. Blackest Knight, Heart of Stone, Nascent Glint, Cover/Intervention. Giving mechanics to bosses that will bust healers, especially in dungeons, would give more of a use to those skills.

I feel like they came SO close to this in Aumorot, but then chickened out with those dark sprites that tether to the healers. They make the healer receive less healing... this would have made more sense to either be a tether that makes the healer output less healing so that the party would have to focus that enemy down, or should have tethered to the tank to either force greater mitigation or inexperienced tanks to pull smaller.

[Lucy_Pyre]

Every tank has something that can be used to protect a healer. Blackest Knight, Heart of Stone, Nascent Glint, Cover/Intervention. Giving mechanics to bosses that will bust healers, especially in dungeons, would give more of a use to those skills.

I feel like they came SO close to this in Aumorot, but then chickened out with those dark sprites that tether to the healers. They make the healer receive less healing... this would have made more sense to either be a tether that makes the healer output less healing so that the party would have to focus that enemy down, or should have tethered to the tank to either force greater mitigation or inexperienced tanks to pull smaller.

TBN and Nascent Flash don't have enough use in dungeons already? Are we playing the same game?

[Vyrerus]

It'd be cool, but it'd probably freak newbie healers out, especially if it required the boss to turn and move into melee range. Just imagine having your healer panic and run away, as so many people are wont to do when the boss moves towards them, heh.

[Burmecia]

If SE wanted to force healers to heal (which they hate, last time I heard) just make more use of that idea which was in Shinryu EX; add thing appears, heal it to full or it explodes or something.

[RagingStallion]

What about women who play tanks? Where is THEIR sympathy? I know you're a troll, but I mightaswell have fun with it.

Are you trying to imply that gamers should care about minorities!?

[Goji1639]

I mean, tanks have legit DPS rotations to keep them occupied at least. Healers are the ones always complaining they're bored and have nothing to do, so I'd say a mechanic that requires awareness from the healer would get the best reception.

[wereotter]

TBN and Nascent Flash don't have enough use in dungeons already? Are we playing the same game?

I'm not saying they don't have a use. I said more use. You can use Heart of Stone in a dungeon as well. The only one that rarely gets any use in a dungeon are the paladin skills. My point is that this would make the usage of them more interesting since you're not just putting them on yourself.

[Ultimatecalibur]

TBN and Nascent Flash don't have enough use in dungeons already? Are we playing the same game?

They get used for self-mitigation/self-healing and not protection of others. If things were properly designed NF would be on cooldown, more often than not, because of Raw Intuition use rather than because a warrior wants self healing.

It'd be cool, but it'd probably freak newbie healers out, especially if it required the boss to turn and move into melee range. Just imagine having your healer panic and run away, as so many people are wont to do when the boss moves towards them, heh.

A vast number of tank busters are actually ranged and do not care about facing.

[ClickOnce]

This should only be in content that is extreme+. Your common dungeon tank aren't capable of using interject or stun on one mob. Heck many of them don't even seem to know what a party mitigation is for making the healers job easier. Can't add any mechanics to dungeons since that would require people who mainly run dungeons to do more than exist.

[Puremallace]

Over the years I have seen multiple MMO developers asked this question of why does the boss go after the tank and not the healer and the answer has always been the same.

"Why do we have orcs and elves!??!? because we can. It would not be any fun if the boss was actually smart and just ignored the tanks the entire fight"

FF14 also has mechanics you do not even realize that very often target the healer. All those stack mechanics with big yellow arrows?? That stuff is Square trying to change up the same old formula.