Developers : Healer design mentality needs to change

[Absurdity]

Pretty much agreed with "there's too much in the kit". Astrologian is a good example of this, for a while at the start of this expansion the kit was overloaded because up until the later part of savage raiding, you didn't even need half the buttons. No-one ever spams Benefic 1 for a B2 crit proc. People barely use B2 as it is because you can GCD loop on Malefic.

At the start of the expansion AST was probably the only job where it felt justified that it had so many abilities in it's kit, the healing was so laughably weak that you actually needed all of them. Not that it was super difficult but you actually needed to put in some work compared to WHM or SCH and used most of those abilities... except Benefic 1 because that thing is simply obsolete.

The further we got into the expansion the less this was the case as AST got several adjustments and we all know what the situation is now.

[Maltothoris]

This highlights another problem in that the number of instances where it is healing intensive can be counted on one hand, two hands at most. Even in those fights they are kinda spread out. In TEA, p1 and p2 are pretty healing intensive but after that, p3 and p4 are rather healing with the exception of the enrage before perfect alex. In E12s, you got the shiva into titan back to back and the enrage part in E12s p2 but even then once you got everything mapped, it's much easier and you can sneak a few more gcds for damage. Of course this also has to do with gear as well.

Heavensward was still the start of this. I remember when a good sch could have their fairy do about 60 percent of their healing but like others have said, it really started to pick up in stormblood.

[LisSquid]

I just want more interesting play. Less healing buttons and more utility buttons, and hell yes I want more dps buttons. Even doing LoTA on a dps is more fun than doing shb leveling dungeons on a healer now. Content that should sync you down enough to keep its bite through this expansion cycle. Hearing "Just do savage/extreme" is insulting when healing should be fun at all levels of play. Savage and EX only make up so much content and you're looking at a giant mound of glare spam for the rest. Something has got to give.