Quote Originally Posted by QooEr View Post
i honestly agree about the abundance of ogcd heals mudding down the experience. Not only are ogcds plentiful and strong, but the cooldowns are also super short. If i have a thoughtless free heal for every attack, theres nothing to plan anymore. if clearing fights without using gcds heals felt rewarding before, now it feels expected.
I don't see what's thoughtless about oGCD's compared to GCD's. You talk about a free heal for every attack and nothing to plan, or having short cooldowns when GCD heals have no cooldown and are always there for every attack, bar running out of mana entirely.

oGCD's have limits and if you mistime your Earthy Star or Asylum, waste your Bene and Tetra and sudden danger happens, you turn to GCD's. Your oGCD's are the ones you plan, space out and utilize well. Medica II you simply press when a raidwide happens or Regen you simply apply to the tank whenever and let it do it's thing. This is why high end healers utilize oGCD's well and inexperienced healers spam GCD's.
What we need is more frequent damage, so the toolkit is stretched a bit more and tested. We don't need a slow brainless 2.5 sec cast spam gameplay.