Famitsu Interview: Tuning encounters for healing

[Sovasin]

I don't think it's true that healers are just doing 2 1 1 1 1 1. E12S P1 shows that SE is capable of designing a fight that demands lots of oGCDs and some GCD heals. I think E11S was pretty good too. A lot of the people complaining in this thread about healers just pressing one button have not even healed this tier so I have no idea where they get their opinions from. However I think that the CPM between both healers is skewed towards AST as their oGCDs are free and therefore first in priority. Another issue is that the increase in defense and vitality from ilvl is very strong and makes healing a lot easier. People entering E12S P1 today with high piety sets would not find healing it to be a major challenge outside of maybe the Diamond Dust knockback compared to people who entered at minimum ilvl and it isn't fair to describe healing as spamming one button when a lot more is required of you when undergeared. The issue then is not healing but gear advantage making healing redundant.

Alternatively move actions like Addle back to healers so we have more responsibility when it comes to mitigation. It's frustrating how healing is so reliant on party mitigation when that responsibility could be shifted to healers to make the role more engaging.