Why is the healer class basically a one spell dps class?

[Ultimatecalibur]

Not counting all death effects and some other BLU specific things, that's basically how BLU Healer mimic plays.
You have Pom Cure with short cast time, after which you can weave your Primals (OGCD damage abilities on various cooldowns) in. You have Gobskin which is ~20% hp party shield without any healing component, so it's a strict mitigation. There's Exuviation (Cure 3 + Esuna)/Stotram (off-brand Medica), Angel Snack which is your busted 2 minutes CD which is *just* super charged off-brand Medica 2. And then there's also White Wind, which in a lot of situations is AoE Benediction (Ahem). No OGCD heals whatsoever, and as someone who has cleared all BLU content, which includes Synced/NoEcho Coils, AlexSavage and OmegaSavage i'd say they are not needed.

A few things to note:

• Pom Cure is roughly the same potency as Cure 1
• Gobskin generates roughly the same strength shield as Succor without the healing component
• Exuviation is the same strength as Medica with Cure 3's AoE
• Stotram is identical to Medica
• Angel's Snack is double the strength of Medica II but can only be used once every 2 minutes
• White Wind is one of the single most expensive power heals in the game and it will drain your MP if you rely to heavily on it and gets weaker the lower your own hp is.
• Angel Whisper is limited to once every 5 minutes.

I wonder if the limits on Angel's Snack, White Wind and Angel Whisper a part of what allows for Healer BLU to be much more engaging.

And then you get the odd player who notes that BLU has a pretty fun system and gee whiz maybe it would be fun if more jobs worked this way. BLU might not be practical, but it definitely is fun. Maybe we should start by optimizing fun first?

Part of what allows BLU to be fun is that it is 10 levels behind and can not be used for progression and party finder content. Make it level 80 and allow it to participate in Savage and players will start optimizing the fun out of it.