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

[Dearche]

5x8 yeah. KB+M has the benefit of more flexibility though. Since mouse buttons exists and there’s usually enough keyboard room to be met with comfort, whereas with controller it’s moreso trying to jumble up everything together between the bumpers, but irregardless i don’t see how you could run out of room on a keyboard and mouse for skills since healers don’t really have that much to begin with. Mostly because you can take out a few like cure 1,benefic 1 etc.

Oh no, definitely KB+M is far more flexible and capable of handling more buttons. I'm not denying that. I was just trying to state that the gamepad actually has a decent default configuration, something that isn't really that good on KB+M. Once you start going past 15 skills, you NEED to do an overhaul of the controls, or else you'll be mouse clicking on a third of your skills.

And you know, it's sad that cure 1 and its equivalents are so useless nowadays. Back in ARR, physic was my most used heal spell by far, because you couldn't afford to use the more expensive heals too often or else risk running out of MP for the big heal moments.