Benchmark trailer

[Liam_Harper]

Yoshi P himself said the reason scholar lost all its dot glory was because they were leaving their co healer which was whm or Astro to do all the healing while they dps and just used faerie skills.

This is the exact situation with WHM now. If I play AST in an organized group, or I'm playing WHM with an AST friend, the AST takes the bulk of the healing. It's simple math. AST oGCD's are free and if a GCD heal is needed the WHM loses 300 potency but the AST only loses 250 and can probably proc a Horo Helios or add a Neutral sect on top. The WHM loses the party raid dps by trying to heal. Trimming their dps kit did nothing. They shouldn't be healing (unless it's movement/spare lilies or their handful of free oGCD's in their limited weave spots), it's actually bad.

This is just how ff14 is designed. It's very scripted, therefore there's a lot more mathematical calculation regarding potency and GCD efficiency. Addressing a healers dps taxes for using their toolkit compared to other healers is how you fix one healer leaving the bulk of the healing to another, not cutting their toolkit further.

The devs wanting us to heal more changes nothing in this. If you force a good player to use 50+ GCD heals in a fight, their group is still going to plan mitigation and the healer will map their heals efficiently as they learn the fight, then use the spare GCD's on damage. Even solo heal e12s kills manage to fit in 100+ casts of dps abilities.

Decent players do not prioritize dps over keeping the party alive just because they have more buttons. The bad healers who do, will do so regardless of whether they have 1 button or 5. Taking toys away from the decent players won't fix the bad ones.