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    Red Mage Lv 100
    Healers are all meant to be able to do all content, so shield healers and pure healers will both be able to clear duties solo and together in trial, regardless of the possibility of getting double shield and double heals, but only high-end content is tuned for 1 heal and 1 shield.

    From what I can see, the only separation between the two is one is: on-demand shields on the GCD (shield healers) with weaker on-demand heals, whereas the other is on-demand heals on the GCD (pure healers) but no on-demand shields. oGCDs are equalized more or less in effective potency with slight nuances between each healer.

    It sorta makes sense, having too many shields on a shield healer means you can stack them and ignore mechanics, which is something game devs want to avoid.
    On the alternative side, shield healers having shields that can't stack but also having little to no way of recovering raw hp means if you screw up your shielding at one point or because the DPS eats heavy dmg, there's no way to recover, other than physick-level heal spam. This issue is largely mitigated by having oGCD heals, even if they are somewhat weak or are regen.

    Finally, the third thing - probably if both shield healers have a lot of shields that can't stack in each individual kit, but can stack with other healer's kits, it might make them more meta-comp than 1 pure healer & 1 shield healer. Though... that may change based on encounter design the next expansion. They are... giving a lot more mobility focus to almost every job. Either raidwides are going to be more heavier / frequent that necessitates dodging avoidable AoEs, or there will be more mechanically heavy fights that require movement, which makes it a lot easier to mess up and require frequent healing bursts.

    I'm really hoping that SCH combat-peloton/mitigation and SGE getting a 45 sec dash is to account for this since only the 'shield' healers are getting some form of mobility, which implies the pure-healers have another job maybe [?]

    Hopefully I'm not being Copium.
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    Last edited by AnotherPerson; 09-19-2021 at 11:25 AM.