Quote Originally Posted by Epowerj View Post
As a SCH main who started at the tail end of Stormblood, I only briefly got to experience the old SCH kit, and am mostly familiar with the current state of healers.

I still see a decent amount of meaningful decision making in my current SCH gameplay. For me, this comes from all the different healing options I have:
When the tank takes some damage I'll slap them with an Adlo because the shields will give some time for my fairy to top them up, but if it's a DPS, I'll probably just put a quick Physick on them since they probably wont take more damage for a while.
When the tank is taking continuous heavy hits, I have the choice of giving them Excog, giving me some time to do damage until it triggers, or I could do Fey Union to apply some powerful regen for a while, maybe coupled with an Adlo.
When there's some party-wide damage coming up, I can precast Succor and Sacred Soil to get some shields going, or I could use Fey Illumination and then Fey Blessing and maybe that will be enough.

I could keep going, but I think you get the point - there's still a ton of split-second decision making going on when I play healer. All healers have a large and intricate kit of spells that are all better or worse in different situations, and part of getting good as a healer player is learning when to use which spells.
Your mention of split-second decision doesn't exist or shows a lack of knowledge/skill. Or it's the first week of a newly released content and the people with you stand in every aoe, forcing you to use GCDs for healing.

As players optimize their gameplay GCDs are almost exclusively used for the same dps button, much less the "should not exist anymore" physick spell. Succor/Adlo might get uses when the boss disappears or for very specific occasions but other than that it's full on broil spam.

In fact, we have so many oGCD heals than unless a DPS teases you and stays in every aoe, you'll just broil/glare/malefic, while using your oGCD heal for when the big damage comes up.