What's your preferred change?

[Urthdigger]

For starters, I want the design to reflect how the game is actually played. To make a long story short there will ALWAYS be significant downtime where you're DPSing unless they fundamentally redesign combat in this game from the ground up. Straight up, with the ways encounter, gearing, and stats are designed there is no way around this. So embrace it, realize that DPS is as much a part of our play as it is for tanks and make combat more interesting.

Now, beyond that I'd also say give us more ways to contribute, and ideally I'd wrap the two together. Sage is actually a step in the right direction with DPS spells providing passive healing, but ideally I'd go with something similar: Allow our DPS during downtime to contribute meaningfully to our support role. It could be something simple like DPS actions contributing to fairy gauge or lilies, or something a bit more complicated like having combos for our spells with the finisher granting a party-wide buff.

Recognize that we'll spend a fair amount of our time DPSing especially as player skill and gear rises, but wrap that into the core support mentality.

[BooPoo]

For starters, I want the design to reflect how the game is actually played. To make a long story short there will ALWAYS be significant downtime where you're DPSing unless they fundamentally redesign combat in this game from the ground up. Straight up, with the ways encounter, gearing, and stats are designed there is no way around this. So embrace it, realize that DPS is as much a part of our play as it is for tanks and make combat more interesting.

Now, beyond that I'd also say give us more ways to contribute, and ideally I'd wrap the two together. Sage is actually a step in the right direction with DPS spells providing passive healing, but ideally I'd go with something similar: Allow our DPS during downtime to contribute meaningfully to our support role. It could be something simple like DPS actions contributing to fairy gauge or lilies, or something a bit more complicated like having combos for our spells with the finisher granting a party-wide buff.

Recognize that we'll spend a fair amount of our time DPSing especially as player skill and gear rises, but wrap that into the core support mentality.

I also have something in mind for the players who religiously hate DPSing as a healer. We can go further with the buff system AST currently has, and have a few healer whos damage contrib came from themselves (Sage etc.) and a few others that don't do complex damage rotation but buff teammates significantly.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-healer-issues

^ this first post (regularly updated) summaries almost everything.

[Calysto]

It could be something simple like DPS actions contributing to fairy gauge or lilies, or something a bit more complicated like having combos for our spells with the finisher granting a party-wide buff.

While not tied to dps, SCH had a freecure with sacred soil, and in SB "quickened aetherflow". they got rid of that because "reasons" ?
I think all that's left is freecure and enhanced benefic.

I'd go with 4 or 5 ; make it busier and most importantly fun.

[LaylaAlder]

There was a fake leaker a while back that said WHM was getting a Water → Water2 → Banish that sounded like it was supposed to be an OGCD attack. I'm actually kind of fond of it as a concept, as I like the idea of playing into the Land-Sea-Sky nature of the early druid-style theming, and having another OGCD attack to weave in more often when I don't have any heals that need to go out would be nice.

[Dyvid]

Change the devs mindset from pure healer to healer/support.

[MellowMink]

I enjoy playing as a green DPS, which the game currently incentivizes, so I wish that I had more attack variety for a majority of the fights. Limiting attack options doesn't alone translate to the player attacking less; it just means their attacking will become way more repetitive and boring. Even if they raise healing requirements for the next expansion's contents, that still won't retroactively fix the first 80 levels of still actively played content.

[LaylaAlder]

My preferred change is pretty simple, honestly.

Medica II learned between level 47 and 49 instead of at 50. Benediction can stay 50, I'm fine with that. But really - Medica II between 47 and 49 for when I sync. That's all I ask.

[Hurrican]

1 or 2 additional DPS spells would be nice, but no more
Please make more Tumult mechanics. Clutch healing feels so good

[hynaku]

Remove all there dps skills in dungeons so they can focus on healing. Reason keep seeing healers only doing dps and not healing anyone.