How would you address Button Bloat on healers?

[P0W3RK1D]

Honestly? BLU had a handful of heals and was so much more fun to play. Just remove/merge a ton of healing spells, replace with dps skills. Problem solved.
Is this how my ideal healer looks? No. But I'll take that over the current implementation any day of the week.

I agree. Right now i feel like Blue Mage is the Funnest healer in the game, and the sad thing is it cant even do any current content or MSQ because its 20 lvs under the cap.
but compared to the other healers it only 5-7 healing abilities, and yet it has so much freedom of build and so many support options (something that all the other healers dont have) that it could legit be a healer job and i would probly pick it every time over the other healers.

[Tharnor]

Scholar:

Merge Whispering Dawn and Fey Illumination into other skills.

Replace summon Eos/Selene with Summon Fairy and have that auto change to summon seraph in the proper situations.

Starter heal needs to just go. It was smart design back when it was introduced but goes completely contrary to how the majority of healing is done. Just trait upgrade it to adlo. If the low skill/effort scholars have problems, remove the cooldown on emergency tactics.

Remove the Aetherflow skill and make our stacks generate over time. Maybe gain mana every time one aetherflow is generated.

That is six buttons right that would be an easy ask.

While they are looking at the problem make Fey Illumination and Dissipation work with abilities. I cannot think of the last time I used either for the extra healing outside of niche circumstances. I understand Dissipation is suppose to be an emergency skill. But this means nothing when the skills you want to be using in the emergency are not buffed.