Quote Originally Posted by D6Damager View Post
I don't agree that FFXIV healers are boring. Everyone talks about 'perfect' play with perfect tanks and dps and there's nothing to do. I don't see this perfect gameplay hardly ever.

One thing we know from devs, is that Healers will never out damage the other roles. So, if they gave us 1-2-3 dps button combo plus 1 or 2 ogcd dmg buttons (doesn't really matter if any of this is tied to a gauge or not)... our damage would still be the same and now the job is just 'busier' to accomplish the same thing. And that's even if they gave us somethin resembling a rotation. What I could see them more likely doing is getting rid of all healer dots and giving two lower potency nukes that equal the same thing. There's your 'engagement' you get to press 3 buttons instead of 2.

Honestly, why is 211111111 less engaging than 123123123012123123120? You're just pressing buttons and not even looking at your hotbar either way.

Then, because we have a "dps rotation" somebody takes avoidable dmg and we have to interrupt our dps to heal thus ruining our dps even further. This is akin to the complaints GNB have regarding trying to move the boss during their burst window. Even when AST had decent cards, nobody wanted to play the "busy healer" WHM still had better representation back then not because it was better, but because it was easier. Even today, it is the most played healer next SGE despite most healers agreeing it has the most issues.
First of all, I don't see why with the plethora of OGCD heals, with all of the regens, and shields that we have on hand- it should hardly make a healer pause if someone takes occasional avoidable damage.

Secondly, I haven't seen stress on perfect play, on the contrary the discussion has been on all levels of play. if it was on perfect levels of play I'd be one of the first people to worry, i'd probably the first one to get kicked out of a perfect group!

Finally, we don't necessarily need a combo. That doesn't mean that there aren't other options , whether it is dots, or procs, or additional OGCD damage buttons, or buffs, or DPS or longer CDs... so why close our minds and say that nothing can be done for only the healer jobs? Interestingly enough they were very creative when it came for PVP and the healers, i don't see why it can't so in PVE as well.