Just remove healers.

[Silverbane]

I have all healers at 90, and I can confirm that sage does spam one button over and over again

All you can confirm is that you spam one button.
That proves nothing except that you don't know any better.

[NemuNemu14]

All you can confirm is that you spam one button.
That proves nothing except that you don't know any better.

You replying so fast in this thread also confirms that you have absolutely no life.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Do the numbers, smart boy. Dyskrasia is really lethal on large groups. You can do numbers, right? Or do you just take The Balance and Icy Veins on blind faith?

Or better yet, TRY IT. It works for Art of War, too.

Honestly, you people lack both imagination and math skills, don't you?

Jokes on you, if it's DF contents I will almost always outDPS majority of pug DPSes as an ASTROLOGIAN in trash pulls. Even more so with other healers. But that's not because I'm -that good-. It just tells me the average DF folks I encounter are just not pressing buttons constantly & that is fine. This however, rarely happens if I run DFs with my DPS main friends or static folks who I knew personally to put in effort with what they're playing.

I think you're the one who had too much faith in your 'trusted good DPS'

[MintnHoney]

You people are still trying to talk to FFXIV's version of Chris-chan?

[Silverbane]

You replying so fast in this thread also confirms that you have absolutely no life.

I was in the middle of an MSQ Duty Roulette. Now I'm waiting for the queue to pop.

[NemuNemu14]

You people are still trying to talk to FFXIV's version of Chris-chan?

No wonder all of their posts sounded so familiar

[ForteNightshade]

Wow, it's like you don't even realize that Dyskrasia and Dyskrasia II (which are DPS gains over everything but Phlegma when you can hit two or more targets) even exist ... just like that idiot Sage I saw spamming Dosis into a pack of trash mobs, when he could have been putting the DPS to shame spamming Dyskrasia instead.

Yes, because spamming the AoE equivalent makes sense a difference. How much of Dyskrasia II do you spam in actual challenging content? Only in Dragonsong, and it's only relevant in one phase out of seven. Huh. For such compelling gameplay, you sure don't use it. Almost like the difference between spamming Dosis III and Dyskrasia II is non-existent.

How about you? Do you run Sage much? Do you burn down groups of trash mobs (and ads, sometimes) using Dyskrasia when you do? If not, why not? Afraid to stand in the thick of it? If so, don't worry, a fundamental unreality of FFXIV is that if the tank does his job, you can stick a flaming poker up a mobs butt while laughing in their face (if you're flexible enough LOL) and they'll still ignore you in favor of the tank. Most mobs don't care who's killing them, they just hate tanks!

This entire argument is nothing more than a sad strawman. Yes, I spam Dyskrasia in AoE situations. It doesn't suddenly make healer gameplay any more engaging because you're trading one boring button for another. The notion that people simply don't understand how healer DPS functions, and that's why they find it boring, laughably misses the point so much I have to assume you're trolling. Looking people up on the Lodestone doesn't amount to much. They can be using alts for one reason or another, and frankly, leveling a job in this game isn't much of an accomplishment. Nevertheless, if credentials is what you want, you're welcome to look up Cassandra/Cactuar on certain websites. I'll hazard a guess I have far more than you.

Have you ever out-parsed good DPS on a trash pull? If not, you're a disgrace to SGE, because if you understood all the ramifications of your kit, you typically would.

No, you wouldn't. Good DPS burst for significantly more than healers. Either you aren't playing with good DPS players or you're assuming they aren't good when in reality they're conversing their kit for the upcoming boss or a larger pack. Assuming all things equal, if you put a DRG with everything ready to go against SGE in a ten pull pack. That DRG will outshine you by a mile.

[ThorneDynasty]

"Oh but if you only press only 1-1-1... you must be really shitty player not using your AOE :smugface:" is such a disingenuous nonsense it should be pretty clear this is a troll.

Besides do you know what I do with half the jobs? Cycle to a different hotbar in multi-target situations. So I am still just hitting 1-1-1...

[Troxbark]

No, you're just annoying.

[Ransu]

- Every single fight this tier has been solo healed in i580 crafted gear. Yes, even P4S.
- P1S and P2S have been cleared with only tanks. Clearing with DPS and Tank would be even easier.

This is the highest level content excluding Ultimate. Anything below that you don't need a healer whatsoever. Dungeons? Even DRK has cleared all of them with three DPS. EX? They were killed the first week of Endwalker without healers. At the current junction, healers only exist for inexperienced players not to struggle, and two healers are only taken into Savage at the midcore level or higher because of FFlogs enforcing it. In order to parse on the standard ranking, you need a 2/2/4. comp Were that to ever change, every midcore group and above would eventually be running five DPS.

With all that said, do I think healers should be removed? No. There is clearly a large enough portion of the playerbase that enjoys the style of gameplay they're supposed fulfill. The issue is the dev team is so afraid little Timmy or Sally might struggle, they continue to design everything around the lowest common denominator. Not your average raider who, while lacking experience, is still a decent play; a green parser if you will. No, it's the person who can barely handle simple mechanics and usually dies once a pull. That's who they're catering content to. And it's why healing suffers so much in this game. If you're average, you're already playing above expectation.

Then maybe they should solve the real problem? Tanks defensive skills should have nothing but damage mitigation tools, not a bunch of self healing tools.