Hello Yoshi-P

[Saefinn]

I DEFINITELY get the idea of wanting to heal more. That seems fairly ideal for a role called...healer. However, it's unrealistic at this point (IMO) and I feel like requesting it is too easy for SE to ignore. Increasing the amount of healing required is going to be a HUGE undertaking including revamping most encounters and trying to rebalance all of the different abilities.

That's why generally people lean towards a more interesting DPS kit. They can fairly easily make a DPS rotation do an average of whatever Glare/Dia would do in the same number of button presses. Honestly, I'd rather have something "different", namely having the healers lean into a "support" role. I like the idea of indirect DPS like AST's cards and I feel like giving healers more abilities to increase the damage of other players would make the role distinct while also giving them more to do. I would say WHM/SGE would get a bigger DPS kit and SCH/AST would be focused on support more.

But, it seems unlikely anything would change unfortunately.

Oh I agree, it's unrealistic at this point, because making meaningful changes in that respect would be a monumental job.

The stance I take is that they should:
- Give us more to do in our downtime IE: DPS because the game isn't designed to value anything else we could be doing.
- Increase the healing requirement in a meaningful way for future content.

But it is unlikely to change because they've pretty much said as much. But if there is any optimism it's that they were the same way with MCH and MNK and eventually they got positive reworks. That said, I'm not holding onto any such optimism until evidence shows that it could go that way. And it's why I'm worried by the announcement of 7.0 changes for AST because if they've singled out AST over the others, it feels like they're probably going to go after the cards, which is about the only thing keeping me playing a healer role, as it's more than a Broil/Glare/Dosis spam, it's not much, but it breaks up the monotony in my down time, but I like the healing kits of all healer jobs...when I get to use them. And I can get enjoyment out of SGE if I purposefully play it badly as now that I've gotten good with it, I have to (which I know when SGE came out was my fear and hope I wouldn't get to).