Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
I also agree with buffing. I never understand HEALERS that want to DAMAGE. Healing is a support role. The point is to aid and boost allies, and that's the player most attracted to the role. I don't even mind having damage focused healers AS ONE OF THE OPTIONS, but having them all be that is just silly. Other MMOs managed to figure this out, I'm not sure why FFXIV - and not even FFXIV, more FFXIV's hardcore/elitist players - can't.
Yes, altough a niche game, I LOVED Geomancer in FF Explorers. You could customize your fields to heal and buff and or to do damage. Or both at the same time. Multiple of them, it was super fun to put down fields to support my allies and all that shizzle. And the outfit was super cute, we need more massive round hats in XIV.
I want healers to heal more, but since the game design doesn't allow it, I want to buff my allies instead of dotting my enemies. I don't play healers to do damage. Don't be mistaken, i glare and dia and assize and lilly and misery and everything until i become more blind from my own light, but that is because the game does not support healing-healers... it is fine, if there was anything else to do.

I'm one of the few whms that use wings for big aoes, that uses benison and aquaveil etc. Many people don't even use their cooldown, it's especially noticeable on schs with no soils and no seraph etc. I know it's not ultra needed in most normal content, but it adds a little more engagement that just "aw man i have to spam 1 button". Yes, we do, but you also could use the rest of your kit more, even if its redundant in MOST normal content...

But I don't need brds and dancers to be support. I don't mind that they are, I like support classes a lot, I want healers to also count more to it.
Shields is nice and damage buffs are nice, but something... it's hard to explain what i would want, but something else i have to juggle.
What if i have to combo my attacks/heals with some oGCDs? They won't interrupt each other and you'd have enough time on each juggle for heals to not break it.
Breaking whatever you're juggling won't be the end of the world either, you just have to build it up again or something.

Timers aren't a bad thing, putting dots on a mob you only have to refresh and nothing more, is.
Bufftimers are more fun to juggle than that, in my opinion. It's hard to explain. I just want to do more for my TEAM instead of just.... set it and forget it dot.

It's just that i don't see where more dots would help me be more engaged if it's less engagement because I only have to press the button every 30 seconds or more or less... doesn't really matter which way. It does ALL the work by itself when I press it, even if i die after it.