How to easily have healers dps engaged ( yet another thread)

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What part of "field medic" screams "I poison people to death", though?



WHM's have no connection to Fey Magic.



This was a valid complaint in 2013, it isn't in 2022. If you weren't aware, the Devs have updated most Jobs to where combos don't break. On GNB, hit 1-2 then hit Gnashing Fang and watch something magical happen: You can go through your entire Gnashing Fang combo and that 3 button is still lit up and ready to go. PLD spells don't break their combos anymore, either. And I think RDM may not. Hop on MCH. Hit 1 then Drill then 2 then Chainsaw then 3. MAGIC!!!

Something amazing happened on the way to 2022: The Devs learned how to make it where combos don't break!

So a healer could have a "rigid combo" of 1-2-3 and be coded to where their healing spells don't break the combo. BAM! Problem solved!

DoTs on every healer are a relic from 2013/2.0 when healers only had one or two damage buttons to press. When WHM only had Stone 1 and Stone 2, which was better than Stone 1 in every way, and no oGCD heals to speak of, it made sense for them to have two DoTs since they might not have anything to do otherwise. That makes much less sense now with fights that have a lot more movement and higher APMs with oGCD weaves and instant cast movement heals and the like, as well as even WHM having more damage buttons now than they did in ARR.

1) the part that is basically “a field medic will do whatever it has to to be victorious in a fight and it learned poison magic as an ACN so it’s going to use it, what do you want a field mage to use, a knife, should we bring back book slap meta
2) WHM may not actually be a fey mage but the animations for the two are starting to look far to similar and nor did I ever say the fairy shouldn’t be a support tool you should use to gain an advantage, you know buffing and debuffing, not “replace the SCH as the healer“, the fairy is a support tool (remember fey covenant, fey wind etc) not a healer proxy
3) yeah so DOT juggling is boring but enforced 1-2-3’s are interesting just because succor won’t break my combo, pls explain that logic, and you used to have to weave as much as you do now, especially on SCH, let’s not pretend that the healers have to be insanely simple on DPS because heal weaving is gigabrain because we have 8000 oGCD’s now

DOT’s don’t have to be everyone’s shtick (I’m actually totally in favour of other healers losing DOT’s for something different) but why are people suddenly so opposed to that being what makes SCH more interesting because that is literally their lore, it’s like completely deleting cards off AST then going “yeah but like AST is star magic, a star mage doesn’t play yugioh”, it’s established lore within the game