The Problem with Healer Feedback, and requested changes

[Deceptus]

End of the day, there are different groups of people. So any solution is going to anger a lot of them. Some want to do more damage while others want to do more healing, some want to do more of both while others think the system is fine as it is today, some want to do less healing, some want to do less damage, some would rather cast buffs on party members. The conversation is also strongly weighted by Savage raiders and ignoring something like 70% of the playerbase that...doesn't.

Needless to say, you aren't going to please everyone.

And you don't have to please everyone, but you can try to and the FFXIV devs aren't trying in the healer design aspect. Here's the thing:

The people who don't want to DPS never will, adding more DPS options affects them in zero ways. They're happy where they're at.

Adding more DPS / Support actions for the people who want them will make them happier.

So you either

1) Stay where we are now and a sizeable portion of the healer base is unhappy with the current design

or

2) Improve the base healer gameplay to make it more engaging for the veteran players.

Might it be stressful for the non-dps healers? No, because they don't DPS anyway. And harassment is against the TOS so anyone complaining they're not DPSing is an easy report.

As for the people who'd feel like they got the 'short end of the stick' by getting more buttons to press, first of all, it's a weird stance to take

The legitimate complaint is having to press more buttons for the same output as other jobs.

Old school DRK and their Dark Arts Spam, or old DRG's/SMN and their 30 buttons to do middling dps, MCH/DNC/BRD in general.