Why I stopped Healing (A casual perspective)

[Inidra]

Imagine having build up a major bad guy over soooo many years, imagine the Expension, where you can fight that bad guy...Call him Zodiark...Zenos...what ever you want to call him.

Now imagine the epic sequences and dialogue that took place and then fiiiinaallly the fight begins and you....you only press one button? Well that's not fun and immersion breaking at all right? *Insert sarcasm* It's the power fantasy we all wanted right? Being so op that i can spam one spell and the occasional heal to defeat the first primal god ever to exist.

On a more serious note however. As someone who only plays the story, rps and only grinds dungeons, if the loot will fit my character for rp. Having only 1 actual dps button, combined with the obvious, but understandable focus on the main character being a meele class in the cutscenes, where it kinda always felt off, facing a guy with a giant demonic energy surging sword with a fat book (the metal cover of the book will hurt sure). That was always a minus in terms of immersion, but an understandable one, because of scope. Adding 1 a one button dps rotation however, made it unbearably boring for me and I would say for many people who leveled through the Endwalker story as a healer.

I thought I should write this, since the only things that I see is people complaining about, is in terms of dungeons/raids, which for me and probably some others are not all that important.

[Nizzi]

Definitely a valuable perspective. Healers are incredibly unfun in the MSQ solo duties as well and it feels like nobody at SE has thought of this as the game moves towards a more "solo play" focus. I played through all of EW on SCH, and the final solo duty at the end of the story made me laugh with how awful it felt. It wasn't hype, it wasn't satisfying; all I could think about was how much fun it would've been if I was playing a job that wasn't spamming their 1 spell over and over. Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil Broil at what was supposed to be the climax of a 10 year long story arc.

[shade62]

If Yoshi-P and/or his team were to take anything from these forums, I think this should be up near the top. Playing Healers in the MSQ--the easiest, most integral content to the game--is probably the worst experience I've had in this game. The absolute displeasure and boredom I feel spamming the singular damage button every new expansion is simply awful.

[Tint]

Throwing rocks never got old for me. But this Glare stuff? Booring. Also I liked the old casting animation of WHM a lot more. Why do I now have to do a pirouette every 2 seconds? :x

If the visuals were at least better with this 1 button spam...

[GoatOfWar]

Welcome to the club. Headbutting 1 button over and over untill the boss dies isn't fun.

[Derio]

Playing healer through MSQ? You might have more fun by having your chocobo with you and them getting close to dying a few times or you might have more fun watching paint dry.

[Mithron]

Making more complex healer damage rotations is arguably the #1 priority and issue in this game currently in my opinion. Until healers either actually have to heal more in majority of content or have more complex DPS rotations, it's going to be a role that very few want to do very often.

[NobleWinter]

I did the MSQ as Scholar and having played it since A Realm Reborn I can tell you that it hurts even more when you remember the old spells they took away. I have never missed Fey Wind so much. I don't know why they didn't change Selene into the solo play fairy so that you could trade your party heals for a DPS boost when you're alone. All the healers should have a solo stance stance where they become more DPS focused because fates and MSQ battles are hot garbage on a single button DPS healer.

[currentlemon]

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Doing Fates on Healer is so bad. Especially when you are trying to do it yourself. In fact, I can say levelling healers is a pretty bad experience. Getting nothing but healing spells as you level just gets in your nerves sometimes. It almost feels like a chore too. Really annoying.

[Darnath]

I will agree having just 2 "core" DPS buttons (DoT and "nuke", which I use very loosely especially for AST) is really obnoxious and annoying for when healers are out questing. Soloing the Variant Dungeon as a healer just really brings it out as a sore spot as the NPC with you doesn't do crap but run her mouth. Having a few more DPS buttons for these situations would be great to break the monotony

But I've said it in another thread, I wish I had the same luck the majority of this forums seem to have in my world of Duty Roulettes.
Dungeons? Wall to Wall it's chain Benefic II's as unless there's some miraculous tool that lets other healers have to know if the tank is going to self heal I trust a DF tank as far as I could throw my car (aka not at all). I've tried playing like healers here keep saying "Oh, just wait until they're 30% then heal". You know what happens? I get stuck in catchup mode where I'm having to use Lightspeed to get the tank back up to a safe area, especially if it's a DRK (Uncombine C&S and AD and put AD on a 30 sec CD). Dungeon bosses? After the first few days yeah, it's heavy DPS time (besides certain bosses always seem to be a mess *cough* 2nd boss Dead Ends). Trials? Depends on the trial. Some I swear the tanks are out of paper and when Rampart/Sentinel(or equiv) are down my HoT seems to do jack and I gotta alternate between a Malific and a Benefic on the tank. Same with Normal Raids. alliance, always get that first timer or joker who just doesn't seem to care what eats mechanics that will usually kill after 2 failed mechs and (again since we're not psychic can't tell if it's the first or second) I feel bad not topping them back up over and over until the stacks are too much