Quote Originally Posted by Bole View Post
If you want healers to heal more, then you should also have a lot to complain about the current state of FFXIV. IMO, even with the 2 button rotation, healers are more hyper focused on DPS now than they were in the past.
Funnily enough, if the people who only want to heal on their healers dug a little deeper with their research, they'd be asking for HW design back instead of wanting to triple down on the ShB design. There was very little pressure to do a lot of dps back in HW because of how difficult it was to manage your MP and also Cleric Stance existing along with more tank damage, I remember that most players actually encouraged the healer to not do any damage until they're able to properly gauge the amount of incoming damage because it was so easy to wipe from unlucky crit autos/busters.

Also, the more damage buttons healers have, the less damage they'd lose to having to GCD heal instead of pressing their filler nuke, this is a point that was brought up by quite a few people. Returning to the old design would actually open up space to encourage using GCDs for anything other than damage because you end up losing much less damage than now. It would also reduce toxicity towards healers rather than increasing it, you actually had a valid reason to stand around and do nothing for stretches of time back in HW because the tank could take 2 unlucky crits and just drop low, you don't exactly have any valid reason to stand around doing nothing in current design because of how accessible it is to deal damage and heal at the same time.