I'm bored when I heal because I need more complex DPS rotations

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Healer issue has been festering to the point where 1 singular fix won't magically fix everything. Lack of damaging encounter/reasons to use our buttons is one from many of their issues.

Yes, you can make everything hits harder but how much harder you can make that before your regular Timmy the Medica II Mage upsets 3-7 other players in everyday's Duty Finder groups because their good ole' "Medica II everything!" no longer works?

[Zeastria]

Healer issue has been festering to the point where 1 singular fix won't magically fix everything. Lack of damaging encounter/reasons to use our buttons is one from many of their issues.

Yes, you can make everything hits harder but how much harder you can make that before your regular Timmy the Medica II Mage upsets 3-7 other players in everyday's Duty Finder groups because their good ole' "Medica II everything!" no longer works?

With higher heal requirements such players wouldn't exist in first place,
They exist because THIS game allows it.
- Are we gonna balance/build the game around players who press one heal button?

Neglectance to learn and fulfill your your role is griefing..( be it healer/tank or dps)
Stop defending such play.

[Asari5]

- Are we gonna balance/build the game around players who press one heal button? .[/B]

we already did. everything turns into asthetics only.
story? has always been more cutscene than anything else.
healer? no comment
summoner? they took the pet and turned it into fancy lights, people love it.
a-raids? a lot of fancy mechanics... people love it.
and and and

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Healer issue has been festering to the point where 1 singular fix won't magically fix everything. Lack of damaging encounter/reasons to use our buttons is one from many of their issues.

Yes, you can make everything hits harder but how much harder you can make that before your regular Timmy the Medica II Mage upsets 3-7 other players in everyday's Duty Finder groups because their good ole' "Medica II everything!" no longer works?

Back in the day, when others' ability to play impacted your gameplay experience, people found these things called "friends" and played with those. This actually made their play more fun. As humans get dopamine hits both from socializing and completing something they view as challenging. However, thanks to modern technology, if someone is insistent on not making these friend things, the alternative option of Duty Support still exists.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Neglectance to learn and fulfill your your role is griefing..( be it healer/tank or dps)
Stop defending such play.

???

You missed the point. The goal is to let players from both end of the spectrum to enjoy their gameplay. Why does it always have to be one and not the other? Why not both? Raise the skill ceiling (engaging downtime activities). Let the skill floor (minimum healing requirement) remains, or at least not significantly affected.

[Wasselin]

I think they should fix this problem by requiring more healing in all content, but especially in the type of content I do, which is the easy stuff. Healers have a ton of tools in roulette content. There is room where they can make it a little bit harder without tipping the balance to too hard.

I'm sure they can figure something out but the best way to do this would be to make some boss attacks that are unavoidable and unmitigatable. Then give those attacks a recognizable telegraph. Tanks get this for tank busters, there should be a "healer buster" too where it clearly telegraphs that you need to do big heals now.

We have a few of these like bleeding damage or the triple stack marker, but I think we could use at least one more that would require some sustained single target or aoe healing. To me it sounds really fun to be required to cast some healing skills back to back sometimes (not all the time), rather than just one global skill or one ogcd occasionally. They should also require Esuna a little bit more than they do.

DPS players switch between an AOE and single target rotation. They have to interrupt or stun sometimes. There is no reason healers can't have the same where they switch between a simple DPS rotation to a healing rotation when they need to sustain healer, with an occasional cleanse.

This wouldn't be impossible to implement, they just have to want to. They could balance it for players like me and the more hardcore. To me people asking for more complex DPS rotations on healers is a sign that they are failing on the healing gameplay. I personally wish they would improve that, because that's what makes the healing role distinct.

[Nizzi]

bwut i fink gware would be weawwy fun to pwess if i had to pwess my cuwe two button a bunch!! wike weawwy fun gamepway!! >W< heawuhs need to heaw >//W//<''!!!!

[Raikai]

I'm curious to see what the healers are going to get through their 90-100 range...

Healing actions? We have enough gcd and ogcds to the point that anything else is going to be redundant, even charges. Unless they add more frequent healing checks to the encounters specific to Dawntrail onwards.

DPS actions? Could be a route, but since they never gave any indication of adding more complexity to healer's dps kits, I think this is unlikely.

Support actions? We already have too many instances of mitigation rolling around, unless it's some kind of new thing, much like Expedient did with the sprint.

I feel that the healer role is getting (or already got?) to a brick wall where it's very difficult to evolve towards any side.

[Sani2341]

I'm curious to see what the healers are going to get through their 90-100 range...

Healing actions? We have enough gcd and ogcds to the point that anything else is going to be redundant, even charges. Unless they add more frequent healing checks to the encounters specific to Dawntrail onwards.

DPS actions? Could be a route, but since they never gave any indication of adding more complexity to healer's dps kits, I think this is unlikely.

Support actions? We already have too many instances of mitigation rolling around, unless it's some kind of new thing, much like Expedient did with the sprint.

I feel that the healer role is getting (or already got?) to a brick wall where it's very difficult to evolve towards any side.

Well seeing as se admitting their shb and ew direction for healers was unpopular is not gonna happen probably more of the same.

Upgrade to the filler nukes potency

Extra charge on an existing ogcd

And a new healing ogcd tailored to some specific raid mech they are dreaming up for savage.

[mallleable]

It also seems like mitigation is maybe a bit too strong, and prevalent. Like there's nothing to heal when you can just slap the boss a little icon, or place a little icon on your party, and not take damage in the first place.