How would you solve the boring "damage rotation" of the healers?

[ty_taurus]

I think the only one that was hard on you was Ty, I just gave my thoughts on why I don't think a combo is a good fit for healers and Sarge agreed with it. I didn't mean to be hard when I suggested against it and I'm sorry if I came across otherwise.

To be fair to Ty though, he's seen it suggested several times over and doesn't see it fixing anything, and I largely agree that it doesn't fix much. The big problem with it is that it's not any different from the 111 spam we have now, it's a linear choice with no deviation or extras to work with. Procs dynamically change up what our next action could be, gauges can be spent or saved depending on ones proclivities, DoTs, debuffs, buffs, and cooldowns break up the monotony of that linear choice, even if it's on a strict timer itself.

Every job that has a 1-2-3 combo typically has that 3rd button unlock something else in the kit, more gauge to spend, stacks to spend, procs, another timer to watch, etc. It adds a layer of interactivity beyond the combo and it's less about "having the combo" and more "the combo does something interesting". I'd rather cut the middle man of the first 2 buttons and go straight to the 3rd button since that's more or less how the casters work in this game; I don't need to do Fire > Fire II > Fire III to unlock Astral Fire, I just go straight to Fire III, Fire and Fire II have other uses in the kit instead.

I don't think having a 1-2-3 combo is in itself a bad thing on a healer, but I think it's best used on one that has a melee phase rather than a base for all of them to work off of.

I didn't even see their comment actually. What made me post that was agreeing with this statement:

I agree with Dusty. Healers are magic users and straight up combos, even if they share a button, would just feel wrong.

I'm sitting here on the sidewalk with my intestines hanging out of a gaping wound in my stomach, and I'm tired of people offering me a band-aid and nothing else. I know it's not intentionally an insult, but it starts to feel like one when it happens over and over. It just baffles me how the go-to solution for people uninvested in wanting an actual solution to the problem is something that is hilariously offbrand for casters and healers with the only exception being Red Mage's brief burst combo designed specifically to represent the history of Red Mage being not entirely useless with weapon attacks in Final Fantasy history unlike casters.

"Hey, pass me a soda."

*Hands me a trumpet*