#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Aword3213]

I have to pull you up on this because I have a feeling that you haven't done all forms of content because this general dissatisfaction does not exactly fit the bill in Savage, Savage Criterion and Ultimate content.

Pretty sure many healer mains here fit that criteria perfectly. I think they will agree with OP on that point though.

While I had been at odds with them in the past, our disagreement stems from how we percieve the issues and how it should be addressed. However, we share the same sentiment that there is something wrong in healer design and it's getting worse over the expansions.

Unless you are playing in the most optimal setting (most aren't) and are overgeared for the content (applies to Savage, at which point it's not about job design it's about ilvl bruteforcing) then you are straining your cohealer because they are for sure doing GCD healing which you yourself seem to prefer.

From my own experience, it's not true. Most of my clears have higher overheal rate than my cohealer and I can still get clears with a nice paint on my shoulder even though I always wear non BIS gear due to my laziness. This is coming from someone who never farm Savage content to git gud as I rarely have clear record more than 8, as my achievement shows.

You don't need to be hyper-optimized in healers to start ignoring healing GCDs, so do your cohealers.

[BismarckBug]

From my own experience, it's not true. Most of my clears have higher overheal rate than my cohealer and I can still get clears with a nice paint on my shoulder even though I always wear non BIS gear due to my laziness. This is coming from someone who never farm Savage content to git gud as I rarely have clear record more than 8, as my achievement shows.

You don't need to be hyper-optimized in healers to start ignoring healing GCDs, so do your cohealers.

Since I have recency bias now, I'm generally going to speak from that experience. My experience is that I had to GCD heal a decent amount (some of them could've likely been skipped, but I preferred to clear) because my cohealer was lining up orange and pink numbers.

I felt like the raid damage on initial clears was pretty good because we cleared with crafted gear, but pretty soon (due to ilvl scaling) it got out of hand and even with missing mitigation, it felt like it wasn't scathing. I feel like this part is more of a gear bruteforcing issue rather than the jobs themselves, but I do take your points.