Quote Originally Posted by DeadlyAlbatross View Post
So, is this thread about healer mains wanting to be even more indispensable than they already obviously are?

The 'all variants play the same' is largely valid for tanks and dps of their own respective types.
Bards and Dancers play somewhat interestingly, but other than that it's just a cycle of rotations anyhow.
Most egregious example probably being summoners, who, for all the fluff, are now merely black mages with Raise.
It’s about healer mains and their general complaints about the role that aren’t getting adressed which can be broadly summarised as

1) reduction in role responsibility- this includes the increase in non healer AOE heals which has facilitated increasingly common abilities for healerless comps to clear hard content with no healers. In casual content this presents itself as the problem of the immortal tank and the DPS who are reliant on the healer but have no way to defend the healer. Most damage in the game is directed at the tanks, but the tanks don’t need a healer right now

2) boring DPS rotation- I really don’t think I need to explain this, healer DPS is expected, balanced for and what you do for 95% of your GCD’s yet all you actually end up doing is spamming one button. The healer classes are designed like we spend 99% of our time healing but we barely spend 5% of our time

3) boring, non interactive bloated healing kits- again pretty self explanatory, the healing kits are excessive for the damage, they barely interact with each other and they are full of boring bloat that’s just copies of other abilities

4) repetitive class design- healer is just about the only role where you can literally just copy key binds, mit and heal plans and entire playstyle arrangement from one healer to another and lose almost nothing because they are so incredibly similar. Tanks are also too similar but no two classes in the game come remotely close to how similar SCH and SGE are

Different people here place different levels of importance on each of these 4 points but they are hardly the problems people have