Healer as the off tank...

[Selvokaz]

What if they designed healers going forward as a support/tank role?

Seeing as how we generate the 2nd highest enmity it only seems right that we should be able to tank that and hold the party together until we can get the tank back up. This would help further separate healers from just casters, and help us to feel more like a middle ground between tank/caster or Support. In traditional RPGs, a dedicated healer class like Cleric and to a lesser degree Druid, were probably some of the tankiest non-fighter/barbarian classes as they had more hp than a wizard/sorcerer, and with better armor protection, and usually better saves. I could see an argument being made for that being the case in 14 if the design team implemented these changes.

Support Stance:
While in SS Healers receive 15% less damage, Healing Spells have a reduced casting time. Damage is reduced by 5%. Eminty Increase (less than tanks but higher than any DPS could generate given the same number of actions over time.)

Healer's Resolve:
HP Bonus based off of Piety perhaps? Like I said before Healers should be hardier than normal casters like Wizards or in this case black mage, etc etc, and by a hefty margin too. if DPS has 22k hp and the tank has 100k then the healer role should have 50k hp
This could be a stat buff that triggers when entering group content with a party like how limits don't appear until you have a party of 4 or more, the more people in the party the bigger the buff so that at 4 people parties healers have the above-mentioned hp buff.

Let's move away from having the same Role Actions as the DPS casters mostly.
We can keep things like Swiftcast, Surecast, and Lucid Dream, but Repose isn't exactly necessary I don't think.

New Role Action:
Why not have a new Role action that is an attack unique to healer types, that's like a big DPS spike button that has a reasonably long cooldown, perhaps say 2 minutes but the damage is chef's kiss, usable only when in the healer role in a party setup.

Miracle Strike: Strike at all your foes with the combined hopes and prayers of your allies Deal unaspected damage to All enemies within range of 25y and a radius of 5y, Potency 700, with a potency increase of +100 for each Ally above 4. So that in raids the damage goes up to. This gives healers another attack button they can use in their rotations and increases their DPS slightly to compensate for SS a bit.


Let's be more like this


and Less like this

[Tunda]

SE have to rework tanks and healers to do this kind of job

But I agree with you classic guardian job should exist in gfxiv

[Selvokaz]

This is more like a rework for all healer jobs going forward, but thank you for your response, having any kind of input is better than none as maybe this thread will catch SE attention, and give them something to think about.

[wildvenonat]

How are you generating second highest enmity? I'm usually at the bottom.

Losing Repose would be a huge blow in deep dungeons and adventuring forays. It's extremely useful.

I think a piety HP boost would be nice, but the rest I'm not sure about. It is an interesting thought, though.

[Selvokaz]

How are you generating second highest enmity? I'm usually at the bottom.

Losing Repose would be a huge blow in deep dungeons and adventuring forays. It's extremely useful.

I think a piety HP boost would be nice, but the rest I'm not sure about. It is an interesting thought, though.

I suppose Repose could be useful in select situations, but it's just that dps casters also have sleep, and it felt kind of samey, maybe if Blind was a replacement it could be added to Miracle Strike or better still if Miracle Strike added a random status effect Like Sleep, Blind or Paralysis.

Healing usually generates a lot of enmity for me, and I try to keep a regen on a tank either just after a pull

[Nero-Voidstails]

How are you generating second highest enmity? I'm usually at the bottom.

Losing Repose would be a huge blow in deep dungeons and adventuring forays. It's extremely useful.

I think a piety HP boost would be nice, but the rest I'm not sure about. It is an interesting thought, though.

actually it is true if a DPS doesn't DPS right the healer will be higher because healing generate way more aggro but if a DPS does it right you will never be above them unless you overheal

[Sani2341]

Let's be more like this

Not Sure I'd put that as a goal for a Healer.

Though the WoL def. is already rather close to those. Sure WoLs not under an Oath of silence, but with how little we speak might as well be.
That said Followers of the God of Death and Sleep usualy don't make great Healers.

[Selvokaz]

Not Sure I'd put that as a goal for a Healer.

Not sure what you mean the topic is bout designing healer's going forward being more of an off-tank or 2ndary tank design wise, if the tank does go down they are there to hold the party together until they get the tank up, whether that means tanking a few blows without being near killed, or standing in for the tank until he gets his barring back is what I'm talking about, not sure what you're talking about.

[Magikazam]

It would be kinda weird and have a couple issue rn imo. We already bring 2 tanks per encounter, one of them being the main tank and the other one being the off tank. Also we already have an issue of tank being near immortal in anything that ain't endgame contents, If now we also have healer who immortal it gonna screw that even more imo.

[Sani2341]

Not sure what you mean the topic is bout designing healer's going forward being more of an off tank or 2ndary tank design wise, if the tank does go down they are their to hold the party together until they get the tank up, whether that means tanking a few blows without being near killed, or standing in for the tank until he gets his barring back is what I'm talking about, not sure what you're talking about.

You pulled up art of a Golgarith, an armed Priest of the God of Death and Sleep from DSA and went 'let's make healers more like that'. Meaning ultimately no healing, and all the murder and burials.