Leveling healing is too boring. Does it get better?

[GrimGale]

Healers should be healing, using a little dps, then back to healing. Not dps 99% of the time.

I personally find the act of balancing DPS and Healing to be the most engaging part of FFXIV's healers. Interestingly neither side of the kit has been designed with major usage in mind: Evidently our DPS kits are very basic and lackluster for the prevalence of healing downtime but I would also argue that our current healing kit is also very lackluster for a sustained healing situation.

Our basic GCD healing tools do nothing interesting beyond "restore HP to target" or "restore HP to multiple targets". Medica, Adlo, Cure, Benefic, Helios, Succor...They are all really basic. Spamming cure on a target isn't more interesting to me than spamming glare on the enemy.

My point being, if they would redesign combat to require this form of sustained healing, our basic healing kits would also need to be redesigned.

[Hazama999]

I personally find the act of balancing DPS and Healing to be the most engaging part of FFXIV's healers. Interestingly neither side of the kit has been designed with major usage in mind: Evidently our DPS kits are very basic and lackluster for the prevalence of healing downtime but I would also argue that our current healing kit is also very lackluster for a sustained healing situation.

Our basic GCD healing tools do nothing interesting beyond "restore HP to target" or "restore HP to multiple targets". Medica, Adlo, Cure, Benefic, Helios, Succor...They are all really basic. Spamming cure on a target isn't more interesting to me than spamming glare on the enemy.

My point being, if they would redesign combat to require this form of sustained healing, our basic healing kits would also need to be redesigned.

I wish I could like this comment multiple times.

100% agree.

Neither side is interesting at this time. You got your occasional DoT and damage ability spam on the DPS side, but on the healing side you have just...... "HP number is down, make it go up!!" skills or some slight variation thereof. Shields, in their current iteration at least, are no more interesting than reactive healing either. In order for healing to actually be engaging, the game would have to support a system in which the type of damage, rather than just the NUMBER... affects how you use your kit.

[Valence]

I have tried leveling healers, the problem is the lack of healing. I am so bored I fell asleep mid fight, noone died except me. The lack of engagement in the role is terrible. I have mained healing in every game I have played except FF14. When I started I started as a healer. I dropped healing and didn't look back until recently because I missed healing, yet I am running into the same issue, the severe lack of healing to be had.

Last time I said the same thing to some people, I got told that "perhaps healing isn't for me".

I don't know what to think of it.

[Naychan]

Last time I said the same thing to some people, I got told that "perhaps healing isn't for me".

I don't know what to think of it.

No, SQE has just train them like puppies to not expect anything from healing and like lap dogs they yap with approval.

[Ramiee]

Healers should be healing, using a little dps, then back to healing. Not dps 99% of the time.

Yeah not me who designed the game to give tanks absurd self sustain, almost no consistent raid wides and overpowered oGCD heals. At this point the Devs expect you to only spend gcds on damage.

[Laerune]

White mage was my first class and spamming stone was awful, so I feel for you, OP.

Make sure to use chocobo companion, enemies die faster that way.

[ToodlesElNoodles]

Really funny when AI (duty support/trusts) are better at playing healers than most players.

If the SE’s CureAI-Bot can find time to DPS and heal, you as a human player, can find time to DPS and heal.

[BunnyQueen]

https://www.wowhead.com/blue-tracker...94517#24223979

At this point Blizzard understands healthy tanking and healing better then SE does.
Never thought I would see the day when SE should be taking tips from Blizzard and not the other way around.

[GrayLowell]

At this point Blizzard understands healthy tanking and healing better then SE does.
Never thought I would see the day when SE should be taking tips from Blizzard and not the other way around.

There was a day like that. When they were learning from WoW to make 2.0 better than 1.0

[BunnyQueen]

There was a day like that. When they were learning from WoW to make 2.0 better than 1.0

Where did it all go wrong?