ELI5: How are the current dungeons hard?

[Arohk]

But on a more grand scheme of thing, healing model in FFXIV is busted, because it's basically tuned for only using OGCDs XD

No it is not, go do savage and you will see.

[TDawnstar]

No it is not, go do savage and you will see.

Yes, of course. I was talking about "normal" content.

[Arohk]

Yes, of course. I was talking about "normal" content.

And that is why normal content is already very easy, you don't even need your entire toolkit to get through.

If you are curious: here this is how i heal in a dungeon, i barely even need to heal, all i do is spam holy and use some OGCD on the tank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w98G8BAPZIE

[TDawnstar]

If you are curious: here this is how i heal in a dungeon, i barely even need to heal, all i do is spam holy and use some OGCD on the tank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w98G8BAPZIE

Yes, I pretty much do something like that as WHM. The problem with Alexandria is the speed of some mechanics, not the healing toolkit.

[Jinglypockets]

No it is not, go do savage and you will see.

The only Savage fights I've done are P5S through P8S. I did them as White Mage/Astro.

A specific moment in P8S Phase 2 was the first time I ever felt like healing took active effort in this entire game (assuming proper execution -- healing people when they're messing up mechanics can be very demanding).