Why don't we have more DPS abilities ?

[Jidka]

Hello guys.

As a WHM player, I'm wondering why most of our DPS comes from spells ?

I means, if ~40% of our DPS came from spells and ~60% from short CD abilities (4 or 5 sec cooldown), we would prioritize healing spells over healing abilities when healing are required.

That way, it would be the occasion to bring back earth/wind/water to WHM while keeping light spells we have now. And we would have a more complex DPS rotation.

[Azurarok]

Fluid Aura used to exist

[NegativeS]

Forum curebots will tell you that they 'picked healer to heal, not dps'. I suppose SE's underpaid job developers have the same philosophy.

Personally, given how idiot-proofed the modern game is, having anything to do as a healer but cast an AOE regen and then spam 1 for 2 minutes is exceedingly rare.

[Azurarok]

At the same time, I don't think they really should be slapping on an oGCD attack on a simple cooldown that doesn't do anything but do a bit more damage either. That's how SGE's Psyche is right now and I'm wishing it had some actual kit interaction.

[Jidka]

Nothing forbid the DPS abilities to boost the healing spells.
Increased potency, longer HoT effect, mitigation, ...
That would make healing with spells stronger if you still do DPS.

[Carighan]

I'd be happy if they give me a reason to have this ton of healing abilities first. Kinda goes with the role that that's what I primarily want to do and all..

[Mesarthim]

Fluid Aura used to exist

I was convinced it was going to get nerfed yet again and just be an ability to quench one's thirst.

[Shurrikhan]

Nothing forbid the DPS abilities to boost the healing spells.

Forbid? No. But nothing "forbids" anything outside of unlockable actions being unable to be accessed until unlocked.

But there are some reasons why one wouldn't want their damage tied to healing. If the bonuses were enough to be relevant, after all, it would mean there are occasions where you'd have to delay the use of those damage abilities outside of raid windows in order to boost heals instead.

/cue complaints for lost aDPS (which is also others' lost rDPS, and together, net lost party damage for taking the more complex job). >.>

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To be clear, I would very much like more offensive actions (be they spells or abilities, so long as none are outright bloat) and more interaction between (sets of) actions. But yes, it's not just by some arbitrary self-stricture that {damage dealt -> increased healing potential} interactions haven't happened so far.

[Connor]

If not DPS they could at least give healers actual buff/debuff/etc spells to play around with in the vast space of time nobody needs healing lol

There’s an entire playstyle they just threw to the wayside lol.

Note that this does not preclude one or more healers from also being heavily dps focused

[Carighan]

Nothing forbid the DPS abilities to boost the healing spells.

Yeah like, we could have the DPS abilities cause healing on the tank. That'd be wild. They should add that!

Sorry, sorry. I mean of course if they were to do that it'd be cool, but it naturally eggs onto Sage's niche, so not sure to what degree it'd be sensible to add. I understand Kardia is just Fairy with a different skin and a defined target, but it still feels weird.