Why don't we have more DPS abilities ?

[Connor]

Yeah that's true, ideally both, but frankly I don't mind my DPS being just 2-3 buttons so long as the mechanics are interesting. But increasing healing needed would fix that part (my filler GCD would be heals, not DPS), and that'd in turn open up room for using those 2-3 damage buttons for more interesting things mechanically.

I agree with this and personally I think it goes for both ‘healer dps’ and ‘healer healing’.

Like, just increasing the number of DPS / Non-healing actions healers have isn’t going to solve anything if those skills aren’t fun/interesting to use. Like those crappy 120-sec cd follow-ups (Baneful Impaction, Glare IV, Psyche, Oracle). They technically fulfill the request of ‘more dps abilities for healers’, but they don’t really add enough to the jobs to be considered ‘fun’ or ‘interesting’ (at least in my opinion).

Likewise, just increasing the amount of healing isn’t going to solve anything if healing mechanics aren’t actually fun/interesting. If healers need to ‘heal more’ but are still primarily designed to do the vast majority of it with free oGCDs, it wouldn’t really change very much overall.