It's time to ask again: what's MP for?

[RedLolly]

I was a SCH main in ARR. I know how the class played. The only reason SCH could even DPS the way it could was because Eos did the vast majority of the healing back then.

Nothing I said had anything to do with healers leveling in the overlord. I never mentioned nerfing their damage. I said that healers (implied: raid environment) should be healing, not DPSing. I didn't roll a healer to sit there and cast Medica 2 while spam Stone on a boss while healing with OGCDs. The design is absolutely stupid and a ton of people are and have always been unsatisfied with this design.

There are plenty of ways to do this. Give Medica 2 a cool down. Have more unavoidable damage. Nerf healing potency on OGCDs so healers have to spend more GCDs actually healing instead of pressing their DPS button. And addressing your first sentence: make healing spells cost more mana if they aren't going to reduce potency so healers actually have to pay attention to whether they should cast DPS spells or regen MP while strictly healing. Any of these, or some combination of them, would make healers less braindead.

Sage was built around DPS healing. Much like one of the reworks for Disc priest in WoW years ago along with Mistweaver monks.

I was also a Scholar main, and we also had to manage Eos's placement in arenas and own HP bar.

Anyway, I could absolutely live with your concepts in place myself as a healer enjoyer, (except in the DT dungeons and trials that don't play fair with high ping) but I can just as easily see players become equally angry healer DPS suddenly dropping to near zero in content being wholly unacceptable because it's been the gane’s standard for the entirety of FFXIV's lifetime as healers are now to just how bland the role feels.

Which is kind of the same issue with being against dropping MP, isn't it? We're, as in the collective player base, too used to having it, even if scrapping the mechanic wouldn't be as fundamental a change as it seems.

Honestly, I'm more interested in how it would completely change Black Mage, unless MP just became a bar on their gauge system that was exclusive to them.