Hello!
From of the discussions about the state of healers and how they desperately need a rework:
Do you rather want to have the devs change the current system but keep the core system, or completely rebuild them from the ground up? Like, change everything about the healers, how they work, how they are played, their spells,...?
This is not meant to be about what kind of new features you would like to have, or your ideas, but the general concept of healers in FFXIV and if you want to keep it or rather want it to be changed completely.
With "core system" I mean generally doing DPS as a healer when no healing is required, and prioritizing oGCDs to heal unless they are not enough.
Not the ratio between healing and DPS, or how we have so few DPS options left and homogenized healing across all healers. Just the concept of DPSing and healing when needed, having healing buffs, having shields and regen effects, having resources like lilies or Aetherflow, things like that.
What do you think?
Personally, while I agree that there is a lot wrong with healers, like 1 button DPS, or that a lot of times you don't even touch a single GCD heal. I like the system of being able to do meaningful DPS as a healer. I also like having oGCD heals. It's fun to DPS and then quickly use an oGCD heal and go back to DPSing. Just not that that's all you are ever doing, especially not with how oversimplified and boring DPSing as a healer is, even though with every expansion less healing is needed and more time you do DPS.
I also like some of the core abilities of the healers and wish they rather get expanded upon instead of being made anew completely.
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From of the discussions about the state of healers and how they desperately need a rework:
Do you rather want to have the devs change the current system but keep the core system, or completely rebuild them from the ground up? Like, change everything about the healers, how they work, how they are played, their spells,...?
This is not meant to be about what kind of new features you would like to have, or your ideas, but the general concept of healers in FFXIV and if you want to keep it or rather want it to be changed completely.
With "core system" I mean generally doing DPS as a healer when no healing is required, and prioritizing oGCDs to heal unless they are not enough.
Not the ratio between healing and DPS, or how we have so few DPS options left and homogenized healing across all healers. Just the concept of DPSing and healing when needed, having healing buffs, having shields and regen effects, having resources like lilies or Aetherflow, things like that.
What do you think?
Personally, while I agree that there is a lot wrong with healers, like 1 button DPS, or that a lot of times you don't even touch a single GCD heal. I like the system of being able to do meaningful DPS as a healer. I also like having oGCD heals. It's fun to DPS and then quickly use an oGCD heal and go back to DPSing. Just not that that's all you are ever doing, especially not with how oversimplified and boring DPSing as a healer is, even though with every expansion less healing is needed and more time you do DPS.
I also like some of the core abilities of the healers and wish they rather get expanded upon instead of being made anew completely.
Continue reading...