Healing MSQ Duties Is Incredibly Dull

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The first time I did the solo instance at the end of Endwalker, it was incredible. I had a blast. Constantly darting around, using a complicated DPS chain, managing gauges and juggling when I could attack with when I needed to defend, or use self-healing options.

I did it as a Reaper, and anyone who has played any amount of time as a healer in this game knows I wasn't describing a healing role. On two of my alts, I went through the game again as a white mage, and as a sage (and sometimes astro), and in both cases every single solo instance is miserably boring. I appreciate the 'role-playing' system means there's variety, but any time I'm forced to control my own character and playing a healing role, any of the healing roles (since in solo content they play completely identically), it's completely miserable.

I'm curious, has anyone first-time healed these things and felt like it was really fun to press a DoT and then mash a single target damage button for 30 seconds and then press a DoT and mash the single target damage button for 30 more seconds, and now the fight's over, hooray?

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