Out of all the current alive MMOs...

Out of all the current alive MMOs, why is literally the only one that doesn't have boring as shit gameplay for healing is FFXIV? Everything else is just whack-a-mole healing and isn't engaging in the least.

FFXIV is just as shit as every other MMO out there, don't kid yourself.

I love healing in ffxiv. It's really fun to dps, heal and buff as an AST.

Did I say XIV isn't shit? No, I said healing in XIV isn't shit.

Healing in XIV is just as whack a mole as every other MMO. Fuck off back to xivg

You can always spot wowfugee healers because they just stand there and don't dps

Now you're just being retarded on purpose.

Every time I queue without a healer as a tank I get a healer that doesn't DPS or heal

I wanna fuck that fairy.

Shame the fairy only has a single use.

Cause your party members don't go down in five seconds if you aren't spamming heals.

Makes you wish they removed the cool down on potions doesnt it

2.5 second global cooldown

what? in wow you are expected to always be dpsing if you aren't healing, and there are sure as hell more APM in wow than this game where you get a free 3 seconds to think about what you're doing next before you actually press a button

>Playing an RPG that values action over tactics to the point where a global cooldown is even an issue

I miss when MMORPGs, were actually RPGs

>apm
You sound like a smash fag
Mashing 11111111 =/= skill and the difference in speed between the two games is literally how long it takes to say apm

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I hate XIV and even I can admit the healer classes in that game are miles above other MMO healers.

You sound like a faggot who plays mmos with a 2.5 gcd so I guess you wouldn't know what he's talking about you fucking casual

>tfw huton is active and an ast throws an arrow on you

>gets btfo
>w-well 2.5 meme

Except healing in WoW is braindead and you barely have any skills to DPS so your DPS is just spamming one or two skills over and over.

WoW's actual combat is dogshit, the only good part of the game is customization but that's still gated behind RNG gear. MCH and DRG have 3x more buttons than the most complex classes in WoW.

You faggots are arguing about this and no one has even said why FFXIV healing is any better than whack-a-mole healing.

But it's more like 2.32 with the current gear.

>no rebuttal
KEK. Enjoy your skilful mmo that my grandma could play

>TWO POINT FIVE SECOND GLOBAL COOLDOWN

HAHAHAHAHAHASH

>and then Selene uses her GCD buff
or

That's because you haven't played the game so there's no point.

Guild Wars 2.

There's a 2.3 GCD because you have regular cooldowns to weave in between the GCDs

If you're actaully only doing one thing every 2.5 seconds not only are you missing GCDs due to waiting .2 seconds after, you're also apparently not using a single ability which means you're either a shitter on the tier of the lazy healer catbois who play while watching netflix, or you're a Blizzard employee spouting buzzwords who hasn't touched the game beyond level 10

>b-b-but that's a rebuttal
>he didn't have a rebuttal in the first place

Try harder, maybe more caps will do the trick

Every MMO on the market right now is dogshit and I hate all you fags for ruining what used to be a good niche genre.

Trying to argue what is more complex between FFXIV and WoW is like arguing which episode of Dora the Explorer is more challenging

I've played WoW and FFXIV at top end raids and the latter blows the former out of the water.

You've made it obvious that you've never played XIV past level 40, or you'd know about off-GCD abilities.

And FFXIV didn't have Molten Core, BWL, AQ40 and Naxx where healing is literally two or three buttons.

2.3 GLOBAL COOLDOWN


BHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHA

Nice rebuttal ie you had bullshit as an excuse for a 2.5s gcd.

You're a casual weab. Just admit it. Nothing wrong with that

>selene buff

here comes the token contrarian

>oh shit I'm dying, better press my heal button
>engaging
fuck off

People who perpetuate the 2.5 GCD meme have never passed level 10.

Playing MCH or DRG might as well be like playing a fucking piano.

Off global cooldowns

>trips wasted on retard that can't even spell weeb

>JUST PLAY THIS SHITTY GAME FOR 50 HOURS, THEN YOUR GLOBAL COOLDOWN LOWERS BY .2 SECONDS


HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHA

Yes. You don't need to bother with that shit, making overall gameplay more fun.

To simplify what others have said, it's a 2.5 global because there are many abilities off the global. You're weaving off global rotations into on global rotations, which ends up providing far more interaction and on the fly decision making than other mmos

PLAYING A PIANO

WITH 3 FULL SECONDS BETWEEN EACH KEY PRESS


HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA OH MY FUCKING GOD IM DYING

Off global cooldowns

You think they're boys or they didn't want them to give them the female version of the pants

Off global cooldowns

>B-B-B-BBUT ONLY MOST OF THE SKILLS TRIGGER THE GLOBAL COOLDOWN BEFORE YOU CAN PRESS ANOTHER BUTTON

looking for that one players screen shot of some healer that threw away a dungeon run because they were browsing through netflix

thought i saved it but its gone

More like 2/3s of your skills

Someone explain to me why healing in FFXIV is more fun than ESO.

This isn't WoW where everyone has only 3-4 skills they actually use more than 1% of the time

Someone would have to play eso first to find out but who wants to buy a dead game

Didn't FFXIV sell only 5 million copies?

Bad bait. A Dragoon's full rotation is more complex than Monk/Rogue/Paladin/Arcane Mage combined in WoW.

It also has twice as many button presses. I'm guessing you tried FFXIV but got asspained because you couldn't DPS properly by just mashing one ability like in WoW.

yeah the game is doa

>just play through 50 hours of leveling with all your skills on a gcd then it's not i promise

yeah fuck off retard

Reminder ast is the master race healer now.

>doa
That would explain why my EU server (the least populous data centre) has instant queues and hundreds of people milling around the cities at any time of day. It's basically event Ironforge constantly.

But I guess they are all illusions caused by 2.5 GCD :^)

city clustering, there are very few people out in the world, even on the biggest servers

its super dead, everyone is in the cities because the game doesn't log you out

>make male cat character
>everyone bullies the absolute fucking SHIT out of me
Defend this, XIVdrones

Buy a race change potion

Blame Lala and Roe players. They're all memesters who think playing a joke race makes them superior to people who pick the race they like most.

But seriously all male cats are cucks so you kind of deserve bullying for being one unless you named your character ___ Nunh as a Suncat

They need a slow introduction because of WoW babies like you who think 1 button "rotations" will cut it.

How are you liking that story in WoW? Oh right, there isn't a scenario.

How about doing the same raid for 18 months whilst FFXIV gets features touted as big expansion content in WoW, for free, as a small addition in a patch, which comes every three months. (Squadrons/Garrison)

I played WoW since 2005 but you'd be delusional to go back to that after FFXIV.

Only homos and fujoshi play catboy.

Then why do I run into way more people out in the world than I did in WoW?

Oh right, because zones don't become entirely obsolete in FFXIV once you've done the quests there.

Game might not have 12 million subscribers but it has more than enough. Even at 4am I can find a group for old raid content within an hour. Queue times are fast even as DPS.

So keep telling me how it's dead.

It's a shame Wildstar died, it was one of the few games I've ever played that had engaging healers in it.

Though my favourite healer of all time will always be Disciple of Khaine.

I'm getting real tired of this "DRG so deep and complex meme." It's not any more/or less difficult than any of the other melee DPS classes. They all have their pros and cons.

pls respond

I haven't played other MMOs but don't they tend to devolve into Buff Macro and best attack button

kek that's ded if we're going to claim that eso is ded

Because they're encouraged to be active in combat, proactive in defense, and they're discouraged from being idle or passive like the role begs of them in so many other games.

Many other games use mana as a major restriction to prevent healers from taking action unless absolutely necessary or have enough constant damage everywhere so that they're mandated to spend every moment possible healing. While MP management can be an issue, you also have tools (and some allies) available to restore it, and you also have lots of time spent not healing - and as a result, you're having to constantly weigh the risk assessment of switching stances to deal damage.

Being a good healer in FFXIV hinges on your ability to make the most out of time where you don't need to be "healing," and being a great one requires that you use the tools you have to make larger windows of opportunity for you to deal damage and keep allies safe.

FFXI reboot when
FFXIV's shitty progression and back and front garbage story system made me drop it and WoW is a turd