What I've realized about healing in XIV...

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Originally Posted by Taika

but saying they should be solely about healing because that's in their role name is not any better argument than saying a job should be about X because their icon colour is XY.

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Solely?

I'd settle for 50/50 healing and DPSing, but it's more like 20% healing, 80% DPSing in the majority of content in the game.

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Originally Posted by Taika

snip :3

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I don't think anyone is really saying "healers should solely heal", or at least that's not what they're trying to convey. Rather, it seems to be "healers should primarily heal", that this heavy accent on healers throwing out at much DPS as possible, so much so that many players put healing as a secondary job of the role, is really hurting the role as a whole. I can tell you, in WoW, healers still throw out an not-insubstantial amount of DPS, but it's always, ALWAYS secondary to players getting the healing they need, it takes effort and planning to be able to keep everyone up through heavy raid damage, and not DPSing and focusing solely on healing is not grounds to get you kicked, whereas in this game, you can bring the entire party back up to 100% after raidwide massive AoE in a cooldown or two, then it's BACK TO DPSING. It's just not engaging when it's compounded with the dull "rotation".