Limit the amount of healers in a party in frontlines

[Poringing]

The more healers on the enemy team, the more focused your fire need to be. That's all. 4-6 DDs can melt any number of healers, if they all hit the same one. Also, suddenly switch target together for more efficient melting. Stacking a bunch of miasma(s) will guarantee a healer death.

[Stormrider]

I have still yet to see 8 healers. Two good healer are enough if its 8 on 8. The real key is the dps anyways. Four good dps will help win any battle. The other guys just seem to drop like flies. Healers only have 2 instant raises.

A whm and sch with the sch watching the whm seems to work best. Whm has big heals and sch has the little buff that helps them get more spells off.

[SeleneVenizelos]

If you want to limit the amount of any job, you're going down a slippery slope. I was the only SCH in a party of 7 BRDs this morning and we absolutely annihilated anything in our path.

As somebody who goes SCH every time, the secret to killing Healers is to keep interrupting them. Once I've blown my cool downs there is nothing I can do to stop myself getting interrupted every second with people beating on me. All you need to do is get 1-2 DPS per Healer, once their buffs have gone they'll be so focused keeping themselves alive that they won't be spamming AoE anymore. It's difficult but doable. When lots of people are smashing me my priority is keeping myself alive, not everyone else.

And just to add more food for thought to the debate,

I have still yet to see 8 healers.

I did have an 8 Healer party once and it was terrible. Yes, we didn't die, but neither did the enemy. It was a battle of attrition which we won, eventually, simply through better survivability. We simply did not have the Firepower needed to take down the opposition, we just outlived them until they got bored of trying and left.

The rest of that match was very boring, because they never came back. They did what you should do when a flag seems beyond your reach and went for another one. That can make quite a big difference to the outcome of a match. Imagine party C's surprise when party A and C from the Flames are hitting a Maelstrom Flag. Grossly outnumbering those opposition will lead to a captured flag in place of the one being guarded by healers. It's not uncommon, if one party has lots of healers and stubbornly camps the flag, for that to be the only flag constantly controlled. Everyone who would otherwise have been attacking that flag have sensibly given up on doing so and dispersed to help their alliance members overcome the other flags.

[Tralaix]

You have the same tools that every other team has.

[SeleneVenizelos]

You have the same tools that every other team has.

That's not really true is it? What if your team has no Healers? Have you even read this thread or did you just post based on the title?