Quote Originally Posted by Staris View Post
its not 8 solo players, its a team effort
People who come from other MMORPG's appear to be under the belief that it's 8 solo players. Particularly players who came from open-world PvP games. Because in these games a Healer is the punching bag, so nobody plays them. I actually hear of this problem in FFXIV with the PvP content as well, and I've never played the PvP content because of this.

If you're playing FFXIV as it was designed, the healer role is not meant to DPS inside the dungeons, but the option is there. If you want to play a healer who can DPS or a DPS who can heal, you pick Scholar/Summoner, but you still don't expect the DPS to heal any more than you expect the healer to DPS.

The entire reason Cleric Stance exists is so that people will play healers and can play the single-player storyline content. The FATE's are a great example of how awful healers are when compared to DPS-only roles. Every time you have to level sync to where you can't use Holy, the BLM/Thaumaturge and the Archer/Bard will kill everything before you even fire off a shot since they have AOE's at level 18 or 12. It was such a pain in the butt chasing FATE's around for the Atma's only to have one or two DPS players kill everything.