Turning DRK into a tank was a huge mistake.

[Eisen-Zorn]

This is actually a by-product of this community's (somewhat unhealthy) obsession with non-DPS jobs doing DPS. I've been in parties where healers will let me drop to an inch of my life (and sometimes hit the floor) to get that one more offensive spell out, I've seen tanks that never miss hitting that berserk button when it's up, but don't touch Foresight or anything else, all of it. I've honestly never seen a community so obsessed with healers and tanks doing DPS as this one, ever.

This. All of this. I mean, I know that healers don't want to just be standing around healing, but that's their job. When I get dropped because a healer was stuck casting an offensive spell, that's not because I'm too squishy. It's because they weren't doing their job: Healing.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

This. All of this. I mean, I know that healers don't want to just be standing around healing, but that's their job. When I get dropped because a healer was stuck casting an offensive spell, that's not because I'm too squishy. It's because they weren't doing their job: Healing.

Uh, depends. Sometimes it's a mix of both elements. The healer can DPS as long as the tank does his job. It's really hard tp DPS when the tank ignore all his cds and he just goes ham on that big pull spamming flash/overpower/unleash. A wise healer will see how the tank does his job before dpsing. I've found plenty of tanks like that, lately. But the DPS obesession won't stop there. Even among the same DPS that still exists. DPS not using their LB when they should because "omg my stacks" or "omg my cds"? And not only that, they go greedy and ignore mechanics, stepping into AoEs or stuff like that.

Such is the life in FFXIV...