Quote Originally Posted by winsock View Post
Healing is much different. If a PLD heals a tank to full, a WHM cant/shouldn't heal said tank. If clemency was an instant heal, it can prevent me from using my insta-heal cooldowns. That is stepping on toes.
You realize that a party is eight people, so if you don't have to heal the tank, you still have to heal the raid. And you'd still have to Regen the tank, or Esuna the tank, or include the tank in your group heal right after a raid-wide damage, or raise some fallen party member (Unless you bitch about SMN to step on your toes on that, too)
FFXIV is a game where each job can make a little more than it's role. Everybody can put buffs or debuffs, everybody can DPS at least a little, and DPS even have cooldowns to help them mitigate damage or recover HP.
By the way, I suppose you think WAR step on your toes with there instant Equilibrium, Second Wind or Inner Beast ?
Quote Originally Posted by winsock View Post
And to be fair, most healers would prefer to heal. Healers end up dpsing because there isn't enough to heal and its better than idling.
You'd still have the opportunity to go solo heal thanks to a PLD off-tank, and be on heal duty the whole run.