Am I the only one fed up with DPS obsession?

[Anger]

I feel like SE's idea for PLD's new abilities was to make them a supplemental healer in the OT position, counterpart to WAR's OT position of supplementary DPS, but nobody seems to give a crap about unique play stile. All anyone ever talks about is DPS. "How can we push more DPS out of the tanks? How can we push more DPS out of the healers? We need to change everything so that DPS is better." Seems like a bunch of corporate fat-cats screeching about the bottom line, and the $$$ of FFXIV is DPS. The squeaky wheel spoke, the Dev's answered, and now we're painted into a corner where only DPS is "viable." i.e. "If you make PLD a healer, you should be able to replace a healer with a DPS. If it can't DPS, nobody will play it."

You should play it because it's fun because this is a GAME.

I encourage you to look in the Tank Roles forum where there are MANY threads, specifically for Paladin - about this issue. You're not the only one.