Roles need to be changed to better reflect the game.

[Fevelle]

@OP
As scholar i'm happy to be able to heal/dps i find it exciting and fun not stressful. If you feel stressed by a job so this job isn't for you imo. If i wasn't able to dps too, god it would be so borring....i cannot understand all those healers who prefer wait and cast one cure every 20 sec like a robot instead of using all the skills they can IF the situation allows it.

No healer ever said he wants to just stand there. We want to heal. This game doesn't require full-time healing and that's why it's flawed.

As a WHM I personally find it stressful to DPS. One of the reason is because I have diagnosed anxiety problems and something that others think is ok is like hell for me (like a tank going down to 100HP before Benediction - I won't panic, but I'll stay all the time in full alert mode thinking "oh my god I'll let the tank die and he will hate me and I'm gonna be kicked"). I only DPS because I'm expected to, not because I like it.

I wish SQEX would increase the healing necessity on DF dungeons and remove CS from dungeon use. The problems would be solved, but no, some people want to DPS, because you know, they rolled a healer to deal damage.

When I get into battles in other final fantasy games, when no healing is needed I make my healers attack enemies. No point in just letting them stand there and do nothing.

Or you could use their downtime to buff your party with the 9999 different Nul-element spells, Floats, Haste, Valor and other awesome buffs... Oh, but I forgot there are no such things as buffs in FFXIV outside of useless MP-sinks (Stoneskin) and HoTs... Maybe AST can do that, but still, in the current flawed Healer DPS meta, the buffs aren't good enough to make up for the damage on downtime.

This is game is the most strange one I ever played when it comes to healing. We pop a HoT on tanks and proceed to deal damage. Yup, that's some complex healing we have here.