Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post
I think a fair flipside to this discussion is that if healers have so much downtime to dps, is the healer mechanics in FF14 lacking?

Its a quite fair argument by a player who chooses a healing role that they chose that role cause they wanted to heal, not dps. Some people play healers because healing is what they want to do. If we are in a situation where their presence is, according to some people, borderline unnecessary because of the lack of healing they actually have to do, leading to them standing around for ages, it suggests that perhaps the challenge presented for healers is lacking. A role shouldn't require you to play another role just keep engaged.

Again, in a Expert dungeon that has been going 40 mins no dps has the right to tell a healer he isn't doing enough dps.

The only "challenge" would be having content pump out damage so big and fast that you'd HAVE to be healing at all times....which would also get monotonous fast.