DPSing as a healer

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You do know that Dagger is mainly a Summoner and that the whole game runs around that characteristic of hers, right? And that her Trance command reflects that?
The main healer in this game is Eiko, and no one measures her by her Summoning abilities (she only has 4 summons) but by her ability to buff different allies while Trance'd.

Aside from that, I never said healers should be prohibited from DPSing. Since the first Final Fantasy, 'healers' (aka White Mages) had one of the best (if not THE best) damage spells in the game, Holy. Their were never judged by that but by how they could support the party with healing spells, buffs and barriers. Oh, and do I need to say that, in FFXIV, we totally lack Nul-spells and buffs and that we are extremely limited in the barrier section?