Actually i act like the OP but with a different cls - every new (j)rpg i start i look for a range cls like archer/hunter/sniper/bard whatever.

talking about healers confession i played Ragnarok Online for more than 6 years with different Healer Builds (pure support pve, mvp (like trials in ff), war of emperium (mass-pvp atking and defending the own fc castle) and pvp). There you have to build different builds for different content - joining FF14 was a disappointment at first... at the time i started there only were whms for pure support and hybrid sch who thought they were more like dds than a healer. getting in touch with hw and ast i started to change my opinion and raised all 3 up to the max.

Nowadays i love to play all 3 healer cls equally - but im still missing support skills/cls like time mages or mediators. ff-healing is sadly still basic compared to other mmo support cls. : /