When did this become a trend?

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This is correct. And except for tank busters, the damage that tanks took were so low that healers could effectively DPS with impunity

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This is correct. And except for tank busters, the damage that tanks took were so low that healers could effectively DPS with impunity

This is very much incorrect. I think you've mentioned you haven't actually raided Alexander, so why would you claim something like this without any personal experience? Gordias required a lot from healers also in terms of healing when it came out, in fact much more than any other previous raid (perhaps excluding Savage Coil since I didn't do that one). I remember preys + tank busters being difficult in A1, but also the adds and group-wide AoEs. In A2 there were some very difficult waves (we had trouble with especially the last one and the one after the dolls) and A3 was just a nightmare in its entirety. A4S we didn't beat when it was current (only got to the last phase), but that wasn't a piece of cake either even when we were progressing in it at the end of the raid cycle.