As a healer, is it my job to DPS? A new perspective.

[Judge_Xero]

And I'm curious. Did anyone during Alpha actually say that CNJ/WHM were designed with the intention of healing with every GCD?

Nope. CNJ was a DPS class with healing skills even in 1.0.

Farming Raptors for the first year of the game didn't take much healing and the extra DPS helped to level faster.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Nope. CNJ was a DPS class with healing skills even in 1.0.

Farming Raptors for the first year of the game didn't take much healing and the extra DPS helped to level faster.

Both Deciple of Magic could be EITHER DPS or Healer, only doing both, when in smaller groups. Endgame they specced and picked which role they wanted to be. (Such as WHM going VIT for Stoneskin)

As for raptors, idk, those Fricker hit hard if ur no MRD or GLA.
MNK could tank with its evasion, though it woudl get unlucky.
LNC was a joke of a tank, though it had the highest threat, so I was always forced into tanking, since a GLA wasnt going to pull hate off me. But the only fight I didnt tank was Nael, which some better geared DRGs were able to tank that fight.

ARC was pretty much the only class that didnt have the ability to be 1 of 2 roles.

[Cleftobismal]

Nope. CNJ was a DPS class with healing skills even in 1.0.

Farming Raptors for the first year of the game didn't take much healing and the extra DPS helped to level faster.

IIRC wasn't Aeroga or w/e how you spelled it was commonly used to aoe farm?