No worries.
No one will be able to see my main by looking at my lodestone and I'm not in any hurry to change that either. Suffice to say I do have experience in current tier raids as a healer and dps. I have yet to clear a12s but I have the rest down.
Noted. Also since you say this the following confuses me
This is contradictory. It either is or it isn't. There's no middle ground here.
SE never intended for players to have to use healer dps to clear content. This was something players figured out they could do to cheese the system and get clears sooner then they would have been able to otherwise. Indeed sooner then the devs intended. If you are playing the game as the devs intended then dps from healers is not required. It's only when we start going by player made rules and player established Metas that healer dps becomes required, but only because players said it is. All content can be cleared in a timely manner without healer dps if everyone is geared appropriately.Originally Posted by Yoshida
Certainly for people who are at world's first level, their goal is to clear it at as low an item level as possible, lower than the one assumed during development. So if you look at the fight and figure out that if it's not numerically possible to clear with four DPS and tanks, you'll need to make up the gap with DPS from healers. Then when those publish clear videos and other people see the healers DPSing, they might think that healers need to be DPSing even though its a situation that only arose because their clear would have otherwise been impossible.
It's grey area only because players have learned to adapt to what they are given in ways the devs did not foresee. Rather than waiting for the dps to be appropriately geared to down the content people figured out they could use healer dps to beat it while being undergeared. I would use the fact that the devs nerfed Holy into oblivion to back this up. They realized what players had figured out. They realized their mistake and they took steps to try to fix it.
So anyway, I am responding in regards to people claiming that the devs intended for people to dps as healers when they clearly didn't.
As to if people should or not is a whole other debate.