Suggestion as to how to get people to become healers.

[Welsper59]

Any spitball conceptual examples? I'd sincerely like to hear more on this.

You mean in terms of the DPS healer? Pretty much what Atlaworks said below your post. If you've played WoW, it'd be akin to Discipline Priest during various points of the game. I think some other MMORPGs sport this style too... maybe Rift or Allods? I can't remember.

Basically, you do DPS as you normally would, but it simultaneously heals someone, where the game prioritizes who gets healed through the Smart Healing system by a percentage of damage done. Usually this means healing the person with lowest HP. On some occasions, this works with AoE spells as well, where it'll do damage AND heal people in radius. Obviously, as a healer, you'll want some manual spells to heal with too (and AoE heals), so those are usually available as well, though your options may not be as versatile or powerful as the more traditional healer. Perhaps either extremely weak or no Regen effects, for example.