Suggestion as to how to get people to become healers.

[JunseiKei]

Remove the need to cleric stance.

Have the damage scale of MIND similar to how tanks got the VIT buff.

One of the first games I played did this with the healing class, sort of. Both healers and casters used INT, with healer DPS spells having [generally] less potency than the caster. I actually found it to be a fair balance, healers could DPS (as many of their attack spells came with debuffs, so they wanted to DPS to help debuff targets) and then throw heals out as needed. First time I saw cleric stance, I thought, 'Okay, that's cool, I guess? I don't mind if it will give me a chance to do as much DPS as a blm or smn for a short time.'

Hahaha. Not even close, so I've always wondered why the double healer DPS nerf: cannot sustain DPS for long periods because of the need to heal the team and spell potencies already being far lower and lack of buffs to increase the output (Raging, Internal, etc.). Triple nerf when you consider MP management is not equal across all three healers and is probably the crutch holding WHM back (highest DPS output of the three, worst MP management).

However, back on to the real topic at hand. The best way to get people to start playing a role, like healing, is to stop forcing ideas onto them they would not like. Example: needing to DPS. Actually, healers don't need to DPS in this game. It's been mentioned multiple times. Healer DPS (and tank) is not configured into DPS requirements to clear fights, as mentioned by Yoshida- this includes Savage. Healer spells do not come with debuffs and only Holy comes with a utility that can be immensely useful on large pulls. All a healer needs to do is heal and be alert. Necessity and efficiency are not the same. Harassing people to start DPSing while on the healer role is a great way to turn people hostile and not want to explore. I also don't know how new a person is to healing (you can easily be level 60 and still be 'new' to healing, leveling is not hard in this game).

Don't get me wrong, I will always love the healer that can and does DPS, but I will love the healer that knows their limits. If they aren't able to DPS because of fear or some other judgement call, I'll appreciate that as well- I hate wiping more.