Suggestion as to how to get people to become healers.

[Mycow8me]

There's tons of things they could do beyond just dpsing in their downtime. In past games healers were often also buffers. One of the problems that whm suffers is that it does not have player enhancement tools similar to astro or scholar (althought scholar mostly only has these skills on fairy). When is WHM getting haste or hastega? It could easily lower TP requirements by 20% or something to lower the TP demand of faster attacks.

I personally think healers should have had a buffering toolkit since back in 2.0 but only recently have we started to see some of that. Whm needs haste or hastega, maybe even a shell cast for a target party member that reduces magic damage by 10% for whatever duration. healers don't need to be dpsing only in their offtime, plenty of that time could be spent just keeping DoTs and buffs up. I know this would be met with alot of "Balancing issues" but devs won't know till they try. I honestly think they could meet the dps argument halfway and allow room for support dps via buffering the people who are aspost to be DPSing so they can better do their job. Would that raise the dps average for raids? Thats up to the devs as well.