The concept of pure healers

[Acidblood]

tldr; The healer concept is good, raid design doesn't allow it to happen

But how would you design a raid that allowed for such... I mean, if 1 WHM can solo heal it, what stops groups bringing 2 WHMs (or a WHM and a AST/SCH) and making it trivial?

Also, how does this balance feed into 4 man content, where WHM would be absolutely OP and AST/SCH utility doesn't scale nearly as well?

While I agree that the concept of a 'pure healer', ignoring the current context of FFXIV, can work, until such time as dedicated 'support' roles / slots are introduce the idea of 'pure healer' vs. 'support/utility healer' just doesn't work in FFXIV... thus #WHMutility2017