The concept of pure healers

[Acidblood]

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So, what you're saying is that you would be happy to have a class in the game that could only ever be considered 'balanced' in the latest tier of savage raiding, and all other content is easy anyway, so it doesn't matter if it gets made even easier by removing any semblance of healing challenge from the equation (while still leaving WHM with nothing to do in lesser content but regen and spam Holy)?

It's also worth noting that most of the group content in FFXIV is done via the duty finder (the merits of which is a whole other discussion), and I hardly think it is worth balancing for raid statics at the expense of wildly different healing ability in duty finder groups (Inc. 24 man raids), especially when there is such a better alternative; i.e. added WHM utility.

As I said, until FFXIV fully adopts support roles, with dedicated slots* for such, the idea of pure vs. support just doesn't work (especially with the Devs track record of continually buffing 'support' jobs until they equal (or even exceed) the 'pure' jobs in their primary role).

* By dedicated slots I mean something like turning 4-mans into 5-mans, with the additional slot being 'support' and / or having hybrid support slots (similar to what you can do with the party finder) that can be filled by either a pure job or one of the support jobs... e.g. instead of simply a second 'healer' slot, there would be a 'healer / support' slot that could be either WHM, SCH (hypothetical pure healers) or BRD, RDM, NIN, AST, WAR (hypothetical 'support' jobs).