Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry View Post
You know what it feels like? It feels Yoshi's making WHM into his little vision of what a healer should look like, while making the others what healers NEED to be like in this game. I know that's probably way off, but it's just how I see it.
Slight detour from the previous topic, but while I admire Yoshi for the work he's done in revamping and elevating FFXIV as a whole, everyone would do well to take his comments with a grain of salt. The man's job is to make sure FFXIV is successful, not to execute personally every role on his development team. He's also entitled to his own opinions, just as the players are entitled to theirs and will continue to do whatever they want within the parameters of the game.

For example, when Yoshi says he doesn't consider healer DPS to be mandatory, he's playing it smart by not antagonizing the customers who enjoy the game one way and who are unlikely to change. Those of us who believe that the choice not to DPS at all as a healer is a selfish and lazy one will wink at him and keep doing what we're doing. It's a win-win from the customer service side of things.