All of this nonsense is entirely caused by how healing works in this game and the nature of how players take damage.

If players took damage in XIV like they do in other MMOs, healers would be too busy healing for anyone to complain about them not DPSing enough. Instead, healers do more DPSing than healing, which clouds the hell out of the issue as to what exactly healers should or shouldn't be doing. This sort of thing shouldn't fall into a grey area and yet that's exactly what has happened to it.

I mentioned it earlier in this thread but I'll say it again: I traded my globe for a gun a few weeks back and I've never been happier (my fiancee mains PLD so I get instant queues regardless).

If I'm going to spend most of my time DPSing anyway, I may as well be doing it on a class with a fun rotation...