What are the most common reasons people don't dps?

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The problem could exactly be the fact that different team works on different things at different time. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that raid bosses were designed early so it possible that SB content wasn't actually fully tuned to the changes. that could explain really weird things like ExDeath casting doom completly randomly at the staet of the fight no apparent reason than forcing healer to have Esuna.

This is how it works in game development. You tune stuff until the end and work on different stuff at the same time. Could they have done better at the start? Probably, but i must say compared to other games this game is really balanced.

SCH was without any single doubt the weakest healer at SB lunch and not taking into account that bane nerf and the new cross-class system stripped them of all AoE damage possibilities is the kind of miss you really can't do if you really understand how the class is played.

You have a point with the aoe dmg, but i still disagree that the scholar was the worst healer.

I don't think it's a coicidence either that it was buffed exactly everytime a new more difficult content got out.

The last buffs with succor for instance, was totally unnecessary in many good scholar mains opinions. I agree these changes aren't a coicidence, but i think it comes down to the high skill ceiling and imo many scholar can't get the most out of it. In the right hands, the healer is in its current state the strongest overall. Imo they buff the class for these reasons and not because they think the scholar is to weak.

While I generally respect the care and skill that goes into FFXIV, the dev team has demonstrated that they do not understand certain aspects of gameplay and job balance as well as their full-time play testers (i.e. the community).

You don’t actually need to be very good to clear content; you simply need to be able to memorize an encounter and build a limited mental flow chart (totally by design, since they want anyone to be able to clear with enough practice).

One of their mistakes in recent times was the original shake it off skill. Imo this skill was created before the developers decided to remove the debuff of beserk. Square isn't perfect as you said, but overall i respect them for what they do.