Idea to fix controversy about healer dps.

[Tridus]

I don't recall that at all. Is the dev team clearing newly released content with ilevels currently not available to the playerbase? And if not, then how are they clearing it? Please source where he says exactly what you are.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3007437

Remember that when a new tier comes out, people aren't geared yet. Like, if this tier was set for DPS at ilvl 350 for savage, nobody had that on day 1. Thus, if you want to clear on day 1, healer DPS is mandatory. You don't see any early clear groups with pure healers. There's just no room to carry people at that level.

So why don't they? I've never witnessed any tank not at least keep their agro combo going after establishing agro with their AoE. And that's what they tend to get ripped for. To the tanking community, this is the equivalent of a healer standing idle. If a tank actually didn't even use their agro weaponskills and just stood there and auto attacked, and snatching hate back when he loses it; that would be even worse than either afore mentioned tank or healer. The consensus of the community as a whole is that NOBODY stands around doing nothing, so I'd keep the comparisons on equal footing.

It's not equivalent, that's the thing. Go to the tank forum and pitch a tank that's idle 50% of the time or more. Nobody will defend it. Go to the DPS forum and pitch it. Nobody will the defend it.

It's only among the healers that anyone at all thinks this behavior is acceptable. I'm fairly sure that psychology comes from other games where the healer role is almost entirely healing focused and there's much less time/MP to do anything else. And while that's fine, exporting that here doesn't work because that's not the game we have.

If it's the game people want to have, that's a seperate issue. What healing should look like in 5.0 is fair game, but it doesn't change what we have right now.