Quote Originally Posted by BubblyBoar View Post
I disagree, White Wind isn't enough to be a healer in content. If you had 2 BLUs healing you in O1, you'd wipe, even in normal mode. Hell, BLUs can't even heal Weeping City without help from other healers. And 2 forms of mitigation does not make you a tank. It is missing some pretty crucial role actions to do its job. So what can BLU do? It can DPS. It has a DPS rotation. It has DPS role actions. It is a DPS. Just like a heal and a rez doesn't make you not a DPS, an AoE heal and a defensive stance does not make BLU not a DPS.
if you were level 70, youd be able to heal 40k-50k hp every 2.5 seconds, now, i dont know what type of output healers per second are supposed to have, but i feel like a tank should have a hard time dying with 2x that heal amount. yeah, there are mp considerations, but even with 5 seconds per heal that would be massive.

regardless, my point is not that blue mage are better healers overall than healers, merely that they go way beyond dps regular limitations in healing and tanking. Its not questionable that they can do it outside of savage, which is where the vast majority of players play/use DF