Nobody Really Wants To Heal

[Penthea]

I would rather have zero DPS skills and play content that actually hurts. I don't care if it's as simple as more unavoidable damage, more poxes upon the party I have to esuna or more bleeding mechanics I have to HOT through.

I just want to heal, is that so much to ask? It's very annoying to be expected to play a healer as if I'm a sad excuse of a DPS class with healing as an afterthought depending on who can't move in time.

My biggest problem with the whole "healers should always dps!" mentality is that healers are expected to be hybrids so they must use both their offensive and support spells, while dps are rarely expected to use their defensive and supportive abilities aside from ressing. I can count on one hand the amount of times I have seen a dps being told off for not using support abilities which would actually permit healers more to do dps, yet I see snarky remarks about dps being directed to healers pretty often. And this isn't because dps usually use their full kit. In my experience they rarely do.

The cherry on top is when I look up some of the players in these forums on fflogs who complain about healers being unable to balance both dps and healing, while often their own logs show some pitiful dps numbers and usually an utter lack of using support abilities.

The hypocrisy drives me mad.