An arguement towards having Healing on DPS

[Acidblood]

Nobody's asking for a Drain skill that fits into the core rotation or replaces having a healer.

The thinking is that much as healers can deal damage just not as well as a DPS, a DPS should be able to self-heal but not as well as a dedicated healer (or tank for that matter), at least for the purposes of solo content.

Also, literally nobody mentioned Raise or any form of utility. Drain explicitly would be a self-heal.
This isn't some grand group aid intended to come "at the cost of" damage, it's literally just for having a way to hold yourself up when a mob is eating your face without having to wait 2 minutes for Manaward. Much like you're not doing damage while you're casting Vercure, the act of using it would come with a damage penalty in itself, so you shouldn't have to worry about "watered down DPS" in exchange.

Then why not just play RDM?

Edit: And Second Wind is a utility, the same with Blood Bath, a personal utility maybe, but I'm sure it's still counted in the overall makeup of the class (BLM has the highest DPS for a reason).

Edit: As for Tanks and Healers, they need to do reasonable DPS so they aren't chained to a DPS class to do, well, anything... the same is not true of DPS classes, world mobs are not so difficult as to require self-healing. Yes, there is certain 'solo' content where self-healing is very useful (again, play a RDM), but if all DPS could self-sustain then why would there be any need of (or benefit for playing) Tanks or Healers?

NB. And I brought up Raise because it is the other thing that people keep asking for BLM to be given, but IMO BLM should never ever have.