Quote Originally Posted by NintendoAnimeFan View Post
They actually ARE pure healers by design. Healer specializations are not designed for solo content. You switch to a dps spec for that.
Again, not what I said. I never said healers were designed for solo content. I said that healers weren’t designed to do nothing but heal. In fact, the fact that you can switch to a dps spec for solo content only reinforces that fact. In ffxiv, healers have to have dps moves so they can complete solo content. In WoW, every healer can easily switch to a dps spec for solo content, so if they wanted to the WoW devs could have actually given WoW healers no dps moves. Despite this, a resto Druid (for example) has 2 DoTs, one of which is AoE, and a nuke. If they take feral affinity (which is recommended for dungeons), they get an additional 2 DoTs (both single target), two single target nukes, and and aoe nuke, and these feral damage abilities use their own resource in combo points.

As of 5.0, WoW healers have more in-depth dps mechanics than ffxiv healers, and that’s even before you get to disc priest, WoW’s dps healer.

Edit: I don’t know if WoW was different in the past. I only started checking it out after I despaired of healing in ShB