Major flaws in healing design.

[ForteNightshade]

It happens all the time. I just finished witnessing this happening. A 99% "healer" spamming glare over and over, and then the tank dying after taking a tank buster at 60% HP, then not getting shielded or healed, prior or after the tank buster, resulting in death.

At i481, 60% of my HP is roughly 87,000. What tank busters outside of EX and Savage will hit hard enough through Vengeance/Raw that a auto-attack will finish them off? Maybe Shiva but there's absolutely no reason to top up a tank to nearly full HP in baby content. Which segues nicely into...

This was a 99% savage healer in a story mode raid, refusing to heal.

Guess why that is? Healing is trivial in story mode raids. In fact, back in Stormblood a friend and I did a little experiment. We queued into Phantom Train and did precisely zero DPS—even going so far as to out ranage Assize and Earthly Star so they wouldn't clip him. The healing requirements were so laughable, I could have /sit and gone to make dinner without her even noticing. We then did the opposite; DPSing extremely aggressively and playing "how low can the party go". Given the second set of tanks used CDs better, they were even more comfy than the ones we were spam healing. Nevertheless, our combined HPS was comically low yet no one was remotely in danger.

The simple fact is healing requirements in story mode content is a complete joke. You could program a bot to handle it. That's why you see such aggressive playstyles. Sure, some people take it too far and allow people to die but it's nowhere near as prevalent as you're insinuating. If you want healers to focus more on healing, convince the dev team to make healing more of a requirement so the above scenario can't happen. No role should be able to AFK from their primary responsibility and it have no impact. Healers can. Or at least one of them can.