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[Driavna]

It's a difficult task.

On what metric can you judge "more effort"?
Look at the healers, their best potion is not the one you get from DRN. If you base yourself on preparations, that's already the wrong way.
You can't judge on DPS either, it would be a toxic situation where 2 healers would DPS rather than healing teammates in need. You'd also see mages standing in AoE for an extra GCD.

At most, you could base yourself on survival like duels. Avoid every aoe and survive everything. Not using a potions would be a quick K.O. against raid wides.
It's not the ideal solution as it would be frustrating to the player dying again and again, at most they could be granted an Echo after too many K.O. but their rewards would be minimal.

One is bringing and using actions/items in general, another could be mechanics and the last one could be perfomance based in a metric set by SE. Anyway, there are enough actions/items to be healer independent on that content.

Will be perfect? Probably not but better than current status quo. Only thing you can't do IMO is giving less rewards, some players are doing their best and trying hard.