The Problem With Healers as a Role Withing FFXIV

[Dearche]

doesn't just offer 5% more damage to raid, etc.

You know, the terrifying thing is that healers, despite having half the damage potency of a DPS, actually manages between a third and half the average damage of any given DPS in actual raids. While healing. According to FFLogs. That's close to 15% of all raid damage, not the 5% you mentioned.

For me, that's really telling the state of healing in duties once you consider that almost all our DPS options are GCDs (WHM being the only one with oGCD damage abilities). It's really hard to call ourselves dedicated healers when 90% of our GCDs are being used to deal damage.