How would you feel if shields had no upfront healing?

[ty_taurus]

Have you ever played SCH in high-level content? I'd like to see a SCH heal TEA without using Succor, for example.

I have not played through TEA, actually, and that is certainly a very good example of where healers are pushed to used the majority of their tools, but the issue I have with using TEA is that very few people have attempted that level of challenge and it is very much not an example of how content plays in the rest of the game.

Here's the thing, at the highest echelon of play, healing is far more interactive and requires a lot more thought and variety in skill, but that's not the standard FFXIV experience and pretending like it is is what so many of us have issue with. Healers should ALWAYS be fun to play and have ALL of their tools feel important at every level of play, not just the highest and most challenging content that only a fraction of players will even attempt.