How would you feel if shields had no upfront healing?

[Dearche]

To be honest, I find it strange that people complain about healing not being engaging and challenging when the game does provide content that is engaging and challenging to heal. It's like they're saying "I want to be challenged as a healer but I don't want to do the challenging content".

This isn't really about being challenging though. It's about being engaging.

Why is every DPS job engaging regardless of the difficulty of content, yet every single healer job isn't unless if you're playing an ultimate, which is designed for less than 1% of the player base? I dip into DRG as a side job and I find that engaging 100% of the time, even when I'm just farming roulettes for some tomestones. And that's a job that most DPS seem to think is one of the least engaging jobs amongst them.

This would be a much better argument if we could say that at least half of all healers feel that playing healing is engaging regardless of content difficulty, but it's a hard sell when playing healer means playing a glare mage 90% of the time.