Told you we'd get screwed.

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Main hand is probably as best a criteria as one can get, even if people who have content on farm will get those for basically all jobs they have leveled.

Let's be honest here though, there will never be a time where nobody plays healer, because then you simply wouldn't get anything done ever.

Someone will always have to play a healer for their dungeons or their static, even if they absolutely despise playing it.

that can be true, but can it really be higher than tanks when healers suck so bad?

if you look at MH Item Level distribution, WHM is the highest among ALL jobs

SCH and AST are somewhere near middle but still higher than some DPS jobs

I know the part reason healers have higher average MH item level is because there're only 3 jobs, and I'm not saying healers don't deserve to change

What I want to say is current healers, despite we dislike it, actually appeal to larger player base

As long as healer population remain as it is now, or even go higher in EW, it's less likely that the healer design get changed.