Optional, yet better solution for Healing roles

[Melorie]

It's hard to express in words how much I hate bringing up tunnel-visioning healers as an arguement in any capacity when talking about design. With how much people bring up anecdotal stories of this one time 4 months ago when a healer didn't heal the tank in time and they wiped once during an expert roulette, one might start thinking that this was a serious issue that was destroying the FFXIV experience, yet it's not. I've dropped healing as of Shadowbringers and I can count the amount of times I've wiped in a dungeon because the healer forgot to heal on one hand in the last 2 years. And you know what happened in each of those experiences? They said "my bad" and we finished the dungeon like any other afterward. People make mistakes sometimes, and that's going to happen whether healers have greater depth in their DPS tools or not. It's not because we have DPS and balancing to prevent those rare and anecdotal scenarios is a one-way ticket to destroying any game.

This. I'm so tired of this. Every time I come into this forum it's the same "BUT WHAT IF HEALERS ARE DPSING INSTEAD OF HEALING AAA??"... There are DPS out there not doing their rotation, or tanks that don't use their cooldowns, it sometimes happens, some people play the game badly, or sometimes they do mistakes and forget to do something they should - doesn't really mean that it's a good excuse to keep pushing us into a AoE heal > burst heal > glare&dia forever and forever till the keycap 1 in your keyboard breaks. The mental gymnastics people do to defend this is amusing.

Besides, everyone has to do mechanics. If anything, I would say that most fights aren't that mechanic heavy on healers? I'm not saying that healing doesn't have its own sort of pressure - but acting like it deserves to be treated as a three-button class just because you have to do the stuff that everyone else does... *sigh*.