Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
If this were to actually come down to a matter of categories, rather than playflow, shouldn't we note that not even one of those is unique to Healers/"Supports", though?
Tanks have external and internal mitigation. Melee DPS have internal mitigation.

Most DPS have external buffs.

All debuff enemies.

Most can technically heal.

All can damage.

Most Magical DPS also have rez.
And, heck, Chain Strategem is merely a worse (in being limited to a single enemy target) raid buff.
That's the problem.

The FFXIV Devs have offloaded so much of what is traditionally a healer's responsibility to other players.

Other players shouldn't have so many self healing options. What's the point of healers then? A current savage tier should NOT have been able to be accomplished without a single healer. That should have been a MAJOR wake up call to the devs. But no, they doubled down and gave PLD amazing self healing on a short CD skill.

I'm of the mindset that lots of that mob debuffing should be removed from DPS and given to healers. Most of them don't use their debuffs anyway, or their self heals (bloodbath)