Is healing broken?

[cougarel]

I feel like people forget that the whole healers doing DPS in an MMORPG is a rather new concept. It wasn't too many years ago, in another game, where trying to DPS as a healer would get one chastised by their team mate. This whole "green DPS" is a rather new concept, in the grand scheme of things. This is only a slight shift back toward the previously established status quo. Not something to pearl clutch about.

Actually i can assure you it's not, i was doing damage as a healer/support when playing Lineage 2 back in 2004.
To farm efficiently you needed to have at least one of the class healers doing dots or pure damage on mobs.
But then again, Lineage 2 was more complex in support classes versus what we have in ff 14 .

[Xaruko_Nexume]

Actually i can assure you it's not, i was doing damage as a healer/support when playing Lineage 2 back in 2004.
To farm efficiently you needed to have at least one of the class healers doing dots or pure damage on mobs.

Well thats fine if your experience was different than mine. I distinctly remember being told not to waste mana casting nearly worthless shadow spells in vanilla and TBC WoW. I feel like DPS as a healer did not really take off until well after Cataclysm in that game because of mana and the damage healers dealt being all but useless.