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 .