Quote Originally Posted by Brandedblade View Post
The only thing I'm seeing from this is that dps healer utility is too powerful for those specific two jobs, the fact highly skilled players can negate the need for healing by stacking specific jobs and thus killing their LB generation does not mean "Omg healers are useless". YOu got to keep in mind a majority of players aren't playing at your gigachad level of skill.
Whilst feats like the one in the thread are nothing new and I agree that a job's core purpose shouldn't be negated, but this is one of those scenarios where it's not a regular group. Though I think it does draw attention to how crazy tanks changes can be. For sure having done that EX fight, I didn't feel useless as a healer, and I think it worked well with my kit. Though admittedly a fairly easy EX as we cleared early on in our second lockout and that may be a contributing factor to why those WAR could do it.

What did raise some red flags for me was doing the level 89 dungeon, I died early on during the second boss because I misread a mechanic. I wasn't needed for the whole fight. I've seen it happen 3 or 4 more times in general where the healer has died in EW. It used to be a thing in ShB too, we ran one of the late dungeons and the healer DC'd at the start and we made it all the way to the final boss before another showed up. And in each of these cases it wasn't that they were exceptional. But I think it ends up raising the question for the healer: was I really needed?
And I think it shows that for a chunk of this game's content that healers are just green DPS. And honestly, I think it'd be less of a complaint if there were the tools to compensate. Whilst I am happy with how SGE has turned out, I do feel this remains a bigger issue for the other healing jobs.

I wouldn't want to see them take it away from the tanks because it's another element to their job to make it interesting, but it inevitably will contribute to healer down time, so give healers more interesting stuff in their downtime. It seems a fair trade IMO.