Healers

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And when you rez, heal the person.

I'd counter with "don't start attacking while you are invulnerable for 5-7 seconds because nothing is more annoying than someone dying the second they're back up because I was mid-cast on the heal and they derp themselves to death"

You're playing the wrong game. The first technique in every healer's list is an offensive spell. The objective of combat is to eliminate the enemy. Healing is secondary because damage is designed with that aspect in mind, and so it always comes out balanced around healer's power.

Healer's Job in FFXIV:

1) Assist in Eliminating the enemy.
2) Keep people alive by whatever means you have, so that they can eliminate the enemy.

To just heal is to ignore one half of your job, and it prolongs elimination of the enemy, requiring more healing to happen and also causing the group to come closer to defeat by the enemy.

You do both in this game because it is designed for you to be able to do both. In solo play you must do both. Do both.

Newp. This is akin to saying a tank's primary job is to DPS and mitigating and holding threat is secondary. The primary role of a healer is to heal. Damage is secondary. I'll interrupt a DPS spell to heal; I don't interrupt heals to DPS.

Tha vast majority do not do "both" and its become a glaringly serious problem.

The newest healer Sage heals via doing DPS, albeit small but on single bosses with avoidable mechs and Random aoe damage you can pretty much just DPS your heart out and use the instant heals and the party will be fine.

My favorite is the newbie sages who only "heal" with Kardion. Fun times.

Uh oh, another cure 1 spammer.

To be fair, the OP is a tank.