Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
You're posting this in a thread about tanks doing current extreme and savage content without a healer.
No, I'm posting this in response to YOUR claim that tanks have "really good" damage and healers can't even have decent damage.

Here it is again:
Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
Tank:
> And let's also give them really good damage because it feels silly to not have decent output when you're chopping at something with a sword or axe

Healer:
> Decent damage? PREPOSTEROUS! You're the giggling one in the white dress, you can't attack things!
This bum idea that healer damage is somehow bad because it's a little lower than the tanks is the worst healer hysteria I've seen on these forums yet.

You're doing more than half the damage of dps jobs, only a little less damage than tanks, and that doesn't even qualify as "decent" damage for a role that doesn't require anywhere near half the effort for the damage as the others (and never will), can revive downed party members (unlike tanks and all but two dps), and has 10x the amount of healing and party mitigation as the other roles?

And the numbers I'm talking about are what healers are doing RIGHT NOW in current content. So healers aren't needed? Then WHO are these healers healing, exactly, and why? Because somebody's healing, and somebody's being healed.

We all know that healers and even some content could be better designed. But we're not going to sit here and pretend that healers are weak just because you feel like they should be doing as much or more damage than tanks for no reason.