[Petition] Have Naoki Yoshida Play Healer and take off the DPS Gloves for a year.

[Loonies]

I get where you're coming from; however, if all you're doing is pressing the healing buttons on your healer of choice then you're bound to notice at least some downtime between when you actually need to heal. As people learn to play the game better, the amount of healing required goes further down and reduces the amount of times you actually need to press those buttons.
So, basically, this idea of "playing a healer just to heal" is not supported in FFXIV because of the design of the battle system. Not unless you're looking to just stand there and do very little, at least. And if you do, then, well, more power to you, but you can keep doing that while the rest of us enjoy actual gameplay (should they ever update healers to have something more to do).

On boss fights its often possible to do damage as an healer, as well with single pulls. The 3 damage spells are good enough for this, when i would like to do more damage i would play a dd job.