Quote Originally Posted by Banriikku View Post
"Healers should heal" - i dont know but what and where ? What MMO does this ?
WoW = nope
GW2 = nope
ESO = nope
Lost Ark= nope
Black Deset = nope

Just to name some of the big one's and some of them dont even use the trinity system (tank, healer, dps). I dont know how or from what they draw the conclusion but no game i know of has the "healers should heal" nonsense. For a simple reason: Because its boring and bad game design.
The only game other then FF I can speak to in this list is WoW and the healers over there absolutely have healing as the priority. To prove my case I checked Warcraft Logs, and here's what I found

(These are the number of casts)





Now, WoW has a couple advantages in their healer design that lets them do this. One, there are classes that can heal by doing damage, like Sage but more in depth then just "Heal Kardia target for 130", like Mistweaver Monk or Discipline Priest. Two, the raid comps are more flexible, so you can trade healers out for actual DPS classes if the not a lot of healing is required.