Quote Originally Posted by Silverbane View Post
Gotta love this desperate attempt at cherry-picking and out-of-context quoting, it shows how pathetic the "healers need an overhaul/to be eliminated" crowd's arguments are.

Did I not write that no role is necessary to clear most of the content? Not healer, not tank, not DPS? Did I not provide examples of any two roles being enough?
Yes, I did. So why isn't Silver-strider proposing removing all unnecessary tanking and DPS skills?

And did I not write the healers are still useful? Yes, I did. Just like tanks and DPS are.

So in most content, healers are in the same boat as every other role: useful but not necessary. And this is not an accident, it's by design.

I often wonder why people who protest so vehemently about FFXIV healing can't be happy playing a healer, like I am. I think they doth protest too much, as the saying goes. Is their real motive that they miss having the old "I am your god now" capability of letting people die by not healing them, a capability rooted in them being necessary instead of just useful? Or do they really want to be a damage dealer, but are spoiled by the fast queue pops that healers get?

Well too bad for them. You queue as a healer, then just like a real combat medic, you're not as important as the guys with the belt-feds until something goes wrong. But when things do go wrong -- as they often do, in Duty Roulette -- you are priceless.
You keep enjoying Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis Dosis.

I'll keep arguing that my brain deserves more than that.