DSR was just solo healed

[Hellebore_Ghrian]

To me, this is the last piece of evidence we needed to be sure that the healing and mitigation provided by non-healer jobs should really be reduced.

[Tridus]

To me, this is the last piece of evidence we needed to be sure that the healing and mitigation provided by non-healer jobs should really be reduced.

This. It's already a joke in normal mode content that the tank is the healer and also the tank, but to see it reach Ultimate shows that there simply isn't enough healing required for healers to actually be engaged healing. And a lot of that is because there's so much healing coming from other sources.

The only time you really need to work hard in healing is if you've got a group that gets into real trouble by messing up a lot. The rest of the time, healers are just not very good DPS. That's not really true of the other roles. Does SE have no healers on the dev team, or is "we technically have healing but we don't want healers thinking about it when they could be mashing Glare instead" the actual design goal, here?

[Mapleine]

Anything would be better than what we have right now. It's a fake role, a fidget spinner you give to kids to keep them distracted while the rest of the group does their work. As someone who has been a career healer since XI but can barely stomach it in XIV it's very frustrating.

As is, you could dismantle the entire role and dish out a few more role actions or up consumable use and the game would very sincerely improve in both depth and usability.

It doesn't matter how many healing buttons there are when there's zero thought process or need for any of it, WHMs had to beg to even be able to throw their useless healing into the void where you'd be clawing at the walls for Lillies in any other MMO raid. Cracking potions over heads in retro JRPGs genuinely has more tension and triage than 99.99% of healer gameplay in XIV.

I have no opinion on what they do anymore, my only care at this point is to actually see the development team lift a finger to do something about genuine rot.