Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
That's because you can't fix stupid. Square is under the impression that adding a glut of free, instant, potent healing tools will fix stupid. Absent a constant, instance-wide passive pulsing Cure 3 every server tick, that's not going to happen.

Unfortunately, because healers are "them"s, and not "us"es, the perceived solution is to strip all semblance of gameplay away so that "they" (the healers) can facilitate "our" (the DPS) gameplay.

They desperately need someone in the designer's seat who not only has experience playing healers in RPGs, but also isn't a gasping HeALerS ShouLd HeAL oNLY Sylphie anime healer. Their perception of skilled healers as pacifist Cure-spamming waifus is part of the problem.
I'll never understand this ''healers should not do damage'' mentality. Combat medics are infinitely more awesome and useful. The entire notion of a pacifist doesn't make any sense in the first place. Why would anyone even want to handicap themselves like that? Imagine if you're a field medic but you're refusing any fire arms because you think healers should not do damage.