Quote Originally Posted by T-Owl View Post
I mean, lets be honest, the history of optimization in this game has been so far tanks and healers doing anything in their power to circumvent their additional role as much as possible in favor of doing dps. DPS stance tanking was a common think back when it was a thing and we see how insanely high dps uptime is for healers, so at this point dps and healers are just roles that exchange complexities and button bloat in their dps rotation for additional responsibilities with a small uptime of having to engage with them, only that healers toolkits are not reflective of how much time they spend performing a dps role compared to their side-function. FF14 just has no dedicated healers on a level of wow, where a high percentage of your casts in traditional healer classes are focussed on healing the party, with distinct toolkits making performing this primary role distinct.
Which is why they don't work. They present an illusion of choice.

Also, healers in DPS stance wasn't the common thing. It kind of was for SCH, but was much less used by AST and especially WHM. Back in ARR, WHMs were dedicated healers of that type. In ShB, it's kind of drifting back that way due to Lilies and how they work as GCD heals, but it's kind of a half-position. HW healer balance was just...stupidly bad. SB was horribad for WHM.