Quote Originally Posted by Succor View Post
While I agree it's great for healers (or any class) to have different identities, it's difficult in practice to differentiate too much. Being different means having different strengths and weaknesses. But then people start complaining "why can class X do Y and I can't??? It's so unfair, I'm being punished for playing X!!!!", so devs make everything more same-y and bland. And then conversely people complain that everything is too similar.
We went from 4 different tanks (offensive, defensive, magic mitigation, burst) to MT/OT, then that didn't even pan out so we're left with 4 tanks that are clones of each other.

The FFXIV dev team can't even balance MT/OT or Shield/Regen healers (IMHO). Everything has to be the same. Meanwhile, there's lots of variance on the DPS side of the house.

Shows you where their priorities are.