I've largely switched to Dancer since I last posted here. I have had some good times healing poorly-geared groups in Aurum Vale and other ARR dungeons recently. It only pointed out how inverted fun is for a healer. The worse, more under-geared the group is, the more fun I have.

We seem to be at the point where we may have to just accept the direction the devs have taken healers and how the role clashes with the game's design. They really could just remove healers and spread some of the abilities across the support DPS classes like Dancer and Red Mage at this stage, sadly.