Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
This was always the strangest of bizarre takes to me. I've played multiple MMOs before this one. FF14 is the first game I've ever seen with I pLaY a HeALeR TO heAL, HeALeRS SHouLd HeAL ONLY advocacy group. I've never seen an RPG where anyone's argued this. It's the weirdest box to cage the healer role in, and it's so anti-reality that it hurts my brain.
Keep in mind in other MMOs healers mostly just supported with buffs and all that as well. Damage moves were there, but if you were using them literally you had nothing to do, which did not happen that often. One of the MMOs I played I was having to throw out buffs left and right when I wasn't healing, and I got to use a single damage move once every 30s-1m depending on where we were at and the group. I have a sneaking suspicion that was part of the mindset, the fact that healers in other MMOs were mostly just plain support, DPS was something you just didn't do that often.