Quote Originally Posted by Boblawblah View Post
The whole no healer TOP run argument feels like someone watching a level 1 Souls run and coming to the conclusion that the game is too easy, and so everything needs to be re-balanced so that it's impossible to beat the game at level 1. Are there issues with Tanks? Probably. Healers? Sure. Does the no healer TOP run mean as much as people think it does? Nope.

Besides, if you really want to remove these types of runs just get rid of rezzing on RDM and SMN and healers become 100% necessary.
yeah the only difference with that statement is that Dark Souls is <ahem> a single player game. Nobody is going to care if you do cheese strats or all sorts of crazy things to clear something. But this is a multiplayer game where content is done with real players, so balance is much more important in an MMO space. Why do you think we have balance changes in every patch?