TOP cleared with no healers

[Renathras]

That doesn't mean Clerics and Chanters were a "majority" as Rehayem claimed. They never were. As a frequent player I actually regularly tracked the numbers on ALL classes, as I wanted to see who was top level. Certain expansions levelling was really slow so you got a sense of how many were levelling quickly and who they were. While Clerics were common classes, and Chanters were improved from "no one wants to play this" to middle of the road, the two simply never had more players than all the DPS classes combined. They just didn't. Rehayem wants us to believe that in most other MMOs, Healers are more popular than DPS. That's laughable and makes me wonder what MMOs he played that this is the case. It wasn't even the case in Aion, which had more healers than most games.

Par for the course?

That's not to say that healing here is perfect. I was MT healer in the #1 world-prog raid guild in EQ2. My healing at times single-handedly saved raids, sometimes being the only person alive out of 24 people due to failed mechanics and recovering for a win. My skill expression mattered. I don't feel like it matters here for 95% of my time healing, and for most content a healer is very replacable with a lot of other players with little to no notice.

Agreed.

People aren't even saying that Healing in FFXIV is perfect. People are contesting the issue is Healer design/kits alone or exclusively, pointing out that encounter design and Tank/DPS kits are at least partly to blame, and probably more.

And the idea that any game in MMO history had more Healers than DPSers is insanely laughable. Even if you counted ALL Support (as a fourth role) as "Healer" somehow, it's dubious if that would even hold then.