For those who main/semi-main a DPS (e.g. DNC, RDM) but like Healers...

[Risvertasashi]

Does "ex healer" after near a decade of it count for the purposes of this thread?

If it does, then, there's a few things I like:
1. More buttons yes, but
2. I can pretty well ignore the rest of the party. In raids I'm still often the one that can point out who made a mistake and exactly what they did wrong, though. (But I also usually keep silent unless it's asked for or their failures are otherwise disruptive - criticisms often aren't that welcome). Not that I didn't enjoy healing in it's way, but it's also kind of chill to have so much less to worry about. I'm just in the world of my own rotation.
3. I get treated better. Like, please don't get me wrong, I'm not going to throw a tantrum about not getting loot as quickly as others. But it's also nice to not have groups go from "Our healer doesn't know their rotation" when they've hard prioritized DPS and then be shocked at the drastic increase in DPS when gear finally does come my way, or have a tank try to blame me after they take 5x their health from a failed mechanic, other nonsense like that.

I guess I could TL;DR it as "It affects me less when people do dumbs".

The mobility is nice too. Healers are kinda like old style BLM. Modern BLM hoofs it much less than modern healers do, and then pretty much every other DPS job is much better than that.

Then, lastly, I often play a DPS job that can res. So I'm still impactful at letting the party recover from mistakes, which was a big part of what I liked about playing healers anyways. Spreadsheet-planning healchecks is kinda meh to me.

I'd still return to heal-maining in a heartbeat, though, if healers were primarily about healing.