Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
As we previously worked out, as long as the majority of it's oGCDs are healing-based, then yes it counts as a healer I'd say. Though WHM is a special case because the devs want it to be the 'GCD based healer' for identity reasons or something
I don't think the OGCD criteria is a good example. The only criteria a healer needs to be classified as a healer is to have sufficient HP restorative capabilities expected for the particular game in question at all stages of the game. What I mean by that is, in FFXIV PVE, healers are expected to bring enough healing throughput to sustain the party without KOs for the entire duration of any given fight when mechanics are done correctly without any additional healing provided by other roles. This means alone in 4-man content, or with a partner in 8-man content (where both healers are capable of meeting each other's throughput). So even though Dancer has two forms of healing, for example, it cannot use them often enough to reliably sustain a 4-man group by itself or match another healer in an 8-man group. So Dancer is not a healer, but a support with sustain utility. Now, we do have cases where those lines have been blurred by jobs like Warrior in places, but Warrior isn't always capable of that, which is why it still doesn't fully qualify as a true "healer." Not that the amount of non-healer sustain isn't encroaching on healer responsibility, but it hasn't quite burst the dam wide open yet.