Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
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.
So if a job simply passively smart-healed its party every server tick just enough to get through all content (with a co-healer), that'd still sufficiently be a "Healer"? (If we just buffed WAR's external healing agency a tad further -- is it then a Tank, Healer, Healer-Tank, or Thaenler?)

If not, it feels like gameplay/kit should definitely play a part in that labeling.