Make healers DPS with four or five healing actions

[Hyperia]

As it stands now, nearly all essential healing can be done by other jobs besides healers. They really do not know what to do with healers, this is the core problem. Once I saw Savage and Ultimate get cleared with no healers, I knew the entire system is completely broken and in need of a major rework, but we all know that won’t happen.

Sooo… look forward to more healing Warriors, etc. I want to heal more but we have 10 years of content to show that we are needed less and less. I can see the day when tanks and healers are gone, replaced with specific actions in all DPS jobs. Sad day that will be, sad day.

[Aldath]

As it stands now, nearly all essential healing can be done by other jobs besides healers. They really do not know what to do with healers, this is the core problem. Once I saw Savage and Ultimate get cleared with no healers, I knew the entire system is completely broken and in need of a major rework, but we all know that won’t happen.

Sooo… look forward to more healing Warriors, etc. I want to heal more but we have 10 years of content to show that we are needed less and less. I can see the day when tanks and healers are gone, replaced with specific actions in all DPS jobs. Sad day that will be, sad day.

This is more an issue with encounter design and less about class kits. Yes, I agree Warriors and Dancers shouldn't be able to heal, but it doesn't matter who does the healing when high end content is all about damage avoidance and pre programmed attack patterns where taking as much as a hit means the battle will fail. Which leads to what you say: in order to keep up with current boss design, casters will eventually have to play as pseudo RDPS, and tanks and Healers will just become DPS with extra utility.

I also find it ironic, how Yoshida's mocking response, "just go play Ultimates", is even less relevant and insulting now than before. You're telling Healers to go play the content that makes it safer to NOT use one. Healers funnily enough get to do more stuff in normal content than endgame.