Quote Originally Posted by LilimoLimomo View Post
Healers in FF14 remind me of a scene from the second Kill Bill film. A bouncer arrives late to work, and his boss chastises him for it. The bouncer looks around the empty club and says something along the lines of, "I don't see how this is a problem, there's nobody here to bounce." And his boss responds, "Are you saying that the reason you weren't doing your job is because there's no job for you to do? You make a very good point."

And that's really how I feel about healers.

Adding more DPS to healers doesn't make me want to go back to healing; it makes me want to play a healer even less. When I want to DPS, I play a DPS class. I play healers because I want to heal.

First of all, I think your analogy could be improved a bit. In your analogy, the boss has made two valid points- the first is that bouncer should have been there on time - right now, we aren't discussing whether the healer should be included. Regarding whether the bouncer is needed at all- fair enough, I see how you want to apply this to how you feel about healers.

Now we get to the "how do you feel about healing". I don't know how you feel about clicking 1 button to DPS. I know that if no one needs healing, I don't want to just stand there, and clicking one button (since I just have a dot) and having an occasional card flip could be improved upon.

That doesn't "make me a DPS" in my mind, as someone who had a DPS main for many years there's a distinct difference in how that feels. As a healer or a support (I've enjoyed both) the enjoyable part is being able to balance both DPS and healing, and where it was fun was when I had a balanced selection of skills for both. That's not the case presently for healers in FFXIV.