Healer kit adjustment idea, 40% dps to 60% heals/utility

[Ayche]

If there's one thing this thread shows clearly, it's that the people who want a more interesting damage kit and the people who want more healing to be done are both greatly unsatisfied. Who is the modern healer even designed for anyway?

The question is pretty tautological, so I would just say "The people who still play healer."

[Supersnow845]

The question is pretty tautological, so I would just say "The people who still play healer."

I mean the game forces healers to do literally any content

How common would healers be if you weren’t forced to always have 1/4 of your party be a healer

[Ayche]

I mean the game forces healers to do literally any content

How common would healers be if you weren’t forced to always have 1/4 of your party be a healer

Well yes, FFXIV is working under the confines of being a game where the gameplay is that of FFXIV.
This is not an attempt to be snide. Enough digital ink has been spilled enough on the forums, I know how deep this discussion goes.
But the counterfactual at the heart of that question requires far too much alternative reality thinking that it also goes nowhere. I cannot tell you if FFXIV would had had more or less players playing it if it had always been a Monster Hunter style game, or just Guild Wars 2, or Vermintide, or if it had played like Destiny 2. Overwatch could be said to be an "role based squad game" in some similar vein, and there the popularity of supports versus tanks and dps jumps up and down from season to season, usually a powerful new healer gets people playing more healers. Sometimes tanks are the most unpopular role. Responsibility is the biggest poison for voluntarism.