Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
I think the analogy falls apart a bit when you consider that the four healers are part of the same role, therefore they have to be related. Probably makes more sense to say that each role is a hobby, like 'sports' or 'video games' or 'reading books', and within that category you have different things. Like the four healers can be four different sports, and some sports involve a ball, some don't (running/highjump/longjump), but at the end of the day they're all linked in that they require some amount of physical exertion, like how healers have 'healing' as their core. And regardless of the sport, all of them have a fair amount of depth to 'master' said sport. Pretty sure most people agree that the four healers should feel different in their damage, there's just disagreement on why one should be left as it is
Well, here's the thing, if we stick to the analogy, then the thing they're part of is videogames.

So you asking them to do sports would be you asking them to do a thing outside of their role. At the end of the day, DPSing IS outside of the healer role itself. We have an entire role devoted to that.

Now, if we had roles of Tank, Healer, and Support, where there was no dedicated DPS role, then sure. But we aren't in that game. We have three roles, one of which is DPS. And healer is not that role.

Now, it's fine, then, to offer Wi Sports as one of the options (e.g. SGE that heals by doing damage). But it shouldn't be all of them. Since the role is videogames, not sports.