I'm bored when I heal because I need more complex DPS rotations

[Tigore]

I'm ... puzzled with this debate with shield healers being worse than pure healers. Don't SCHs have fairy pets casting Embrace on the party with SGE placing Kardion on the tanks with Kardia? Granted they are more restricted versions of simply placing Regen, but they are free sources of healing provided to make up for the loss of Regens. I do somewhat agree that I don't often meet with a DRK tank that feels like they barely take damage, but that is also because I am using WHM most of the time. The Holy stuns and Aquaveil damage reduction don't mix well with DRK wanting their TBN shields to break within 6 seconds. So I accidentally incur either a DPS loss on them (no mana free Dark Arts proc if the shield doesn't break) or a squishiness effect on them until my stuns are done. Since the stuns stop most attacks anyway, an experienced DRK usually just lets me cast my blinding confetti, then uses TBN when the 3 stuns are up.