Dawntrail's mediatour dungeon was already cleared without healers.

[Turtledeluxe]

Honestly part of me isn’t even that surprised by this, as bad as it is. I truly long for the days healers in ffxiv get to be an actual role and not just ‘one-button-dps-with-healing-cool-down’, but frankly it doesn’t surprise me to see that we’ll be waiting yet another expansion before they can actually be a fun role to play.

I really hope this is just some accidental fluke with the media build and not an indicator of how Dawntrail dungeon gameplay will generally be. Making any role redundant in a ‘role-based’ game is a pretty glaring error in my opinion. I really hope we don’t up back here ( again ) in 8.0, but based on their track history I’d start getting the posts ready lol

Buckle your seat belt.

I hate to be doom and gloom about it but like...does anyone actually believe there's going to be a seismic shift in combat in 7.2 as Yoshi P claims? Something truly different that will stick after the first time? They'll probably add in one tricky mechanic and tell you encounter design is now forever changed.

And frankly I'm being generous. I bet 7.0 plays just like 6.0 outside the job changes.