Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
It's only needed to cheese the raid before everyone has geared up, they are not designed for the healer to be required to DPS. The developers are on record about this.
People have done maths and shown that you'd need a team of high-parsing (eg 90+) players, all with the BIS for the tier (including the weapon, which requires killing the boss in the first place), to beat the 4th fights on some raid tiers without healers dealing any damage. It's mathematically impossible to clear an ultimate without healers contributing damage.

The idea that we're 'cheesing' fights by having healers deal damage is laughable. If you want to stick to the 'healers should only heal' mantra that's been dead and buried for years, you're more than welcome to. In content that doesn't demand healers deal damage, such as EX roulettes or Maps or whatever, you can do whatever floats your boat. The moment you set foot in content that has a Stone Sky Sea challenge attached (which requires that you, a healer, do damage to beat), then the expectation is that you deal damage to help beat the content.

As for 'the devs said so', yes, like 7 years ago. Times change. Additionally, they've said a lot of dumb stuff in interviews that can be easily disproven (eg, that time Yoshi-P said SCHs were forcing WHMs to do all the healing, charts from the time showed the two were equal. If it were today, because mit now counts as HPS, SCH would be miles ahead.)