Quote Originally Posted by jdtuggey View Post
you're entitled to it, but relying on the evidence I seen in this thread and my own experience of the game, I'm not convinced myself.
Another thing most don't consider is that Square has a lot of data on our gameplay habits.
They probably have a very different perspective when they look at that ?
So I tend to trust them more than a player who tells me "look, these top20 dudes cleared ex2 without heals, healers useless". :P
Because you are missing the point

Sure your average pick me up group while they could do it with 8 tanks probably couldn’t do it with 4 DPS and 4 tanks without a bunch of work. But the fact that 8 tanks can do it easily and 4 tanks 4 DPS can do it easily is showing that tanks are too strong and damage is too low. Sure the average group needs a healer because they don’t have the level of coordination this group has but the video shows just how low the healing is. What’s the point of having 2 healers who can both pump out 15k HPS when the fight only needs 10k HPS between all 8 jobs. So you end up having 50* the amount of healing you actually need and it leads you to being stuck spamming 111111111111

Not all groups can do this, but all healers are feeling the lack of damage that allows this to even be possible