M4S has officially been beaten without healers in week 2

[Packetdancer]

There are no heal checks in this game, there are mit checks. Which everyone in the group is responsible for. Then it's up to the healers to press a singular ogcd to resolve the actual healing part of it. wowza

I mean, this isn't strictly true. This game actually has a recurring mechanic where everyone in the party will be reduced to 1 HP and given a Doom debuff which must be cleansed by healing to full. The only oGCD which can resolve that entirely on its own is Macrocosmos, and prior to level 90 content that mechanic does not trigger it, I assume because it's probably setting health to 1 manually rather than actually applying damage in older fights or something. (Fun fact you discover if you do Seat of Sacrifice EX unsynced to mount farm.)

Now, I'm not saying that is a difficult mechanic by any stretch of the imagination. (Or that healing in this game is remotely in a good place.)

But I am saying I've had to Vercure myself to safety as a RDM in Orbonne Monastery before because the healers couldn't make TG Cid's heal-to-full check due to seemingly thinking "I can just cast a single heal and call it good." So...

Tanks have more survivability than healers, can dish out (sufficient) healing without losing on damage AND have higher damage than healers.

Maybe it's time for Healers to be able to deal more damage than tanks to compensate for their frailty.

I'm in favor!