M4S has officially been beaten without healers in week 2

[Silver-Strider]

I guess at this point -

1. To play with "normal" players that get hit often and need healing;
2. To play with all the players that don't want to run 1 Warrior, 3 Paladins, and 4 DPS that all heal. Players that want to play GNB, DRK, DRG, NIN, SAM, VPR, BLM, MCH, BRD.

While this video is absurd and indicative of terrible job balancing - mostly on behalf of WAR and PLD, it by no means healers have no role in the entire game.

No but much like a leaky pipe, it's better to deal with the issue now before it gets where the damage is irreparable. I mean, how long before they end up buffing those jobs to include more self healing? MNK didn't have Earth's Reply before DT but that was retroactively given to the job to be accessible by level 64, so now it has it available for every single Ultimate fight in the game. What's stopping SE from just throwing on Regens, Damage shields and whatever else they can in an attempt to "buff" those jobs? What's stopping Nature's Minne from getting an AoE heal effect attached to it to make BRD more attractive to play, especially since they did exactly that before, changing it from a ST heal buff to an AoE heal buff; throwing a heal on top of that just seems like the nature next step in its progression. People have been making a plethora of suggestions for DRK, including adding heals to its toolkits, be it on TBN, Dark Mind, etc. that would all be reasonable in a vacuum but on the whole are detrimental to healer gameplay. It's only a matter of time before we get a Healing Flamethrower on MCH