FRU has been cleared without Tanks!

[HyperiusUltima]

Depends on your perspective.
I mean, a healer is always going to contribute at the very least by doing damage, so it shouldn't be a case of whether you are going to contribute or not, it is a matter of how much you need to contribute.

When it's the only contribution they're giving? This is why Healers are actually the LEAST played job. Because it's BORING to press one button over and over. I've played even AST/SCH in dungeons and when you're paired with the likes of WAR? You sit there and just DPS because the WAR has all the tools to keep themselves alive without fail. Same could be said of PLD/GNB to an extent. If your healing isn't needed, then healing is not a contributor - which is the whole point of the Role's existence.

With random groups, anything can happen, the DPS might do a dumb and die, or even the tank has a lapse of judgement. Your role as a healer then is to smooth out the run incase anything like that happens.

Yeah? That's where we're further shoved into this "babysitting" role. Where if something actually does go horribly wrong, we actually get agency. You can talk about this from Dungeons all the way to Savage: Healers are the "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass" equivalent. But if for some reason your DF runs don't have this? Then they're back to the aforementioned above.

Egi tanking was, stick Titan in one spot and just baby him with heals, both from the SMN (Sustain) and healers (remembering, the AoE heals did affect the pets at this time). They already took less damage just for being an Egi and they didn't have to worry about the tank buster deleting them just because they didn't have the stacks. It was about as easy as you could make it. You also know that, given time, it would have become the norm. The tank players who were excluded would have then been told to play DPS or Healer. As for a SMN who didn't want to, you get a second SMN who did, the first SMN would then be a DPS SMN, the second the tank SMN.

Then tell me how this equates to how Healers should just "Play a DPS or Tank"? If people make the decision to make pre-mades, then they will do so and push this, making DF Qs longer because of the "optimization". If anything it's akin to doing the path of least resistance which is a constant for this game whenever it comes to content, no matter how you shake your head at it.

Also for the record, you needed an equally skilled SMN to pull of Titan Egi tank back then because if your pet management was off? Titan would eat the dust and you'd be looking closer to a wipe - same for healers.