Arcanists, low level dungeons, and the duty finder help.

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You will fill the DPS role, even if you wanted to heal. As far as healing goes, where you allocate stats is a very minor thing. Most of your stats will come from gear, until 50 all major mage gear has both int and mnd.

Cheers, this is good to hear. I was worried I'd be lumped in with healers.