Are healers lazy or do some really live by "I only heal"?

[Cynfael]

More different than you think about it

The point of the conjurer questline is to get in touch with the elements of the nature and learn to use this power for your spells.

Sylphies issue was: She never got in touch with the nature and their elements. She never learned to use this power. So she drained her own life power for casting her spells, which would kill her, like it happened to her mother before. That was Sylphies issue. Nothing else.

Now let's try segregating the gameplay from the lore a little. I thought this was too obvious for bullet points, but here we go...

- Sylphie wanted to do things her way despite the fact that her playstyle was suboptimal.

- Her trainers kept trying to help her understand that drawing on elemental powers (which necessarily include spells such as the Stone series) was vital to being well-rounded and fully functional.

- She unambiguously complains that all she wants to do is heal, and none of those "other" things.

- The CNJ quest lines drop some huge anvils about the role being bigger than just heal spamming.

Not that different.