I am sure many of you have been asked this familiar question by your co-healer a in raid setting: "Do you want to solo heal so I can DPS?" Of course, when it is simply the matter of solo-healing one or two phases, it's not so bad. However, when they are asking you to solo heal the whole fight, then it gets to be a nail-biter at times. I am sure that many healers would not mind solo-healing in 8-mans; many probably already do (sometimes unintentionally). In fact, I've met several healers with the whole "I'm your rock" mentality that would prefer to be THE healer.

This puts into question the whole two-healer dynamic; it's probably too late to change it as all the fights kind of revolve around it. However, here are my ideas:

• Nerf Cleric Stance
• Introduce a true DPS healer

The DPS healer will have roughly 80 to 85 percent of a true DPS's output and will not scale as well with gear; the DPS healer will have weak heals that can solo heal 4-man content but not 8-mans. In addition, the DPS healer will have abilities that will augment the primary healer's healing output to allow him/her to more easily solo-heal (i.e. an ability that increases the other healer's healing by 20-30%).

This type of job would probably be my dream co-healer and a job that I wouldn't mind playing from time to time.