The trinity, party responsibility, and how to try and improve the game from within

[Inferiae]

It is not the norm. Healers job is to heal and keep people alive, since Alex Savage people have been expecting healers to DPS in every dungeon. Before AS came out it was not expected and there were no problems. If I want to DPS I would not be healing. My job is to keep everyone alive not kill. When I join a DF roulette it says Healer not DPS for my role.

You say that based on other MMOs, not based on this one. On FFXIV, this is indeed the norm, ever since Sastasha. I ran it as WHM the other day and had to use Cure only two times the entire dungeon. Stone is Level 1, Aero is level 4 and Cleric Stance is level 6.

Just because it's different from what you wanted or what you expected, doesn't mean it's not intended.

Mind you, I agree healers shouldn't be needed to DPS, but this game is currently designed this way (which I don't agree either), like it or not.


@To OP, though:

I've been thinking the same thing, how tanks should feel more like tanks and not DPS that can take tank busters, and how healers should feel more like healers and not DPS that has to turn Cleric Stance off at specific moments of the fight to complement the other healer.