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

[Felis]

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.

It is a norm forced by the community, not by the devs.

Yoshida said in an interview, that during difficulty balancing no damage is expected by the healer (not even auto-attack damage), and that a healer only have to do damage if either the DPS classes are undergeared or just play bad.
https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/12...tions-requests

So, a healer doing damage should be a red alarm sign for the DPS classes.

maybe the devs should build in a tome reward penalty for DPS classes if the healer did more damage than they.