Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
. . FFXIV is very lenient and that's why the DPS meta is so rampant here. If we'd nerf all heals by 50% tomorrow and put tank armor on the level of DPS armor while making mitigation part of the active rotation, people might well stop asking healers and tanks to DPS in but a day, as most would likely be happy if they'd get but a functional tank/healer in the first place. As is, functioning as tank/healer is so easy, it's a given. That's not necessarily the case in other games within the genre.

In that, it probably is a situational problem - the situation being FFXIV.
Agreed 1000%. I want to main WHM in SB for aesthetic reasons (and a general proclivity towards healing in other MMOs), but nothing is more boring than healing in content where healing isn't needed much.

The fact that this entire game is tuned to barely require healing or tanking means that DPS is the only sane option.