I really don't understand

[Neon231]

I'm not saying its impossible, but it is very unlikely. Actually won a Seal rock today without a healer. It just feels like its kinda required or GG, but I guess that is just me.

[Zojha]

It just feels like its kinda required or GG, but I guess that is just me.

That largely depends on whether the enemy has healers, whether you need to actually engage the enemy in PvP, whether the healers are bots/potatoes etc. Obviously, you don't need a healer if they have none either and if they're bad/bots, it's as if they had none.

Fact is that a healer has a completely disproportionate impact on any given PvP fight compared to any other job or role. That's because their throughput is a multitude of that of any other player (bar other healers). That in turn means you will innately be at a considerable disadvantage without a healer ceteris paribus.
In other words, unless you significantly outskill your enemy, it is, in fact, GG, because they have a large numerical advantage over you.

That's why Feast enforces a fixed role comp. They don't care to enforce it for casual PvP content like frontlines in order to speed up queues, but they are full well aware that there are game-breaking imbalances that need to be equalized among the teams, hence the forced role comp in the "serious" mode. And those imbalances exist for one simple reason: Popularity. Literally from a Yoshida interview:"nobody will want to play as a healer, if they aren’t that strong."

Yes, that's his retort on the power of healers. That's what he's concerned about. Balance isn't even an afterthought. Love it, hate it, it's what it is. The bots don't mind at least.

[Astrophysx]

You can not win a game without a healer, so why make no requirements to have at least one healer? There are times where if I get into a party with no healer, I don't bother fighting cause I know I'm going to lose without a healer. Unless it is a 1v1 situation.

Btw, bring back 3.0 pvp, this new system is dumb.

Why not learn and play healer? Since healers have a high influence in any PvP mode, you'll benefit greatly from playing the role.