The idea that we need to DPS must go.

[Hezzlocks]

The idea of a pure healer cannot and will not ever exist in FF14 due to the way combat is designed and scripted. As it stands you will always be able find down periods in combat and during said downtime you should be doing something such as DPSing.

Absolutely correct, as much as it bothers me. You can't have a pure healer in this game without designing fights that stray away the general standard design FF14 uses so much.