A summary of healer issues

[Irenia]

Granado Espada

To be fair, I'd argue your "player character" in that game was your entire kit of three units you used, giving you alot of customization. It was rather neat.

Unfortunately, I never got far not deep enough to anything considered high level, so I have no idea how things performed there.

EDIT:

The closest thing to a DPS shunning healer was Ragnarok Online's Priest and its derivatives. When I played, if you wanted to heal as a Priest, you'd choose to focus on survival, cast times, or some blend of them. The cast time focused ones often dabbled in undead slaying, but since I wanted to be the healiest of healers, I went survival.

Healing in that game was really simple, keep everyone buffed, use your utility skills when needed, heal when needed, and spam heal when things got tense.

Even then, I ended up being the most engaged when I played part time tank. Even had a quasi provoke, haha. It make me realize that I needed more than just healing. While tense moments were fun, because dying cost exp and wiping wastes so much time, no one actually wanted to be tense.

In the end, the reason I latched onto FFXIV was that healers had a damage skill actually worth a damn, heh.