While I want more tools in the useful side of my kit? I disagree that DPS should be something SE bothers with on a Healer with the exception of Sage because Sage is billed and promoted as a DPS based healer even though SE has done a really poor job of making that work. Too much focus on tuning to Savage level raiding instead of doing the tuning in general party finder content is, to me, the issue. In Savage levels you have the cream of the crop players, which does NOT represent the majority of players that play the game. In Duty finder groups, tanks often don't use their mitigations, or, spam them and go for stretches without any available, they pull bigger than intended (and intent is shown in the Duty help when you're running the NPCs, you try a double pull in there and you're wiping, period) so clearly the content was never meant to be run that way. So...by design they don't expect healers to be facing things like tanks that over pull and under mitigate if they mitigate at all and while Allisaie in the duty help will stand in fire and take damage sometimes, the NPC DPS are far more likely to do mechanics than real players will. The amount of damage being taken by tanks in duty finder so grossly exceeds what a Sage's DPS generated throughput is it's laughable and not even worth bothering with in a duty finder general que. I see Sage healers try to use their DPS to keep tanks up...I've never, not since sage came out, seen it work among normal players in the general duty finder. Maybe in Savage? But in normal content where MOST of the players are? No. So Sage really doesn't deliver on the dps based healing...at all. That works like band aids, not heals. I would rather see more utility in crowd control, more stun abilities to break up the output of damage, more interesting approaches to delivery of both healing and mitigation with a Tank and DPS having LESS of those things available to them and thus MORE dependent on their healers who SHOULD be providing those things if the game designers were valuing the role for what it's supposed to be. No healer should ever have their DPS needed in any encounter, in my opinion, in groups a healers DPS should be nerfed to discourage groups from trying to force that on a role that it was not meant for. Leave it alone for solo content, but group up? 20% drop in DPS so no healer ever sees their class overlooked because another healing class does more damage (Again, except for the Sage since they want their DPS to contribute to their healing.) But over all? I thing the Devs really need to get and KEEP some people who run healers as their mains in their team, because current content should NEVER be something any group should be able to clear without a Healer. If it happens...the Devs are failing to do a good job with the roles place among the other classes.