Quote Originally Posted by SavishSalacious View Post
One of the things that confuses me is why are healers DPS'ing?

I thought your role was to keep me alive, not fight along side me. Aside from that:

Why do Palidins have heal skills? You are a tank, your role is to keep the big bad off me and on you, while I nuke it. and the healers job is to keep you, the tank, and me the dps alive. Not help us.

I dunno, maybe they want this game to evolve into GW2 with the zergs.....oh god the ptsd from the zergs.
If that's your thought, then you might be in the wrong MMORPG. That is the curse and myth of the triad mentality. But FFXIV has never had it be as regimented as you state.

Healers will heal you AND fight alongside you. It's been like that in the FF franchise since forever, your healer characters have always fought alongside the damage focused ones.

Tanks will take damage, draw the damage away from you and fight alongside you. Some tanks and some DPS will contribute to healing. Healers and DPS can also contribute to damage reduction. It has been this way since the beginning.

Heck, I try to think how it is for other games? When I heal in WoW, I'll still contribute to DPS when I am free to. If I am playing a healer character in Overwatch, I still shoot the enemy. When I had a healer build for Roland in Borderlands, I'd still shoot enemies. Clerics in DnD heal and do damage, I play one in Baldur's Gate III.

The counter question is: what are healers supposed to do when everybody's health is topped off? Our options available are: contribute via DPS or twiddle our thumbs and leave the work to everybody else.

The mentality here is, "if I could be helping this run go more smoothly or more efficiently and have the tools to do it, then I should use them" rather than, "this is your corner, stay in it".