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'm glad your someone who at least attempts to understand why healers do things even if your mentality on what they (and tanks for that matter)should be doing is outdated for FFXIV.

We dps because we would be bored otherwise, we dps because we want to contribute as much as possible just like tanks and dps players do, we dps because the game allows and even encourages us to, we dps because we are designed to.

Next duty you go into at a boss just stand there at the beginning until the 1st unavoidable raidwide and ask yourself would you want that amount of nothing time on your tank or dps jobs, no self respecting healer that wants to improve themselves would just accept standing still for so long if at all.

Paladins have always had heal skills in Final Fantasy so them having them in FFXIV is pretty much tradition just like White Mages have had Holy, a damage spell.

The mentality of stick to your lane has caused the current issues with healer design, the devs have even got it in their skulls this toxic mentality.

A bad healer in FFXIV only heals
A bad healer in FFXIV only dpses
A good healer balances both dps and heals
A great healer uses as little healing as possible to give out as much dps as possible while never letting anyone die.