Or is it necessary for there to be one traditional healer and one shield healer to not be sub optimal. And by necessary, I mean will most groups in party finder require it? I’m new to raiding with ff14, so I am unsure about how tight the healing requirements will be.

I feel like I remember Yoshi-P saying the high end content was designed around having one of each. However, don’t Sage and Scholar just share their gcd shield (ocd shields aren’t over written).