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1) Group:
I only saw a short part of the clip and didnt had big attention to the group. I have the opinion, that i saw 3 paladin and multiple summoner/red mages. But it is possible that i was wrong.
But, it didnt change the point, that they needed substitute for the healer. Healers would probally maked it easier. And, is it even knowed, what geard they have? Shouldnt it become much easier, if they had max lvl items and materia in there?
And what research? I dont watch, what other are doing. I see it the whole time in normal dungeons and the normal raids, that healer are needed. Player take all the time dmg from enemy. Tanks need the healer to make the big pulls in dungeon (i dont even are confident in doing big pulls as a tank, even, when i have a high item lvl and it is a early dungeon, and see it from time to time, how tanks simply pulled to much).

2) More dmg.
What you say are the avoidable dmg. Like aoe or the bots from Nier Raid, that the tank has to take. I know, that they are doing big dmg or instant deat allready.
I speaked from the unavoidable attacks. Like roars, waves (as aoe) or player targeted attacks (without sharing option). Like the spider net from the Pandaemonium raid.
Because, that are the only attacks, where the dev could increase the dmg (because, the avoidable are allready making nearly or mostly instant kills).

And, that would suck for classes with lower defense, because, they are allready hurted badly by the big aoe attacks. Some of them can even only survive, if they have 100% hp or barriers activ (what is not allways the case). By pandae 02 was it even impossible for me as Black mage to survive the unavoidable aoe attack, if i wasnt at 100% hp or was healed at the same time from the healer. And that even with the BLM barrier skill. Because, the boss simply used multiple roars in a short time, where the first roar was allready enough to break the barrier. I was mostly forced to play as a monk (my main meele at that time) by him. Until the black mage had the max item lvl of that time (and even than hurted it big).

The healer would have to do more healing, if the bosses simply make more dmg. Yes. But, at the cost that other classes (mostly Caster, i dont even know, how good whm would survive that) would "cry" at the same time.