Healing and mitigation balance issues

[Sebazy]

...sorry. I'm just sick and tired of people seeing one example of a thing from EXTREMELY talented and dedicated people and suddenly deciding it's a game-wide problem when no one else is doing it and the amount of players that even CAN do it is ridiculously small, and most of THEM aren't bothering to try because it's just not worth the trouble. Once one team has done it and proved it's possible, there's literally no incentive for anyone else to try because it's just stupidly inefficient.

There are only two reasons why everyone hasn't already moved to 2/1/5 compositions after prog:

1. Standard comp is default on FFLogs
2. Some mechanics target healers (like light party stacks), and having only 1 healer makes the mechanic more random/harder.

To further clarify this point.

This used to be a really common occurrence and IMHO logs hiding non standard comps from the main rankings did more to limit the frequency of 1 healer or 1 tank runs than almost anything SE have managed to do over the years.

The standard comp switch happened during the creator tier if I remember correctly, and it was in response to it almost becoming the norm to drop a healer for easier turns like A9S if you wanted any shot at the rankings. You can confirm this yourself by comparing the number of non standard comp runs in 3.4 vs 3.5.