Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
Oh are we pretending that healers who deal damage because it's the thing that skilled healers do and is intrinsic to their skill ceiling and healers that deal damage and forget to heal because they're terrible at healing are the same people again?

Never change, FFXIV community. HeALeRs shOULd hEaL onLy, yet again, every time, from people who don't play healers and aren't interested in their gameplay loop. Or from people who *do* play healers and aren't particularly skilled at them, so they like to project their lack of skill onto people who are actually good at healing, because someone maximizing their throughput and occasionally slipping up is totally worse at the game than Sylphie Curespammer. :eyeroll:
As someone who just posted above you that I at times (rarely) forget to heal - it's not because of a lack of skill. It's just because after glare-botting for 20 minutes I'm so disinterested in the encounter design and what I'm doing as a healer I get zoned out. Usually a benediction when this happens is fine.

Healing in XIV is unfortunately a shadow of how fun it could be.