Quote Originally Posted by UkcsAlias View Post
The real problem is healing demands in most duties. In most duties you arent being forced to heal at all. Power creep makes this worse at an excessively quick speed making duties just 2 patches older trivial. Its just very bad balance towards healers.
SE tried to solve this in Abyssos. Their method of solving lack of healing required is to make raidwides that deal more than the max HP of the party so you just die unless you mitigate it, which(to no one's surprise) made double shield healer a much better option than 1 shield + 1 regen.

I don't think the fight designers truly understand how to make a proper healing-intensive fight, which is weird, because Barbariccia is a good fight design that fits the bill of "more healing requirement" rather than Rubicante/Golbez and their mechanics which can just kill you from full without mitigation.