Honestly I like the state of raids right now. And if you want to split hairs, DPS *can* help with the incoming damage. Personal Defensives? Tactician? Magic Barrier? Dismantle? Feint? Addle? Addle anyone? Also seriously, I invite you to try doing these dances as Black Mage. It is not easy.

But no Normal Raids are at the point where one fuckup will probably kill you, and two definitely will. It's a ton of pressure on healers, especially during the first few weeks sure, but this is the dictionary definition of Midcore content: you don't need to be parsing orange or any nonsense like that, but you can't sleepwalk through the fight or you're going to die. Repeatedly.

That said I tried healing M4 blind on the first week. Woof. I respect 99% of healers way more doing this now.

Edit: Now a DPS check on like...an add or something that wipes the raid if people don't burst it down could be interesting. Something where people have to save CDs or resources and burst something down. Kind of the DPS equivalent of a big raidwide aoe that serves as a heal check. That I'm here for.