Quote Originally Posted by Zheri View Post
I've healed the first 3 as a Thaumaturge cross-classing Cure as well. That doesn't mean that THM is a healer; it means that those dungeons are an introduction to party play and as such are very easy. It's a strange game design that you need to spend so much time as a DPS in order to play a healer, but that does not make Arcanist into a healer, even if you dump all your points into Mind.
Yes, but for a Thaumaturge to heal you need cross-class abilities, whereas Arcanists get a direct heal with the same potency as the conjurer's direct heal spell. And for the first three dungeons nothing else is required. There are few enough healers queued up as it is. There are few enough healers who queue up as it is. They've forced the ones who decided to be a scholar to have to queue as a dps. It's far easier to just level conjurer up to 30 as well than to deal with the hassle, but it shouldn't be necessary.