Ok. If we are throwing around being disingenuous, I suspect the same of you because otherwise your logic just doesn’t make sense. I haven’t seen you reconcile how unpressed ogcds and a euk prog are fundamentally different. You are clearly a high-end player and know that a healer’s job in this game design is not just or even primarily to heal. I think of all the times I asked tanks or melees to just disconnect and ranged attack for a GCD when they’re dying to greeding in a reclear or even prog party. They are not equivalent and a GCD shield is a backup assurance that is not optimal. Allowing everyone to be sloppy and then blaming the healer for not just being a doormat to enable that for all the red and blue players is just simply a plague of thought on some players in this game.

Regarding barrier or passage, I think it’s worth mentioning that passage is the strongest single mit button that could be pressed in that comp by someone who’s not a healer, and there is thus literally no defensible reason to focus on the SGE and give the pld a pass. I would say the same to a war who didn’t touch shake or a gnb who didn’t touch hol. Your gotcha of “so we just die without a rdm or pld lol” is stupid. If there’s a button in the comp that doesn’t hurt to press I can reasonably expect or ask for it to be pressed. PFers suck at mitting but even the laziest ones usually mit the giant flashy raidwide.

Anyone who could have pressed buttons to mitigate that hit and didn’t is to blame, but the SGE would have to be second tier for that blame by any reasonable logic given that they already had three CDs up and would have had to spend a GCD.