Funny to hear a keeper say that since keepers are what make fixers irrelevant in the new Xan instance Team fear removal trumps individual fear removal every day. Not to mention I won't be at all surprised to see the fixer's fear resistance go away when they "fix" the new 12man instance, making our ability to remove others' fears irrelevant.
It took me 2 weeks to get Mitaar done on my fixer. Why? No one needs a fixer in there at all. I'm sure I could have connived friends into taking me through it but I have this thing against "pity raids". And there is absolutely -zero- incentive to team a fixer in the new Xan instance. No incentive for a fixer in Vortexx either, heck, we made things worse in there if we had runspeed aura up.
Sure, we occasionally get teams if we've pimped out for damage, but really that's it. No one needs NCU to raid and even a Keeper outheals us for the team quite easily. And in most of the new instances we can't evade tank like we used to because of the simply massive AR on these bosses combined with insane nukes.
I'm not saying that Keepers don't have a hard time ... just saying it is all relative ... you're actually needed more in there than some. Eng and Fixer probably got it the worst for "being needed" in -all- current content. The last raid that seemed to want a fixer was DB1, for a few seconds at the very beginning, and that was iffy if you had an advy.
I've got a doc, but I don't feel like being -forced- to play it every time I want to do a raid. Especially when that is -all- that people want docs for. And only for a few specific ones. I know plenty of people who don't team docs for Mitaar either. It's all or nothing it seems.
AO professions and raids are simply way too polarized. Personally I think the problem is both tanks and docs ended up way OP for a very long time (since SL) and the AO devs feel the need to make content that challenges those capabilities and that pretty much locks the raid roles. When 1 profession can literally get 4 times the HP of almost any other and another profession can heal -more- than 4 times as much as the next highest healing profession there just isn't a good way to balance things.