Healer should not dps in the dungeons?

Anyone else get the vibe that this thread just turned into a "you suck if you don't dps as a healer"?

More like people don't like healers to just stand around and do nothing.

It's like a SCH putting follow on someone and letting Eos/Selene do all the healing.
Yes everyone is alive, but you can do so much more but why aren't you.

It's not that you have to but you aren't putting the effort in to increase the effeciency of the group. It's like being annoyed when tanks or dps don't use cool downs... It's available to them but not required to beat most content. I mean I don't have to use berserk when I'm a warrior but seriously why not?

Also I don't think anyone is arguing that a SCH or WHM should dps at the exclusion of required healing but so much of the content in this game is so light on healing that it feels like it was almost designed to give healers the room to dps in inconsequential content like over geared 4 mans. Not like I'd kick a healer for standing around when there's no healing to be done, but I'll view them as not contributing as much to the group as the rest of the team. But that's not really much of an issue since I'm usually the one healing and making sure there are SCH dots all over the place.

If they weren't designed to contribute dps they wouldn't have been given damage spells at all pure and simple, let alone as many as they have, they are not just simply for leveling. From a design point of view it is obvious healers were meant to have dps moments.

Funny, how the CNJ questline talks about this:

http://i.imgur.com/ZWw1pnc.jpg

I'd forgotten that moment in the CNJ quest line. It is so appropriate to this thread. Love it. ;)

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Originally Posted by myahele

Funny, how the CNJ questline talks about this:

http://i.imgur.com/ZWw1pnc.jpg

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Complete the CNJ quest line and you see she is persuaded that her healing is bad, as she drawing from herself and not from the elements. Why bad things happened to her mother.

Plus you show her in the quest line that CNJ isnt just about healing but pewpew when needed also to protect those that need it.

Tip: DPS only if you are comfortable by it. I won't require YOU to do DPS if I tank, but at least keep us all alive. More power to you if you can do both sides =)

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Originally Posted by Sapphic

Complete the CNJ quest line and you see she is persuaded that her healing is bad, as she drawing from herself and not from the elements. Why bad things happened to her mother.

Plus you show her in the quest line that CNJ isnt just about healing but pewpew when needed also to protect those that need it.

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Thanks, I was about to point out how that capture was taken out of context.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

Anyone else get the vibe that this thread just turned into a "you suck if you don't dps as a healer"?

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So do you stand there doing nothing when no one needs healing then?