PLEASE, stop teaching/telling new healers to DPS

I'm laughing my ass off at all of these comments about how they get mad or they think a healer is leeching because they're not doing something every second of every minute of a dungeon.


Let me explain this to you. There as multiple jobs in a group. dps and dd deal damage, tanks soak damage, healers heal the damage away. Without the tank and the healer you're not running much of anything, so that's not much of a leech. DD and dps are a penny a dozen in this an every other MMO in existence, if anyone could be considered a leech, it's the job with the least amount of responsibility in the group. That's DD and dps. Or maybe you like it when you die in a dungeon because you didn't have somebody there sending spells your way to patch up the damage you take.

I'm not saying a healer that dpses or doesn't is either bad or awesome, thats up to the person. Personally my dps when I run dungeons isn't that great in comparison because I'm breaking rotations to chip out heals here and there, and I also often dont use cleric stance because I'm not sacrificing potency in the off chance I need to quickly pull somone out of some shit. I also do other things like keep shields up, get rid of debuffs, pick up keys or open chests to speed things along. So in the case that I do dps it's simply because I was bored. certainly not because I felt compelled as part of my responsibility of the group to help kill things. My responsibility if to keep everyone alive, yours is to tank or deal damage.

All that being said, I never 'just stand there' I'm always doing something and yes usually it's throwing dots if it isn't healing. This game is a bit different in that it actually allows healers to do things other than perpetually cast heals, and that's kind of nice. But seriously? Calling healers leeches and mooches? You people just like to end up face down in the dirt dont you?

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Originally Posted by Raale

Just had a run a couple nights ago doing Wanderer's Palace, a tank begging me to spam holy for the Slime boss fight on the adds, and to spam holy for the final boss on the tonberry adds. Really? Asking a healer to do the job that dps people are suppose to be doing? Wow. Rather pathetic. Most people just don't realize how expensive it is to cast Holy. What happens when a healer runs out of mana just because they "had" to spam holy so dps people can be lazy and ignore the mechanics of the fight. Why is it the healer's job to kill adds so dps can focus on the boss? That's just being lazy. I would never allow my self to stand next to the slime boss and risk getting the debuffs that will cripple you, and then suddenly you're marked by the boss to run away from. My job is to cleanse these debuffs and keep people alive. Furthermore, the last boss hits the tank very hard every once in a while which requires to be topped up again to full health, any less than that you run the risk of having the tank dying. I play healer to keep people alive, not to play dps. If I wanted to dps, I'd play a dps job. So ya, stop asking healers to do the dps's job. Asking a healer to dps just so dps people can be lazy does not make them a good player or learn how to do mechanics right. Maybe the healers can start telling the Paladins to go heal themselves just because they can so healers can just be lazy and dps instead. Paladin dies? it's the tank's fault for not healing to keep them up. Same logic should apply if people ask healers to dps. Oh wait...lets ask SMN to heal too since they can. Sure, SMN heals and healers can dps. Lets make this game more retarded than their intended roles. Cleric stance is there to allow healers to solo stuff, not to help dps with their laziness and shortfalls. I'll thank you to let me do my job as everyone else do their jobs as intended.

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It's not about the DPS being lazy, it's about how single target damage is better than AoE for single targets, that true for all jobs. It's the fastest way to kill the boss, that's why they want you to do it, got nothing to do with lazyness. The problem you have is no matter how much you protest and say you don't have the MP or whatever there are plenty of WHM who spam Holy in WP like it's going out of fashion, and heal just fine. And yes, I'm talking about randoms picked up in DF, sure some can't but plenty can.

Are you kidding me? I love holy spamming the slimes in Wanderer's Palace! And the boss is a joke for healing, honestly. I dps on my whm as often as I can - in dungeons it does help speed things up.

Obviously there are times where dps just isn't an option because you are too focused on healing. But in most in-game situations I find that there is plenty of room to both heal and dps. I see someone who solely heals as basically getting an 80 on a test(again this is for things where you have the time/room to dps). You passed, good job. You heal and dps? Yay you get a 100 and I'll put a sticker on your test too! Personally I just want to do whatever I can to maximize my potential and my contribution to the group.

I DPS in CT most of the time.
I DPS in Garuda Ex ( Even with solo heal ).
I DPS in Titan Ex during Heart Phase.
I DPS in Turn 5 Phase 2 (Fast Conflagration).

Problem ? I set my Cleric Stance key at "E", so I can switch easily.

Seriously, WHM playing with half DPS role is more fun than standing still and heal :/

Playing through a dungeon I'm already familiar with as a DPS is different from as a healer. Usually when I run a dungeon for the first time as a healer, I focus just on healing. When I'm familiar with the dungeon from a healer's perspective, then I have a better idea of if/when it's okay to dps a little. Although sometimes it depends on your party's makeup as well. So you just have to get a feel for it. I definitely think it's possible but it takes time, so in that sense I agree with the OP. Let new healers learn healing first, and when they are comfortable with that, start trying to work in DPS when you can.

You MUST dps as a healer.

1. Haukke Manor, i tank as pld, newbie blm, dragoon and a lv37 scholar. SCH was dpsing all time (without CS, but whatever).
2. 2nd boss, i pop all cd and still die very fast, -??? Then i noticed SCH keeps the pet on HEEL and not healing at all (fairies have very short healing radius).
3. Dragoon died 2nd and quit the team, i left too since there was no longer a penalty.
4. Profit!!!

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Originally Posted by lxSch

1. Haukke Manor, i tank as pld, newbie blm, dragoon and a lv37 scholar. SCH was dpsing all time (without CS, but whatever).
2. 2nd boss, i pop all cd and still die very fast, -??? Then i noticed SCH keeps the pet on HEEL and not healing at all (fairies have very short healing radius).
3. Dragoon died 2nd and quit the team, i left too since there was no longer a penalty.
4. Profit!!!

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That's just a bad healer, Haukke Manor is really easy to heal with SCH, your pet can do 80% of the healing needed and if I don't DPS in Haukke Manor I'm not doing anything for the most part. Even on the Bosses it's not hard to DPS and keep the tank nice and healthy at the same time.

One thing I would say in defence of the healer you're referring to though is that I wouldn't expect SCH to have Cleric Stance in a dungeon below level 40, Protect, Swiftcast and Stoneskin are all more important than Cleric Stance, especially in the duty finder.

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Originally Posted by Artemiz

That's just a bad healer, Haukke Manor is really easy to heal with SCH, your pet can do 80% of the healing needed and if I don't DPS in Haukke Manor I'm not doing anything for the most part. Even on the Bosses it's not hard to DPS and keep the tank nice and healthy at the same time.

One thing I would say in defence of the healer you're referring to though is that I wouldn't expect SCH to have Cleric Stance in a dungeon below level 40, Protect, Swiftcast and Stoneskin are all more important than Cleric Stance, especially in the duty finder.

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Cleric, Protect, Swift, Aero, Stoneskin. The optimal order. Stoneskin is pretty pointless in dungeons. Protect is pretty pointless in dungeons below 20.

Actually Swift is also pretty pointless in early dungeons so I'd move it later to have Aero sooner. Nothing should be killing fairy.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

Cleric, Protect, Swift, Aero, Stoneskin. The optimal order. Stoneskin is pretty pointless in dungeons. Protect is pretty pointless in dungeons below 20.

Actually Swift is also pretty pointless in early dungeons so I'd move it later to have Aero sooner. Nothing should be killing fairy.

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I'm not the most confident of healers in this game but my take on it is that I take the defensive stuff first and DPS with whatever recources I have left afterwards. While leveling my priority order for cross class skills has been Swiftcast - Protect - Stoneskin - Cleric Stance - Aero. The low level stuff is easy but people are stil learning their roles, DPS pull too much hate and don't avoid battle mechanics, tanks don't have/use cooldowns as effectively and don't dodge mechanics and as the healer I'm learning too. The healer is the safety net of the group so defensive/restoration abilities come first in my opinion.

Remember this thread is about new healers, not Coil T5 seasoned vets doing low level roulette for shiggles.

I don't know much about WHM, but SCH is designed to dps and heal, thats his whole deal.

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Originally Posted by Artemiz

I'm not the most confident of healers in this game but my take on it is that I take the defensive stuff first and DPS with whatever recources I have left afterwards. While leveling my priority order for cross class skills has been Swiftcast - Protect - Stoneskin - Cleric Stance - Aero. The low level stuff is easy but people are stil learning their roles, DPS pull too much hate and don't avoid battle mechanics, tanks don't have/use cooldowns as effectively and don't dodge mechanics and as the healer I'm learning too. The healer is the safety net of the group so defensive/restoration abilities come first in my opinion.

Remember this thread is about new healers, not Coil T5 seasoned vets doing low level roulette for shiggles.

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My advice isn't just for vets. Pointless to have Swiftcast that early because nothing in the 10-30 stretch is going to kill the fairy (so no resummoning needed), and you have no other long casts. Nothing should even be killing a player until maybe Haukke (~30), which is great because combat raise isn't until the mid 20s for either healer. Stoneskin is a waste of time that low.

One could argue Cleric Stance is a waste for new healers.

Focus.

Rant, whines and your opinion that healers who don't dps aren't as good as healers who heal isn't going to make a new healer a better player.

I am surprise this topic can stay alive for so long.

What is there to argue about?

If you are a healer and you DPS to 'help' out, kudos to you. You ADD value to your original job role which is healing. But can anyone tell you that you MUST absolutely DPS? NO! More so if you do not feel comfortable to do it.

If you are a DPS and you feel like healer should 'help' you out in your department, you might wanna rethink what you have done WRONG, because up-till-date for all the content in this game, a healer can go focus in healing without worrying about DPS check and DPS that are COMPETENT can do it by themselves. If you need help, you are INCOMPETENT.

The same goes to SMN that assist healer to resurrect the fallen. Do they really need to do that? NO! But if they do, i believe healers would really appreciate it. BUT can healer insist that SMN MUST resurrect the dead? NO! It is not their bloody job to do it.

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Originally Posted by Artemiz

That's just a bad healer, Haukke Manor is really easy to heal with SCH, your pet can do 80% of the healing needed and if I don't DPS in Haukke Manor I'm not doing anything for the most part. Even on the Bosses it's not hard to DPS and keep the tank nice and healthy at the same time.

One thing I would say in defence of the healer you're referring to though is that I wouldn't expect SCH to have Cleric Stance in a dungeon below level 40, Protect, Swiftcast and Stoneskin are all more important than Cleric Stance, especially in the duty finder.

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A healer who didn't cast a single heal when first tanker and then dragoon were dying probably didn't even know she had to heal lol.
My idea behind mentioning CS is because it adds around 40% dps in i30 gear, so a healer dpsing without it is a first sign of him/her being new and inexperienced.
Another example from today: brayflox manor, i tank as pld, sch is using bane on every pull (without CS) and massively overhealing me (casting physick/adloquium if i am below 90% of hp), then he gets all adds on him and starts to spam physick on self, so i cannot take adds from him anymore. He was running low on mana at every pull of 3-4 mobs. It would be ok if he dpsed, but let the fairy to heal me (must Place her and stop overhealing). I think this basic stuff is more important to learn than doing some extra damage.

Great topic!

As a fresh healer (LVL. 36 SCH) I have been doing a lot of reading and building up my experience in order to become a better scholar and through that, a better healer.
My information below is based on being predominantly a scholar but I am building up my experience as a CNJ.

Let me know if there are any corrections or additional information. It will allow me to become a better healer!

Your role in the party is a healer. Heal first! DPS last!

Heal Priority! Tank > Healer (You) > DPS. If a tank dies, the party probably wipes! If the healer dies, the party possibly wipes. If the DPS dies...life goes on.

Know your skills! Know how much you heal for, how your Adloquium works etc. Know how long Physik, Adloquium takes to cast.

Know your pet! Know which pet to use when! If you're not sure! Then check with the Tank.

Know your pet! Know how long Embrace takes and how much it heals for! Know how much Whispering Dawn heals for per regen!

Know your Tank! Know how much damage he takes and when you need to heal in order to not over-heal and drawn enmity!

Communicate! Talk to your tank! Ask them if they need anything! Should you DPS more or less.

When to DPS! Understand that your Bio/BioII/Miasma/Stone/Aero will take the place of 1 physik/cure! Can you afford to not heal? Sometimes the lack of 1 physik/cure can start a chain-reaction that can cause a party wipe because of unforeseen damage.

Know your skills! Know the cast times of your Bio/BioII/Miasma! As a scholar you have access to some devious skills that keeps on giving. BioII and Bane. This will help your party significantly! Virus on Boss! Tank will laude you! Just know when to do it and only if your tank can afford to!

Last and not least.

Heal pre-emptively! Too many healers wait for the Tank to get pummeled before they start healing. When you know your tank and know what damage he can take, you will know when to start healing in order to heal effectively without drawing enmity.

Just stay calm! When your tank is busy and an add has his fugly sight on you, just keep calm. Get to your tank so he can draw the enmity off you. There is nothing sadder/comical than a healer running in circles, virtually screaming like a little girl, spamming heals on himself! I've been there and done that. Just stay calm!

Message me and/or reply if there are any changes to be made or if there are any other tips you want to add especially from Tanks!

• Don't start healing until tanker has enough enmity on all affected targets (if i am not mistaken 1 flash counters 2000 healed hp).
• Always side with the tanker, not dps: tanker can keep mobs from you, dps cannot (don't heal dps until tanker takes mobs from them).
• Learn to Place the pet, especially if you are dpsing - it will do half (if not all) of your healing work if stays within healing range with the tanker. i70 fairy can solo heal most of AK and all lv31 and below dungeons.
• Obey the pet - clicking off Whispering Dawn is annoying, wasting Fei Illumination is quite bad.
• Pre-cast Eye4Eye at every 4+ mob pull unless you are saving it for some very big pull.

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Originally Posted by lxSch

Always side with the tanker, not dps: tanker can keep mobs from you, dps cannot (don't heal dps until tanker takes mobs from them).

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Don't be a princess healer.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

Don't be a princess healer.

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What is a princess healer? I do not understand what you mean by this term. Also, what is wrong with what you call a "princess healer"?
Regarding what i said, lets say dps pulls some mobs and runs to the healer, tanker has no threat on those mobs so they would go after the healer. Under attack healer will have most of heals interrupted and easily die. But if tanker takes threat of those loose mobs first - they will not go after the healer and team will not wipe. If one dps dies team will not wipe, if healer dies - team will.

I just started playing this a week ago.
I wanted to build a healer as my first class of choice.
Every dungeon either I have a tank screaming at me to not focus on healing so much and focus on attacking, or I have a tank screaming at me to not attack and focus on healing.
Personally i'm a balance healer, I keep everyone over 50% when everyone is full I DPS stuff until I need to heal the tank. Either way, im yet to lose a dungeon crawl and have people die on me. Im a week in and already sick of know it all tanks who cant stop bossing people around. We all get it, you are the tank, we follow you, we help you kill, we keep you healthy. Don't be a douche about it.

In regards to a princess healer, I believe he is asking you to not be a snooty know it all princess, who happens to be a healer.

By "princess" I mean don't refuse to do your job because of your perceived "standards". Like a princess tank will hold up the run because s/he doesn't like one little thing the party is/n't doing.

You're not fragile, DPS aren't fragile. You can take a few hits before dying on trash. I've tanked whole pulls in dungeons and come out of it fine as SCH.

As already been said here, there is a way to balance it perfectly. I've not played ARR nearly as long as a lot of people on here, but I, and several people I've played with, do just that. It's about knowing at what point you should focus on heals, keeping an eye on buff timers, watching the tank's health very closely and having things set up to where you're not fumbling to cast your skills. No matter what class I play I set my skills up in an order I know I won't forget. One thing I notice about a lot of new healers or just inexperienced supports is how long they pause in between each skill. You also need to be extremely aware and knowledegable when it comes to cast time,cool down,stance and your own MP limits.

The only bad party I've been was with a healer who constantly used the excuse, "I can't keep up with heals." One thing SE got right is the MP ratio to skill usage. If you time your skills, do not over heal and use your time wisely you will be more than an effective support.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

By "princess" I mean don't refuse to do your job because of your perceived "standards". Like a princess tank will hold up the run because s/he doesn't like one little thing the party is/n't doing.

You're not fragile, DPS aren't fragile. You can take a few hits before dying on trash. I've tanked whole pulls in dungeons and come out of it fine as SCH.

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I haven't yet seen tankers holding the run due a meaningless reason, so i do not really understand what you mean by the princess tank.
SCH have instant heal every 60s and free heal from the pet, but those are the only 2 ways you can keep healing while under attack. Lets say tanker does not take the extra adds from you (those you took from dps) soon enough, after aetherflow is out you will have no way to heal anyone. I cannot consider this situation to be a good healing tactic advice and think that calling people 'princess' for avoiding a very risky situation is offensive.
Just to be equal lets call people who do so "stunt" healers. I would surely prefer a "princess" healer over the "stunt" healer because it's much safer this way, but of course it's a matter of preference and you cannot say one if definitely better than the other.

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Originally Posted by lxSch

Just to be equal lets call people who do so "stunt" healers. I would surely prefer a "princess" healer over the "stunt" healer because it's much safer this way, but of course it's a matter of preference and you cannot say one if definitely better than the other.

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Sometimes "stunt" is safer. For instance in wp it's safer to gather 2 grps before last boss, go cleric stance, spam holy and top tank with benediction once his hp is low enough than risk a tonberry stalker's visit.

As Scholar, I don't carry the Cleric Stance skill into dungeons below 40. I have it slotted 4th. If I happen to df with actual LOW LEVEL people in the low level dungeons, they appreciate me having Protect, Swiftcast and Stoneskin far more. I saved a level 28 Marauder's life in Haukke Manor by quickly combining Adlo and Stoneskin and was thanked for it. And I frankly care far more for that then some holier-than-tho opinion from a high level I might happen to meet in there. I'll throw in some dps in those dungeons even without CS because if I have the time some damage is better than no damage. I've had situations in dungeons that I do have Cleric Stance for that I will stop using it, because I will notice that the tank is getting below 50% on mob pulls too fast. Healing is priority. If you think less of me for those decisions, you're an idiot and I don't care about your opinion.

As for the healing the dps when they pull hate, I will usually heal them. I like keeping the entire party alive if possible, and if it does cause a wipe, they are more likely to change behavior, rather than letting them die by themselves, then they blame healer for not healing them. And I've had situations wherein once I start getting hit, blm for instance, will suddenly "remember" that they can use Sleep. Or sometimes I just get the heals off, including on myself. Getting hit doesn't make casting automatically impossible, you know.

I think the mentioned healer need to know how to optimize mana usage and in some cases it is not worth to DPS as a healer,
rather than just "stop teaching/telling new healers to DPS" as I have seen some healers OOO unexpectedly by improper healing but not by dpsing ^^;

How about we don't tell each other how to play our roles. If a Healer isn't letting anyone die, cool. I get increasingly irritated when I am rudely TOLD (not asked) to get on Cleric Stance on low level dungeons and throw Bio and spam Ruin... I don't even have it slotted because Protect and Stoneskin are priority. Besides, the damage is so minuscule I have to wonder if the DPS/Tank shouting for a Heal-Hero are just trying to make-up.

If you want a certain role to play a certain way, play it yourself or team-up with someone you know will play your way. And as OP stated... Stop telling Healers to DPS and putting that pressure on new ones, making them believe it's a part of their role. Healing is the priority, everything else is a bonus.

Keep everyone's health as full as possible, not just 50%. That's how people die too.

I won't tell any new healers to dps, but if I meet a healer in ,say, AK who doesn't dps I'll admit I get slightly annoyed.
I'm not even asking you to go into cleric stance, I'd be happy with just a few Aero's. But seeing someone stand there doing nothing at all is just depressing.

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Originally Posted by Jitenshazuki

Sometimes "stunt" is safer. For instance in wp it's safer to gather 2 grps before last boss, go cleric stance, spam holy and top tank with benediction once his hp is low enough than risk a tonberry stalker's visit.

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You don't have to speed run to avoid the stalker, people with exp can slow run WP safely and completely avoid it. Making pulls is tanker job, not DPS/Healer, and using Holy is not a stunt - it stuns adds and works as an extra mitigation cooldown for large pulls (4s+2s+1s+interrupt) and you do not need to enter CS for it (same as Shadow Flare for SCH).

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Originally Posted by lxSch

Making pulls is tanker job, not DPS/Healer, and using Holy is not a stunt - it stuns adds and works as an extra mitigation cooldown for large pulls (4s+2s+1s+interrupt) and you do not need to enter CS for it (same as Shadow Flare for SCH).

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You do need to enter CS if you want to help undergeared dps and that's the main point of this. "Stunt" here comes from using bene from CS. And I don't know where have you read that I'm suggesting pulling by anyone except the tank.

Examples when you often have to DPS with holy include: plumes on Garuda EX, slime boss in WP (to dispatch adds), last morbol boss in Aurum Vale (to kill seeds) etc. Sometimes you do need to dps to make things easy... but apart from that I see little merit in a dpsing healer. Even your example with stunning... it's nice but it doesn't really worth the mp if you disregard the dps factor.

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Originally Posted by Jitenshazuki

You do need to enter CS if you want to help undergeared dps and that's the main point of this. "Stunt" here comes from using bene from CS. And I don't know where have you read that I'm suggesting pulling by anyone except the tank.

Examples when you often have to DPS with holy include: plumes on Garuda EX, slime boss in WP (to dispatch adds), last morbol boss in Aurum Vale (to kill seeds) etc. Sometimes you do need to dps to make things easy... but apart from that I see little merit in a dpsing healer. Even your example with stunning... it's nice but it doesn't really worth the mp if you disregard the dps factor.

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I think i defined the "stunt" clearly before, i do not know why you keep referring to me with this term but using own definition. Since you quoted me talking about the healer/dps making the pull - i thought you meant this, but we both agree it's tanker's job to pull (not dps or healer).
Since you are a lv50 - it is weird to hear about dpsing in endgame without the CS (just try to do tribe dailies on WHM without the CS). Again it's weird to hear about the MP issue - it qualifies very fresh healers. I have issues with unpredicted spiky damage, but never MP.
P.S.: so tired of argue-happy people - i just state my opinion/experience for people who may find it useful, i do not understand why people who don't agree with me bother replying. If something i said was not useful for you - just ignore it: everyone have a personal opinion and you cannot change that.

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Objectively speaking there are cases when a dpsing healer makes things safer and I just wanted to point out that for you and for other healers reading this thread. I definitely agree with your safety-first stance.

It's really annoying when WHMs don't know when they are expected to holy. Also, while I stopped playing with WHM at ilvl80 and only cleared T4 and Garuda EX with the class something tells me (maybe your DL-wearing avatar) that I might have a bit more experience than you which I wanted to share and which you can ignore if it's not useful to you, but there're other readers which hopefully will dps with when needed and won't dps when it's not needed. And won't be afraid of grabbing aggro too much.

I don't get why this argument is still going on.

A healer who DPS' during an instance =/= do not know or understand their role
A healer who doesn't DPS during an instance =/= they are a bad healer, they are a perfectly capable healer who doesn't go up and beyond their role in an instance

In the same token:

A healer who DPS in an instance can be a HORRENDOUS healer because they have tunnel vision about their DPS and forget to, you know, heal. These are incredibly bad healer, but you cannot generalize all healers that DPS in an instance in this category. That's factually false. Some of us know how to balance the two properly and play both effectively.

A healer who doesn't DPS in an instance isn't a horrendous healer either. They are doing the role given to them and doing it effectively and efficiently. Can they give added value to the party by DPSing? Sure, of course, but this is their designated role in a standard DF setup and should be their first priority. Anything BEYOND that is supposed to be beyond their scope.

The key thing about a healer is to have the situational awareness and adaptability to determine what is the best course of action for them. Make decisions based on the composition you get, whether it be a static, shout PUG, or DF PUG, etc.

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Originally Posted by Ghishlain

A healer who doesn't DPS in an instance isn't a horrendous healer either.

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Not when your party lacks aoe dps and you need to kill plumes or seeds or whatever fast.

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Originally Posted by Ghishlain

The key thing about a healer is to have the situational awareness and adaptability to determine what is the best course of action for them. Make decisions based on the composition you get, whether it be a static, shout PUG, or DF PUG, etc.

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This.

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Originally Posted by Jitenshazuki

Not when your party lacks aoe dps and you need to kill plumes or seeds or whatever fast.

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Every DPS class has some form of AOE damage (some better than others, but unless you have two/four monk...) and I don't know if you realize but Holy costs a ridiculous amount of MP. Without a Bard to help out, WHMs can't just run around spamming Holy at the drop of a hat. Put the responsibility where it belongs, with the DPS, instead of trying to put it elsewhere.

I will never understand this forum mentality that continually refuses to acknowledge the importance and responsibility of DPS roles but then comes around insisting that healers should be DPSing to make everyone's life easier, thereby validating the importance of good DPS...

I don't main a healer but have a 50 whm at ilvl73 and in even the new HM's I have absolutely no issues healing to the point if I don't help dps I get bored.

This can be dependent on the skill of the group, of course but on average this is the case.

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Originally Posted by Jitenshazuki

Not when your party lacks aoe dps and you need to kill plumes or seeds or whatever fast.

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Fights are tuned to be able to be cleared at XX ilvl. If your DPS are at that ilvl, they should be able overcome all mechanics, including add spawns, in the time frame given. Though some fights are tuned better than others, this should be a general case. If your DPS cannot handle these hurdles without the additional DPS from a WHM, then the fault is squarely on your DPS, not on the healer.

Does this mean a WHM spamming Holy in AoE situations isn't beneficial? No, because spamming Holy allows your DPS to get back onto the boss quicker and unload their more potent single target abilities sooner. However, this is value added by your healer, gravy to the gravy train that is the healer package.