Why You Love DPSing As A Healer

I'll start ~w~, I got really into it once I realized how intense the Umbrite farm was, and I wanted to make me dungeon runs/farms go a lot faster, so I started DPSing to boost clear times. That and now that I'm really used to DPSing, I feel like I've gotten better at reacting to things going on at all times, needing to make calls as to how much damage is acceptable from player to player, planning ahead to fit in DPS between big mechanics, and learning that a lot of my skills are good for more than just fixing mistakes (I only used Lightspeed and Synastry during emergencies), makes those occasions where I'm in a learning party much more bearable on my end, because I know exactly what I can do when I'm a pure healer, and the greater personal understanding of my skills means I'm helping to the best of my ability.

I think that pretty much sums it up.

That I love DPSing as a healer because it makes me better at healing.

Because DPS skills are a part of my toolkit, so I use them to be as effective as I can be.

Because I have it burned into my head that if I don't. I'll be labeled as bad and lazy healer.

I love optimizing as a player and optimizing DPS into my heal kit is fun~

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Originally Posted by Seoulstar

Because I have it burned into my head that if I don't. I'll be labeled as bad and lazy healer.

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Yeah... have to say for me it's because it's part of the meta, not from actual enjoyment. If I really loved DPSing there's no shortage of jobs to play dedicated to that...

Holy and Gravity can both be pretty satisfying to use, though.

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Originally Posted by IttyBitty

Because DPS skills are a part of my toolkit, so I use them to be as effective as I can be.

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Pretty much this.
If it's given to me I'll use it. No reason not to.

As for me it makes dungeon runs go faster and it gives me something to do when I don't need to heal I can dish out atleast 4-5 Stonega's before I need to throw a Cura on a tank.

Dpsing is enjoyable to me when I play the game. It gives me more to do, and makes things go by pretty fast. Not to mention, I love seeing a group of enemies' health tank after using assize :)

Because I listened to E-Sumi-Yan and didn't want to be like Sylphie and her Mother.

For me it's my love for supporting my party, doing what I can to support the party synergy and help everyone play more effectively. In dungeons, I love being the person who can make the runs go so much smoother, using my buffs on party members and debuffs on monsters, keeping everyone safe with heals while also making a big contribution to group DPS, being able to say "let me handle these mechanics/adds so the rest of you can focus on DPS"... It's simply that it makes healer such a useful and powerful addition to the team, playing the job fully makes the run so much smoother, not to mention the healer DPS lessens the amount of damage taken by everyone and increases everyone else's DPS capacity (since the fights are shorter).

And for endgame content, I guess I love breaking my own records, trying to optimise my play more and more in a certain fight, and aiming for a higher ranking at FFlogs.