Quote Originally Posted by Jyoeru View Post
Do it if you can. You're not better or worse for doing so or not. If your party needs your DD to clear, get a new party.
If they need you to clear the encounter, you're right; the DPS are probably undergeared or dead too often to make a difference. You are however helping your DPS out by doing DPS as a healer, which is a good thing; which makes you better than those that don't. If you're slacking as a healer in order to DPS, then you're doing it wrong, but if you're able to do both at the same time; great!

Garuda Extreme comes to mind often when I talk about this. Even post nerf, no other DPS comes close to matching up with Holy AoE DPS; and it takes out those plumes in no time, so that they can concentrate on the Satin Plume. Do you need to use Holy? Of course not. Does it help the group? Yes.