Tips for new (and some not-so-new) healers

[Shadaki]

I'm currently a 44WHM and I must say thanks for the advice! I have to agree with your point on #3. I try my best to stance dance in dungeons and dish out DPS as well. My main is PLD, so when I see another PLD not using Sword Oath when he isn't tanking it kinda hurts my soul as well, so I personally can't just sit there and do nothing if I'm not healing. Going off of that though, how do you feel about DPSing in 8 man raids and trials compared to 4 man runs?

[Raeanya]

I'm currently a 44WHM and I must say thanks for the advice! I have to agree with your point on #3. I try my best to stance dance in dungeons and dish out DPS as well. My main is PLD, so when I see another PLD not using Sword Oath when he isn't tanking it kinda hurts my soul as well, so I personally can't just sit there and do nothing if I'm not healing. Going off of that though, how do you feel about DPSing in 8 man raids and trials compared to 4 man runs?

I've found that in early 8-mans (CM, Prae, maybe even Ifrit HM), if the other healer is a higher iLvl, I can run the entire instance in Cleric doing strictly DPS, only dropping out of the stance on rare occasions to help when it hits the fan. Vice versa if I out iLvl the other healer. I'm sure that at some point that changes with the more difficult dungeons, but from my experience, the 8-mans that I have run can be solo healed.