The "To DPS" vs "Not DPS" Debate

[AichiSuu]

DPS only when you can keep up with healing. If there is very little damage going out on your raid and you're just sitting there twiddling your thumbs, you should DPS. There should never be a point where a healer is doing nothing.

[Shmunkster]

DPS only when you can keep up with healing. If there is very little damage going out on your raid and you're just sitting there twiddling your thumbs, you should DPS. There should never be a point where a healer is doing nothing.

Sometimes I have an orange/red icon on the baddie....so I stop. I stop everything. Healing and DPSing.
Suppose I am "managing aggro" so not really "doing nothing", but it might look like I am twiddling my thumbs.....I'm not. I'm watching, very carefully, for the momment I can start again.

OK, I should manage the aggo better, you will say....and I do 99% of the time...but sometimes I get a random tank where maybe we haven't "got" each other yet (first few pulls) and there's a bit of aggro to manage. It happens. I assure you all, if you see me standing there like a listless kitty, I am 99% likely to be aggro managing, not dossing.

Oh, or I might be stroking my cat, or opening my chocolate bar

[AldoVonAlexandros]

Oh, or I might be stroking my cat, or opening my chocolate bar

lol, that happens to me, sometimes im having dinner and healing a trial or something, so i dont dps, the tank can heal himself or the blm can heal too or the smn, so its not an obligation to dps ok, understand that, i always dps because i like it, not for obligation, im not a dpser im a healer