Does anyone else find healers DPS impact on group ironic?

[Gardes]

Not that DPS doesn't make a difference, but it seems like if you really want to put a huge difference pace you should play a healer who actually knows how to DPS.

Sometimes they don't. Tons of DPS in this game are trash. Not just in terms of skill but also brains. How many weeks has it been since the weapon material for i120>130 got added to the weekly? How often do I see dps wearing poet gear that costs more than 1300 total and still uses weapons like zenith, atma, animus in instances that doesn't provide progress towards that weapon? Way too damn many. Hell you don't even need to use novus through out the ex dungeon, just the last boss fight.

[SDaemon]

Sometimes they don't. Tons of DPS in this game are trash. Not just in terms of skill but also brains. How many weeks has it been since the weapon material for i120>130 got added to the weekly? How often do I see dps wearing poet gear that costs more than 1300 total and still uses weapons like zenith, atma, animus in instances that doesn't provide progress towards that weapon? Way too damn many. Hell you don't even need to use novus through out the ex dungeon, just the last boss fight.

Not that unbelievable. I only have the Law of Levin (Ramuh wpn) on my SCH, also have the Animus but egh, which isn't my main but have several poetic pieces I've bought for it.

[Krr]

a healer in c-stance is roughly 75% of a full DPS of the same item level, possibly more, so it's no wonder that having one in c-stance doing DPS is going to noticably increase DPS

[Lyzern]

There's something people still haven't realized.

In FFXIV, healer DPS is not much lower than other damage dealers, the difference comes with resource managing:

While a DD's only job is to deal damage and they have infinite resources for that (yes yes, mp/tp, but they're pretty much endless if you know basic rotations); for healers, it's about managing your MP, your time and everyone's health, that's the reason we are healers and not damage dealers, but our damage is nothing to be scoffed at, but it's also low compared to a well geared, well skilled damage dealer.

TL;DR: Imagine every class has the same DPS output, the only thing that differentiates jobs is their responsabilities to the party.

Edit: The same is applicable to tanks by the way. I'm not trying to pull the sardines my way (sorry, portuguese saying), but Warriors and WHMs deal a LOT of AoE damage, more than some of the DDs. But then again, it's burst damage, it's high on resources (TP for warrior, mana and availability for WHM) and it's not something to be used constantly.