Quote Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia View Post
Honestly this is the motto of the lazy healer..

Let's throw out the roles of the royal trinity and look at what your role really is...to enhance your party. If you are not dpsing and just sitting there watching tv because no healing needs to be done you are not enhancing your party and therefore not fulfilling your role. Any job should be using the abilities at their disposal to enhance the run. I dps on heals, I use my songs on bard, I even use abilities like eye for an eye and resurrection when I'm on smn, and if the healer goes down I heal on blm/smn and even pull out titan to try to save us if the tank goes down, because it enhances the overall party and I learned early on how to play my job. I have seen brand new healers dps, they sometimes fail, but that's how they learn and usually the pts are good with it. Only becoming a problem when it causes too many wipes, which it really never does.

Never state something as a fact, like healer dps is insignificant, if its just an assumption. You know what they say about what happens when you assume...
I use the same DoT rotation for SCH as I do SUM (It's the same combo of Arcanist DPS skills so it's not hard to remember) and I throw Stone 1 & 2 every now and then when the trash is well managed. But I still don't use Cleric. I've never seen a team, no matter what job I'm playing, that was doing their jobs right and the Healer was the "Make it or break it" DPS. If the Healer's Holy spell is the deciding factor between Victory and Wiping there is a DPS problem here. If every thing is dying fast but the Tank's HP is STILL dropping like a Lead Golem in the Rohtano then the Tank has issues that need to be fixed desperately.

The Healer is the ONLY position that can reliably heal the group. As both a DPS and a Tank I can remember numerous occasions where the wipe was solely attributed to the Healer running around in cleric because it was "Faster". If we wipe three times because you heal like a lvl 1 Thaumaturge then "Faster" is the exact opposite of what happens.