Please disable changing Cleric Stance during combat for make healer focus on healing.

[KisaiTenshi]

You really don't get it, do you?

I've been playing the game on and off since V1.0 Beta, kid. Nothing has changed in this game regarding people complaining about DPS as a healer.

No one queues as a healer expecting only to dps.

Nonsense. If this was the case you wouldn't see WHM's entering CS and never removing it. That's one of several kinds of bad WHM's.

I have never had anyone, in any party to date ever tell me to DPS or not DPS outside a RAID. In fact I've had more commendations when I haven't DPS'd at all. I have had co-healers people say they were not going to heal in 24-man raids. For every one that says they aren't, there's several who just don't heal in any meaningful way.


The fact is, people queue as healers because the queue is faster, and Hunt/FATE grind is boring.

The situation is much different with light parties, because as the Solo Healer, you're setting the pace. The average party is less crappy overall compared to the 24-man Raid, but just like the raid party, you have players trying to just faceroll over the content so they get carried. When you luck out and get a party that actually isn't all about speed-pulling the dungeon, then you see opportunity to DPS to make the trash pulls go faster.

But as I've said (across many threads in this forum)
1. There is NO REQUIREMENT of the healer to DPS.
and
2. The developers intent has NEVER REQUIRED the healers to DPS.

If you pick the healer role in the DF queue, don't be a jerk to the party and eschew your duty as a healer. Players like Cynfael are just fine Stance Dancing, and that suits their play style. It does not however equate with everyone is required to play like him, and the average player is awful when they do outside their Static party.

Whenever we have these threads on THIS forum, it always devolves into more people saying they don't want to do any DPS, a few people berating those that don't want to DPS as being lazy or incompetent. Then there is someone else who I won't name, who says they purposely make the Healer's job harder when they tank because they believe it so.

If people weren't so quick to be abusive to each other in this game over bloody playstyles then maybe we'd have less arguments of this kind in the first place.

[Cynfael]

If people weren't so quick to be abusive to each other in this game over bloody playstyles then maybe we'd have less arguments of this kind in the first place.

This much I will agree with. Sometimes conversation can get heated (or even just appear that way since text is subject to the reader's interpretation regardless of how hard the writer might have tried to express their own), and I know that I am prone to talking myself into an elitist corner because I have such a difficult time relating to some of the concerns other players have in this area. I'm quite a bit more forgiving of my fellow players in actual gameplay than I come across as here.

On the flip side, it can be tough not to come down hard when players openly campaign for what one views as unnecessary and punitive changes to an entire role that would drastically impact your own play experience (referring of course to the OP).