Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
There is far more wrong with housing than anyone wants to admit to. The lack of instancing, the abhorrent costs, and the fact that every home is already taken before you can even blink when they add more wards.
Again, that's not this thread. If everyone deserved a house, the they would have pulled the kind of nonsense Mabinogi did with the "homestead" and it would be come an unlimited resource farm for botters. That is why instanced housing is the wrong thing to do, even if well intentioned.

Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
DPS healers... not so big a deal in my opinion. Sure, you'll get some idiots who think that spamming Holy instead of actually healing is considered beneficial, then blame the tank when they inevitably die. You also get some idiots who forget they're in clerics stance and start madly spamming heals on you because they didn't realize it reduces cures by 20%. But there are plenty of people out there who have a good balance.

If you can do it without it harming the flow, then go for it.

Besides, regardless of what Yoshi-P says I firmly believe that some content was designed with healer DPS in mind. I base this on the sheer amount of damage needed in those instances and the minimum ilvl set by the developers. Simply put, in much high end content, you would be hard-pressed to win without healer damage if you played at the base item level for that dungeon simply because there are often rage mechanics in place.
What Yoshi-P said was that they designed the dungeon content without taking into account the healer DPS. This is not by any means a "hardcore" game, so players who actually have all the gear from the previous dungeon should have no problem playing the current dungeon content. DF PUG's are not the same thing as Static's. Many of the arguments about DPS'ing as a healer completely ignore the conditions that are allowing them to DPS at all.

For example, Sometimes I get a raid where nearly no healing is required, this is because the other healer is a scholar, their fairy is doing all the reactive healing AND the players are actively avoiding taking damage, and likely also are well overgeared.

But what ticks me off is this (different from above):

Because the player just straight up went "I'm not gonna heal, at all" (and indeed didn't exit CS except to unnecessarily use Medica II,) and this has been happening more frequently. Which means that I'm having to do MY job and THEIR job.