Quote Originally Posted by Seryl199 View Post
It's kind of tough on this point, not sure if you tank much, but there are DPS healers that are bad. It took me a while to see this since I'm a healer main and queue almost exclusively as a healer, but some healers try to DPS and are entirely unable to do so safely. Since the point of the discussion is low level dungeons, the tank could very well be low level and not be experienced enough to tell the difference between a good healer a bad one right off the bat. It is frustrating that people don't put their faith in you when you have absolute confidence in your ability, and I think that's one reason why it's such a volatile subject. You zone in with the intention of doing 100% of your job and more, and people tell you you're doing it wrong.
This is a very good point for one thing. Along with the fact that Protect is one cast. It doesn't hurt to cast it to make your group happy and then go back to slotting Cleric. It's just stubborn and I'm of the opinion that we are healers first, so any extra damage reduction we can add is our job.

But further, how many times do we as healers complain about bad tanks? Or tanks that don't use this skill or do this other thing a certain way? Or a dps that isn't putting out enough damage, or getting hit by things he shouldn't, etc. That goes both ways. If you are thinking things like that about your groups occasionally and feel like you have the right to do so, I guarantee your groupmates are sometimes thinking the same about you and they're not always going to be wrong about that. A lot of the healers in this community have this idea that they're perfect and know everything and should never need to listen to anybody else. It's really not helpful and nobody likes any player of any role that acts like that. Be a team player.