Are healers lazy or do some really live by "I only heal"?

[SerosJourney]

I think a healer should do its best to DPS...

But Healers always have to manage their Mana!
Sometimes it's not that easy to know wether you should do Damage now or save your Mana for healing!!!

But a healer that has nothing to heal and has full mana just standing there doing nothing....that's just poor and weak!...and mean!

But it's also weak to blame a healer for missing DPS! Because it's just NOT OUR JOB TO DPS!!!
We might do it, and yes...we sould! But we are not the one to blame if the DDs doesn't make their Job well

[HyperiusUltima]

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Sure, I'm one for sticking up on saying that it's wrong to blame a healer for not DPSing because it isn't our job, but I gave specific examples on why we sometimes should. I ran into the same guy again and luckily he was the only one getting stuck in Sable Price. If me or another DPS did, then that's a situation where the Healer has to DPS to keep a single person alive and not waste 1.5k MP to revive somebody(which is a LOT at 55-56).

Mana Management technically comes with time, as I've gotten better with mana management than I used to back in FCoB. The more you work with your abilities, the more you can learn to cut down on your mana usage and abuse what you have for free.