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

[Blitzace]

Unlike some healers i think, i get a thrill from dpsing on any job. specially on my healer class. regen tank, give him a nice buff, Cleric stance and let the madness begin untill the tank drops really low, switch off -> heal -> repeat - DMG! Hoaaa! :P

[SerosJourney]

4 or 5 seconds is not really worth to dance. In that time, I get out 1 DoT and have to switch back. To much stress. To many times clecic didn't disabled after that short time, even if the button showed me, the CD is over.

You have to survive 20-30 seconds without any heal beside the HoTs. Than its worth to start DPSing. There are many tanks that are able to do this. If you are not, than you should not expect to get DPS by healers.

Learn to play your tank class first, before you are starting calling out others lazy.

Totally agree with this!!!!

[l1nk]

If any healer does not do DPS when there is no healing to be needed do not give them commendations. I never give comms to those people because they sit there and overheal my HP constantly >.>... They don't even know what mitigating abilities are.

Ye, cause I'm always crying when I don't get 4 commendations after a roulette

[Kaurie]

4 or 5 seconds is not really worth to dance. In that time, I get out 1 DoT and have to switch back. To much stress. To many times clecic didn't disabled after that short time, even if the button showed me, the CD is over.

You have to survive 20-30 seconds without any heal beside the HoTs. Than its worth to start DPSing. There are many tanks that are able to do this. If you are not, than you should not expect to get DPS by healers.

Learn to play your tank class first, before you are starting calling out others lazy.

Correction, you can get out 2 GCD's in 4-5 seconds. If on SCH, that could be 350 potency for Bio II and 230 potency for Miasma or 580 potency of damage. For reference, that is more than a Deathflare. If it's a pack of mobs and you bane that, then you're golden. I'd throw out the Bio instant cast and then turn off cleric stance and bane during your cool down anyway. Then lustrate the tank and go back to healing, while you do thousands of potency of damage.

I see you are a WHM on your list, not sure if you play SCH at all?

For WHM it's obviously different. However, if you use Holy, you stun all the mobs for 6 seconds, so you have 11 seconds of free time.

[Fevelle]

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I find 11 seconds free-time still low and risky. You have to time everything extremely well, because, with the 5 minutes cooldown, once Benediction is gone it's gone for good and Tetra isn't Lustrate that you can chain 3 times.

Usually I only DPS on bosses when at DF for two reasons: one, I have memorized the patterns and I know what to expect at each phase and two, the damage is much more steady and it's way easier to DPS between damage phases.

And before someone complains, NO, I'm not even trying to memorize trash mob skills or behavior so I know what to expect, I have more important things to think about than trash game mobs.

[Kaurie]

I find 11 seconds free-time still low and risky. You have to time everything extremely well, because, with the 5 minutes cooldown, once Benediction is gone it's gone for good and Tetra isn't Lustrate that you can chain 3 times.

Usually I only DPS on bosses when at DF for two reasons: one, I have memorized the patterns and I know what to expect at each phase and two, the damage is much more steady and it's way easier to DPS between damage phases.

And before someone complains, NO, I'm not even trying to memorize trash mob skills or behavior so I know what to expect, I have more important things to think about than trash game mobs.

Are you talking about dungeons or raids? I definitely get it in a raid. I like to know the full 'rotation' of the fight before I start to add in my DPS.

For dungeons, 11 seconds is more than enough time to dps. I constantly DPS with my sch in that 5 second window we spoke of earlier, in the manner that I said.

Anyway, it's fair if you don't want to DPS. You chose to play a healer, so that's your prerogative.

[bardaboo]

The worst is when they have lots of time and just run and jump around for 20 seconds. Stop. Cure 2 regen. Run and jump

[Chiramu]

Ye, cause I'm always crying when I don't get 4 commendations after a roulette

If you don't learn from that experience wtf do you learn from?

[Dalvy]

A healer in this game should be able to weave some damage in when there's no healing/low damage taken. There's no reason not to be.

[Kosmos992k]

I'm pretty sure that healers are meant to heal, it's in their job title so to speak.

Some healers I know play because they want to be healers, if they wanted to be DPS they'd have played Dragoon or something.

I don't think that anyone should *expect* healers to be playing as DPS.