Regarding healers acting as DPS

[VanilleFang]

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First, I would just like to tell you that you don't need to post twice in a row. You can edit your post to bypass the dumb 1000 character limit.

Second, I think you should go redo the CNJ quest line. And this time actually pay attention to the story of it. I'll give you the short version here though. The CNJ quest line is about a CNJ that refuses to DPS and complains that she is a healer thus she should only heal. She is the one in the wrong during the story. Yes a healer is a healer, but they are also part of a team and thus should be doing their best to defeat the threat that is before them.

Third, You sound like a rude tank and I don't think any healer would want to party with you. It's not your choice on what someone else does. If you don't let me replenish my MP I'll let you die. I've done dungeons without a proper tank before, and I'll do it again. You don't hold so much power as to hold people hostage to your whim. And also, if you think it's only DPSing healers who let you die then you haven't been paying attention. I've seen tanks die to healers who do nothing but heal because the healer wastes all their MP on bad healing choices. I've seen lazy healers who are late at healing who don't DPS as well. It's a ridiculous misconception that people like you (anti-DPS) seem to have. You see DPSing as the cause to your death. No. It was a bad healer that caused you to die. Or it was your fault for pulling too much. Or something else. It is not always them DPSing that killed you.

Next, a good healer shouldn't be that hard up for MP between pulls. The only spell for a WHM that costs a crap ton of MP is Holy, and you learn SoS long before you learn Holy. A healer who makes proper use of their cool downs shouldn't have many issues with MP against trash. SCH are ridiculously good at keeping their MP up, and AST learn their refresh earlier than a WHM and they have no MP intensive offensive spells pre-52. If a healer is running out of MP by spamming stone/malefic/ruin there is a major issue.

And lastly. Have you ever played any other RPG before? I'm just curious. Let's take FFIX for example. So, Garnet and Eiko are both healers (Eiko more so than Garnet). Are you saying that in this game that they should ignore their very, very powerful and useful Eidolons (summons) and only heal the party? What about a game like Tales of Xillia. Elize is the healer of the game, and she's broken as hell as one. But she's also an incredible offensive mage. Are you saying that when healing isn't needed that she should just stand around and not deal damage? Healers that can deal damage is not new. It has been around for a long time and for good reason.