Rant on healers acting as a dps role

[Ghishlain]

And yet I do see this attitude creeping into endgame linkshells. Some healers, if they have to step out of cleric, it's basically "wtf".

As in, the other healer might have made a mistake, or a tank might have, or a DPS might have stood in something. Either way, someone screwed up and they need to git gud/be repped.

I also see my FC teaching SCHs that they are the "off/support" healer in 8+ content should be spending the vast majority of their time in cleric. Seems that's still the general meta in endgame groups as well...

Unfortunately, most people give advice without providing proper context to what the advice is actually suppose to entail. Advocating "100% CLERIC STANCE SCH" is akin to tanks advocating "STR TANKS OR BUST" and without properly explaining WHY this is effective will eventually lead to failures. These SCHs or Tanks feel they're doing it right but are actually doing it terribly wrong and getting people / themselves killed because they aren't (in the case of SCH) providing proper party support at correct intervals or (in the tank example) not using their cooldowns properly / not enough HP to survive tank busters and expect their healer to do the bulk of the work in that case.

Encouraging higher levels of play is important as long as the foundation for this higher level of play is created first. Telling a SCH "Cleric's 100% of GTFO" without context doesn't cultivate any adaptability and just prevents the growth of a player. I just wish more people would understand this. *Shakes head* (this isn't a knock against you directly, just my general soapboxing about the playerbase)