The arrogance of some people

[RuleofThree]

True story: I had a tank that would pull two groups at a time, and would fall down below 50% hp in the blink of an eye. I had to spam Cure I and even some cure IIs to keep him up. Half way through, he bitched at me for not DPSing. Me, being a guy that likes to make examples by showing, rather than words, started to mix in DPS. He died immediately next pull. Then bitched at me for DPSing.

The point? You aren't going to win. This game has a community in which there is no roles anymore - everyone is dps...everyone. If DoL classes could do dungeons, you know the community here would find a way to get max dps out of miners....this game is that hooked on it - dps is crack to these people. Some people agree with this, some don't. Either way, you are going to get bitched at, just do what you are comfortable with, and move on.

[Andrea]

The point? You aren't going to win. This game has a community in which there is no roles anymore - everyone is dps...everyone. Some people agree with this, some don't. Either way, you are going to get bitched at, just do what you are comfortable with, and move on.

If you are needing to constantly heal the tank to keep him alive most normal people wont mind that you aren't dpsing. What people have a problem with are the ones you see heal, then proceed to jump around the group until the next heal is needed.

[Aryalandi]

True story: I had a tank that would pull two groups at a time, and would fall down below 50% hp in the blink of an eye. I had to spam Cure I and even some cure IIs to keep him up. Half way through, he bitched at me for not DPSing.
The point? You aren't going to win. Either way, you are going to get bitched at, just do what you are comfortable with.

There is truth to this, however that was more a case of you having a bad tank than something that will always happen.
If a tank starts dropping below 75% generally dropping cleric stance and curing back to full takes priority over everything, then it's right back to cleric dots and attack spells, out of stance heal, repeat.

If the tank is paying so litte attention to what is going on with their own health it isn't worth listening to them when they try to tell you how to do your job. A damage reducer should almost always be up, bloodbath helps, mercy stroke helps if timed right, it shouldn't all be on the healer.

Some healers aren't comfortable with risking doing anything other than healing and usually that is fine. but really if a healer was curing me from 90% as a healer myself on another character it starts running through my head how many other things i woild be doing and it slightly bothers me, not enough to say anything as long as the party is making it safely and smoothly through the dungeon mind you but i just question it when i don't at least see an aero tag on mobs from time to time