Is dpsing and a healer becoming the standard norm!

[dinnertime]

my problem is the downtime is almost 100%. when i am spending more time dpsing than healing than i think this is bad game design. especially with the lack of accuracy and mana.

i was in there at day one, full blind run with minimum ilvl option and it already was a joke.

yes, a healer is meant to dps in his downtimes, i can agree to that. but i dislike the amount of downtimes. in the 2.x era i couldn't stay all day in cleric.

I'll give you accuracy but you shouldn't be burning all your MP on DPSing at all. But yeah having so much downtime from healing is definitely because of the tank changes.

I may have been a little harsh about what I've said though that healers should be DPS and that i'm rubbing it on people who are opposed to it. Like Kallera said, it's something optional for healers to do but I just believe not doing it at all is just incompetence on the healer's part. Still, you're free not to contribute to DPS.
I actually enjoy DPSing as a healer and keeping the party up simultaneously so I dunno why others can't feel the same, honestly.

[Kaurie]

I'll give you accuracy but you shouldn't be burning all your MP on DPSing at all. But yeah having so much downtime from healing is definitely because of the tank changes.

Again. It has nothing to do with tank changes. The encounters put out less damage per second. Having more VIT doesn't make you take less damage, it just adds a higher buffer before you have to heal. These dungeons don't require you to heal, because the damage per second to the tank is approximately 1/3 of what it was previously. Coincidentally, Eos does 1/3 of my healing, so I am set.