DPSing as a healer

[FunkyBunch]

I'm curious. What are you trying to achieve exactly? Is your aim to ultimately force every healer start DPSing? If so, you should probably stop wasting your time. If your goal is to prove a point. It's safe to say you've done it already. Regardless, I can't see anyone changing their mind or style of play based on someone else's opinion of how it should be done. I know I certainly won't, and from the looks of it, no one else who've disagreed with you will either. If you manage to get to end game on a healer, then how you do so is irrelevant. It's not a hardcore, or competition style game, you're not gaining anything by clearing a dungeon 20 minutes faster then the last guy. If your personal goal is to get through them as fast as possible. Then obviously using a random group composed by the system is not what you should be doing. Form your own. Simple.

TL : DR - Help me understand what your goal is.

The goal is for you to understand that you're playing suboptimally. You asked for evidence of how it makes a difference. I gave you a noticeable difference.
And yes 20 minutes extra in a dungeon, per dungeon per day is a lot of friggin' time.

The over-arching goal is to make healers aware they have an outsized impact on group clear times, and if they DPS, even moderately it can drastically decrease clear times.
There's no reason to have a single character doing nothing.
You aren't an end-game healer. There's no raid group in the world that would let you heal that way. We are trying to bridge that gap and get the terrible healers (0 DPS ones) to improve just a little bit so they're not a drag on the player base at large.

Just so you know, I help all classes when I'm paired with them in dungeons if I know a better way for them to do what they're doing. But it's healers, and only healers, that steadfastly refuse to listen to any advice ever. As evidenced by your arguments in this thread. Even when proven with numbers. (Though I did have one BLM who insisted on casting Sleep, Lethargy and Freeze in one dungeon and told me it was his subscription)