DPSing as a healer

[Gemina]

I can't play badly on purpose. I'm leveling a Scholar solely because healers are so bad of late. It's level 45 now. It'd be 60 if not for Yo-Kai.

Yesterday in Void Ark (READ VOID ARK FFS) we had TWO healers do ZERO damage the entire run (one had 4.44 DPS one fight, the other's highest was 1.2 DPS pretty they just did it by accident) and they still let FIVE people die from completely preventable deaths (the towers on Cuchalaine for example-took over 15 seconds for me to die). These weren't standing in the stupid either, these were just regular damage deaths. Healers are just becoming worse and worse because people keep defending terrible play on the forums and in-game.
At this rate, end game will eventually be impossible as the healer skill drops like a rock.

I don't think anyone is defending a healer who isn't healing. Not from what I have seen. If these healers were letting people die and also not DPSing, then what were they doing and why weren't they kicked? Allowing a shit player to play shitty is going to do far more damage and a lot more to promote horrible play than anything you read here. And trying to beat it into a healers head that they are shit if they don't DPS isn't going to help either. I would also wager that more than capable healers stay away from raid/EX content simply because they don't want to deal with the attitudes from either side of this argument.

When you boil things down, it's about playing a caster class, and while engaged a caster (unless OoM or avoiding damage) should always be casting. This is what the heals-only healer needs to realize along with the detriment of overhealing. If they are worth their salt, they will undoubtedly conclude that (no heals needed + I should always be casting something) = DPS