DPSing as a healer

[Ceasaria]

I think the problem come from the idea that we have of the three roles : DPS role is to do damages ; Tank role is to block damages, protect people, charge on enemy ; and Healer role is to heal teammate.

Here in Eorzea, the fact to dps as healer is the debate.

The thing I want to know is why this question is not ask for the tank ?
That's right, tanks must avoid other party member to be attacked and should focus the attention of the enemy.
This could be like healer, tank could not do dps, except to keep the minimum aggro.

There is a difference here :
Tank is in front of the boss, healer is not.
Tank has a sword or an axe, healer has a book or a scepter.

I think it's like symbol which indicate the fact you can dps (who want to attack with a book ? ^^)
If you put only a shield in the hand of a tank, is he should attack too or not ?

One other thing is 'damage' is opposite to 'heal' somehow. So maybe it's not concevable for some healers to hurt even if it's monsters.

If the Red Mage is a healer, because he is in the front of the boss for both heal and dps and because he has a rapier, he should attack the boss, right ?

The message I want to transmit is because maybe of these symbols, people tends to think which role is appropriate to do things like dps.
If we could have this Red Mage for healer, then these people who are not for the idea that healer have the possibility to dps and etc., maybe they could see they are wrong or still.

But I want to say, when you are capable to see through this game and understand how it's work, then you know it's not about DPS, Tank and Healer. It's about to use all you have at your disposal to make to game easier, faster and be one with him

[FunkyBunch]

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The ROOT of the problem is that Healer is a misnomer in this game. This game was designed with "Healer" DPS in mind. (Case in point, Healer DPS was required for Gordias Clears, the Hall of the Novice Training, that Cleric Stance even exists at all)
Yes you are the only class that reliably heal and heal others.

But in this game each healer was designed as a Hybrid. It's the green box and the name "healer" that makes people think they don't need to do DPS.
In reality they should be called "Support" and have a yellow background. Then this whole issue would not even have arisen.

In the game, RIGHT NOW, the game SPECIFICALLY TELLS YOU to DPS when no one needs healing. That's the developers trying to fix the bad players. And yet we still have players arguing that they are good when doing WORSE THAN THE TUTORIAL tells you to do.