As a healer, is it my job to DPS? A new perspective.

[Genaxx]

I had a 'debate' about this recently with a healer during expert roulette. The healer had alot of downtime due to me being at 90% hp during pulls, I asked them if they could use cleric stance, their reply was 'But I will heal less'. To me that point is moot because they weren't healing anyway.

Healers can mitigate damage by using offensive skills. Holy for example, less damage to the tank because they are stun locked and die quicker due to its high damage.


Maybe when I tank I shoud stand there and do nothing once I have enough aggro and wait for it to drop again