DPSing as a healer

[RajaVamberaux]

As long as they are trying their best even if they're struggling while only healing, I don't think anyone has the right to label them as bad (but that's just me and my education :P)

I may try my best at juggling but I'm still terrible at it. Sometimes things really are just objectively bad.

[Fevelle]

I may try my best at juggling but I'm still terrible at it. Sometimes things really are just objectively bad.

But that still doesn't mean they should "give up and find another job or another game", like someone said in this thread.

[KaitlanKela]

No, you're absolutely right. they have a right to be bad.

But they don't have a right to be objectively bad and simultaneously claim they are good and try to persuade people that lazy play is actually good play.

And I do have the right to kick them (I personally wouldn't unless they were prohibitively bad at healing to the point where we couldn't clear, but I do have a right to). And I respect other people's right to as well, and I'm not going to judge them or call them expletives for it either.

[FunkyBunch]

No, you're absolutely right. they have a right to be bad.

But they don't have a right to be objectively bad and simultaneously claim they are good and try to persuade people that lazy play is actually good play.

And I do have the right to kick them (I personally wouldn't unless they were prohibitively bad at healing to the point where we couldn't clear, but I do have a right to). And I respect other people's right to as well, and I'm not going to judge them or call them expletives for it either.

Yes, no one is saying that Healers can't be bad or terrible at the game.
The issue is the entire "being bad is totally good" that Healers and only Healers have.

If I'm a juggler, and I suck, no one is going to pay me to juggle. I can juggle all I want, but when I do it in front of others badly, I would expect them to laugh or tell me I'm terrible. I wouldn't argue that actually I'm a super amazing juggler and I'm the best at juggling.

[Fevelle]

If I'm a juggler, and I suck, no one is going to pay me to juggle. I can juggle all I want, but when I do it in front of others badly, I would expect them to laugh or tell me I'm terrible. I wouldn't argue that actually I'm a super amazing juggler and I'm the best at juggling.

No one says that. What we say is that people should not laugh and tell that you're terrible, or even remove you from what you're doing, because at the very least, you're doing the minimum required by keeping people alive.

[FunkyBunch]

No one says that. What we say is that people should not laugh and tell that you're terrible, or even remove you from what you're doing, because at the very least, you're doing the minimum required by keeping people alive.

That's pretty much exactly what the zero DPS healers have said.
"I'm great at my job, really good at it" despite being objectively terrible.

[AristocraticCorgi]

That's pretty much exactly what the zero DPS healers have said.
"I'm great at my job, really good at it" despite being objectively terrible.

A healer that can't effectively DPS while healing ain't a good healer by any objective measure.