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

[mp-please]

Back from a Roulette Snowcloak. Tank & 2xDPS new to the game/dungeon. First boss, no prob. Yeti, longest boss fight in FFXIV history. Dragoon was nuking all adds (preventing snowballs), and when we did get Snowballs, he'd kill them or hit them away from boss. A week later it dies, get to last boss, explain the mechanics and... Watch as the other DPS eats 6 Lunar Screams in a row (insta-kill). Dragoon from before is flailing around, so it's mostly me and the tank (and literally so when the Dragoon also eventually dies). The Bard at least threw in some MP restores between Raises, but the two boss fights took longer than a raid.

You could've kept the dragoon dead if he was performing that badly, hell, i would've kicked him right after the yeti boss. One thing is performing badly, another is straight out ignoring mechanics. Lunar cry isn't a one shot skill either as long you don't have weakness debuff.

[CookieMonsta]

You could've kept the dragoon dead if he was performing that badly, hell, i would've kicked him right after the yeti boss. One thing is performing badly, another is straight out ignoring mechanics. Lunar cry isn't a one shot skill either as long you don't have weakness debuff.

Do you know whats a bigger DPS loss than a party member dying/ignoring mechanics? a party member dying and not being rezzed out of spite.

[mp-please]

Do you know whats a bigger DPS loss than a party member dying/ignoring mechanics? a party member dying and not being rezzed out of spite.

It has nothing to do with spite, a healer with mp while dpsing is a better asset to the team than a healer with 0 mp because he has to constantly raise that party member that is most likely doing suboptimal dps. Considering its lv 50 content, healers can do 350-400 dps on single target, considering all those deaths the dragoon was having, it was wiser to leave the dragoon dead and pull that dps than raising it to do his >200 dps before he died again (considering the mechanic he was dying to comes up every min or so) while healer is at 0 and most likely hardcasting res most of the time.