Quote Originally Posted by Ariyon View Post
The problem isn't whether healers 'should' DPS, because there's too many things to take into account when making that statement: healer's skill, how well tanks manage their cooldowns, size of the pulls, difficulty of the content (DF versus something like Midas Savage), connection speed, gear quality, etc.

Can they DPS? Absolutely. The problem is how people try to convey this point, because I see so many people on forums and in-game stating it as if healers must do damage or they're playing incorrectly, and that's as ignorant as it gets. Is it less than optimal? Sure. But it's not a requirement. If it were you'd think SCH and AST would have been given their own DPS stance instead of leaving it as an optional cross-class ability, or they'd make healer spells scale to MND instead of INT.

A healer that doesn't DPS isn't playing wrong, they're just not playing the way you want them to.
This is like saying DRK and WAR don't need provoke because it's an optional cross class or SCH and AST don't need to use protect. Some actions exist on the cross class to prevent them having to make the same skill for each individual class. Also by your logic WHM should dps as they were given Cleric Stance through CNJ.

If you was solo I'm sure you would use Cleric stance and why do you you do this? To make the fight go faster and save having to cure yourself more. Same thing in party's you DPS where possible to aim to push past mechanics making the fight go faster and smoother.

End of the day though you are right you don't have to dps as healer, but don't complain when another healer who can use every skill available to them gets chosen for content instead.