Quote Originally Posted by Blazinhart View Post
IMO
Our role (yes, I'm a healer) is to heal. So what is really important is to maintain party members alive. Healers aren't obligated to DPS, but if you feel comfortable and can manage healing time well, you can help with some damage. It really piss me off when I hear people complaining about healers not DPSing. Man, if we wanted to DPS we would change to a DPS Role. If the DPSs aren't dealing enough damage, so they need to review their rotation, geras, or anything that is letting it down, and not blame healers for not doing what they were supposed to do.
When I go to a DG/Raid/Trial for the first time, I never DPS, because I need to learn the timing and mechanics of the battle. If I get used to the battle and it isn't a hard constant-healing MP-sucking battle, I DPS if possible. Otherwise I prefer to do my role the best way I can and do what the job has to do.
Honestly, that way of learning a fight is the least optimal way to learn a fight. If you don't learn by using all your kit, it's going to take you way longer to actually learn the fight. Your way would be like a Nin only using the AE combo until he learned the mechanics. It's just bad play at the end of the day. And for some reason, it's only okay for Healers to be bad.

CS. It's a single 5 second cooldown. And you have Swiftcast/Rez for the times you really blow it. There's zero excuses to actually not use it, besides your own irrational fear of failure.