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

[Lambdafish]

Just skipped over my main point didn't ya?

I didn't, and sorry if my response was a little condescending. This thread is not a question about inexperienced healers though, naturally inexperienced healers will perform their job wrong/inefficiently and may need people to slow down a little so they can learn. The thread is asking "As a healer, what am I supposed to be doing?" and the answer to that is "whatever is the most important responsibility on each GCD", which is a responsibility shared across all roles (yes tanks sometimes heal, DPS sometimes manage enmity, and all three deal damage). Is everyone at full health? Then you should be DPSing, overhealing and idling helps nobody, just like as a tank I can ask myself "Do I have a sufficient lead in enmity?" if the answer is yes then I should be using my DPS rotations.

While you may be ok with the "letting people play how they want" mentality, all it does is excuse lazy play in group content, which drives player complacency up and overall skill level down. Then what happens is people cry on the forums when content actually gets hard (Pharos Sirius, Steps of Faith, Weeping City, all content that isn't that hard). This is a bigger issue than healer DPS though, and feeds into overall game difficulty and skill gaps throughout different content in the game, which is a hotly debated topic that people should be far more open minded and invested in.

[LadyAveria]

I didn't, and sorry if my response was a little condescending. This thread is not a question about inexperienced healers though, naturally inexperienced healers will perform their job wrong/inefficiently and may need people to slow down a little so they can learn. The thread is asking "As a healer, what am I supposed to be doing?"

Alright! Fair enough! This thread is about if a Healer should and in an ideal party a healer should DPS if they can. I just didn't want people forming some kind of mob against healers who don't because of the ones that are still learning ^+^ I have been in a raid with another healer and the members just kept scolding and being complete butts when the healer stated at the start they were new.