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

[Lambdafish]

ANYWAY, sorry, I'm getting side-tracked. My main point is, I think it's okay to be in-the-middle about this issue. ^_^ Is it nice when healers DPS? damn straight, and I intend to be one of them (when I suck at it less).

The thing is, DPSing as a healer IS the correct way to play. Your argument is how harshly treated players who play incorrect are. Nobody can make the argument that only healing is the right way to play, because it isn't, and it neglects half of a healers toolkit (hell, SCH is a DPS for the first 30 levels). I do feel that players who struggle with healer DPS be helped and not shunned, but lazy players should not be supported when all they want to do is heal and idle. It's gotten to the point where there are threads asking for cleric stance to be disabled in group content, and that is not ok.