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

[Greedalox]

To be more clear: I think healers should aspire to learn the balance between heals and DPS, but I think other players need to be more tolerant when it just doesn't happen sometimes.

I know you're probably not a member of the development team but I must ask- like water your average player takes the path of least resistance, how do you promote players to aspire to find that balance while at the same time tolerating (I think this is a loaded word, but I'll use it :P) the mediocrity of "it just doesn't happen sometimes."?

At what point is the healer who's spent 60 levels healing, has a lot of modern gear from dungeons and extremes subject to not having 90% overheaing/ standing still for 20 seconds expected to try/find that balance?

This is actually a serious question, not meant to berate you.