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

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Can someone who is anti-healer DPS explain to me how standing around for 98% of a fight or spamming Cure/Physick/Benefic is more fun than Stance dancing?

And also explain to me why your personal choice to slow down a run is acceptable? You may be fine with a run that's 5ish minutes shorter but what about the other 3 people playing? I guess you>them?

uhm, that's not the point. at least not for me. i don't want to stay around 98% of the time either - i want to HEAL, not dps and not staying around. but since you all are right - healers should dps when there is nothing to heal - and actually there is nothing to heal in most of the content - i quit healing. but i still want that square is getting rid of the dps-meta, removing cleric, increasing the damage of all monsters so healers have finally something to heal...

and on the other hand... i can't understand why you all are defending the dps-meta. it seems you all WANT nothing to heal, so you can pull more dps. seems you all picked the wrong class... if you want to dps, there are classes with an red icon... can you explain me that?

i mean: the whole "new perspective" for healer-dps in this topic is about making more damage to have less to heal - sounds legit, but i WANT to heal. i hate dpsing, why should i do something i hate to do something i love even less?