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

[CookieMonsta]

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...

Be careful what you wish for, what is the difference between a healing rotation and a DPS rotation then if healing was more difficult? They're both rotational type playstyles. At the moment, this heal/DPS duality lends itself to the most unique playstyle of all the classes. 100% healing is more boring than you think.

[era1Ne]

Be careful what you wish for, what is the difference between a healing rotation and a DPS rotation then if healing was more difficult? They're both rotational type playstyles. At the moment, this heal/DPS duality lends itself to the most unique playstyle of all the classes. 100% healing is more boring than you think.

I also want to add that an... lets say 80% heal 20% dps "meta" will never happen in casual content for us main healers, because they have to balance this casual content around inexpierenced players or many people would stop healing, cause they get blamed for not beeing able to go further then the second boss of a dungeon for example. For the same reason we don't see many dd checks, because many dd wouldn't be able to go past it, since they do not know enough about their class. You can tell when an bard for example doesnt put their dots up, that they do not know the basics of their job.