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

[Tint]

I'm not defending the dps meta. It's what we have so we have to deal with and make the best of it. You can refuse to optimize your play and/or protest the meta all you want but it, honestly, just looks like you are stamping your feet and crying like a child who can't have a toy. It may not be what you want but refusing to work with it helps no one and will fix nothing.

and how will following the dps-meta fix the dps-meta? have you ever heared of something that's called "Protest"?

sure, i am not in the mood to gather all the non-dpsing healers together and go on strike (but i have thought about this option a while ago), but at least i can express myself on the message board...

whatever, defend your dps-meta (yes, you ARE defending it, and calling me a child just proves it even more. making fun of me because i am against the dps-meta? that IS defing the dps-meta...), play with the dps-meta, there are enough people who have fun with dpsing 90% of the time it seems, i don't really care anymore (just a little bit xD)

You didn't even answer my questions. If you are not casting DPS spells then what are you doing? YOU quit healing, but I'm asking those who choose to still play a healer job but refuse to do something of use for the majority of a run.

hm, i think i just can't answer this question, because actually i am dpsing. i just don't like the amount of it. 90% dps, 10% healing? i have played healer for almost 3 years, i played with the dps meta, maybe i was stompig with my foot, but i was just trying to do my best with this meta. and then palace of dead came and the amount of healing dropped even further to nearly 0%.... and i was asking myself: why am i still doing this? so i quit, yeah ^^

you call me a child stompig with my foot, i see myself paying a sub to be a healer in an mmo (and that's exactly the reason i bought FF14: because i can't be a healer in a single player game). that's like paying for the golf club to play golf, but almost the only thing you can actually do there is playing tennis.

i have nothing against using the other activities the club has to offer from time to time (playing tennis / dps as a healer), but when dpsing / playing tennis becomes my main activity, then something is going wrong!