When did this become a trend?

[Culfinrandir]

That is more than just wrong. A good healer will always keep his party alive (if they don't fuck up everything and die of stupidity) and do dps. If the healer deals dps and doesn't heal his party on top of it, he is either bad or he needs way more practice.

We *know* it's wrong because we have experience. If someone is relatively new & keeps having the deeps>all hammered into their skull it's no surprise that they try to please. After all, if the l33t are continuously telling you that deeps is king, then why would a casual not believe them? Evidence - people who watch a certain YouTube "celeb's" content & then screw up mechanics because it's how he told them to do it & he's Godlike, right? ;P

[Urthdigger]

We *know* it's wrong because we have experience. If someone is relatively new & keeps having the deeps>all hammered into their skull it's no surprise that they try to please. After all, if the l33t are continuously telling you that deeps is king, then why would a casual not believe them? Evidence - people who watch a certain YouTube "celeb's" content & then screw up mechanics because it's how he told them to do it & he's Godlike, right? ;P

I have literally never seen a healer give the advice that DPS > all. I've only ever seen it in strawman arguments from people opposed to DPSing for whatever reason. The DPS advice I tend to see is "Heal super well and toss some mitigation on the tank so you get some breathing room, and then use that breathing room to do some DPS"