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

[Feyona]

People typically have an aversion to anything outside their preferred comfort level or that radically deviations from what they're accustom to. I find many healers who cling to the belief they should only heal come from WoW or even single player games where you have a specific role to fill and do little else. Honestly, healers are more like a support role in FFXIV, especially with the addition of Astro.

Just curious do you play healer in Alexander savage? Because you sound like you know alot about what a healer can do and even how they think apprently

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Just curious do you play healer in Alexander savage? Because you sound like you know alot about what a healer can do and even how they think apprently

No, but I know the roles and have played with plenty of very skilled healers. One managed to pull over 1,200 DPS on his opening rotation in A11S. That amount of raid contribution is immense, and while many wouldn't be able to pull it off. Even half as much still contributes substantially to the raid.

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How is my experiences false? I specifically stated "I find," thus insinuating a subjective stance. Likewise, I also said my "assumptions" towards healers only stems to those who willfully gimp themselves by refusing to DPS out of principle. You've seen enough of my posts to know I actually support weakening healing potency or readjusting content in some manner to better emphasize healing. Nonetheless, until that happens, any healer who refuses to adapt to FFXIV's design is lazy.

[loreleidiangelo]

How is my experiences false? I specifically stated "I find," thus insinuating a subjective stance. Likewise, I also said my "assumptions" towards healers only stems to those who willfully gimp themselves by refusing to DPS out of principle. You've seen enough of my posts to know I actually support weakening healing potency or readjusting content in some manner to better emphasize healing. Nonetheless, until that happens, any healer who refuses to adapt to FFXIV's design is lazy.

You said "many", and that just hasn't been my experience, is all. Our raid WHM, as well as my BF (who is indifferent to the whole thing and doesn't really "get" why it bugs me so much) are WoW veterans. Meanwhile, me, who opposes the current meta, had FFXIV as my first ever MMO.

Sorry, I suppose I read too much into it. It just seemed like a subtle dig at people from the language you used, but you're right, I shouldn't have gotten defensive.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

You said "many", and that just hasn't been my experience, is all. Our raid WHM, as well as my BF (who is indifferent to the whole thing and doesn't really "get" why it bugs me so much) are WoW veterans. Meanwhile, me, who opposes the current meta, had FFXIV as my first ever MMO.

Sorry, I suppose I read too much into it. It just seemed like a subtle dig at people from the language you used, but you're right, I shouldn't have gotten defensive.

Fair enough. Perhaps I could have worded it a bit better. In my experience, it has been many WoW players or just people from single player games used to setting up one character as "the healer" who dislike DPSing. Granted, I'm more referring to people who won't DPS on principle, not someone like, well, yourself, who dislikes the game design as a whole because it encourages so much healer DPS. Honestly, I'd love for them to emphasizing healing since whenever I do play healer, I want to actually be healing. It's one reason I'm not a huge fan of Scholar.

No worries though!