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

[Taika]

I keep seeing the word lazy. Why is that even thrown around on a game? Why is it bad to be lazy when playing a game?

Because certain level of effort is required from each party member for the group to be able to beat the content they're trying to do. If someone in the group is making less effort than others, the others have to carry their weight, and it's not fair. It's being lazy at the expense of others, and that's the issue.

For example, in an expert dungeon run where I was only healing as WHM, I was active 17% of the whole dungeon while the rest of my group members were active 72-77% of the dungeon - while my overheal was still at 35.90%! If everyone else had been contributing at the same level than me as a non-DPSing WHM, we either wouldn't have been able to clear the content or it would have been significantly harder and/or slower.

The issue is that some people are promoting this as a valid play style for haler jobs, while it would not be accepted from anyone else (or how would one look at a tank or a DD who would be only doing something for 17% of a dungeon?).