Quote Originally Posted by Watachy View Post
If you can you DPS, you have to.

The game has been designed this way, i wouldn't mind players only healing if they were way more non-avoidable damages.
Well, as the main healer of my static, I CAN dps, and I CAN simply assume my co-healer will pick up my slack where and when I'm not healing, but I can also get my tank and my party killed that way pretty easily. So yes, I can, but do I have to? No. And there's not a single situation in game where I have to. Which is why I'm happy to do so, but will default to my main role for the sake of party success no matter what. I got nothing to prove. Sure, that's a raiding situation, but I used that merely to throw a wrench into the logic of "if you can, you have to". If I can, I will, but priority #1 is keeping my party alive and well. Period.

Also, I keep seeing so many extreme cases here. People saying "if the healer doesn't need to heal, they're just standing/jumping/emoting around and that's wrong". Yes, it IS wrong, but don't assume every healer will do that. Bad/lazy/selfish players will do that, yes, and they'll do it even if they aren't a healer.