Is DPS'ing as a Healer Vote Kickable?

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It's not outlined by square enix, but it's rather outlined by the community.

Not taking you out of context here, merely using you to debunk this:

DPSING as a healer is part of their job, as i already said the game has been designed this way and if you want an ingame-clue try the hall of novice.

The devs have straight up told us that they did not design healers to be used as damage dealers in party play, but were happy to let players do it because it was just creative use of ingame mechanics.

Regardless, feel free to do the absolute bare minimum. Have a tank stop doing skills once they've established Agro. Have DPS in your party just do auto attacks. That isn't fun for me, but obviously that seems acceptable for you.

Except no one does this. No one. Nor is anyone advocating it.

If a Tank actively stops hitting things, they're plain bad. If a DPS stopped using skills, they're no longer fulfilling their primary role. If a Healer stopped healing, theyre no longer doing their job. A party of people behaving as such will not clear the duty.

Why do you equate a Tank that doesnt stance dance to maximize damage or a Healer that isn't slipping in and out of Cleric Stance to people that are literally afking?

The ONLY thing the party gains from a skilled tank and healer maximizing their damage outputs while also fulfilling their primary role is a faster clear time!
What you are doing is crying about random groups not being super efficient.

You said yourself that it is the community who decided that Healers must contribute damage at all times. Yet there are members of the community who clearly disagree on what makes a player acceptable to party with.
If you're using the Party Finder to make your own Parties, set your own damn rules and what roles you expect of Healers and Tanks.

In the DF, where you will encounter random players of varied skill and confidence, you have no right to enforce your own opinion of how others should play there. You're demanding they change their playstyle to suit YOU. Thats what the Party Finder is for!