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    Taika's Avatar
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    Purple Rain
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    Sophia
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    Arcanist Lv 32
    Quote Originally Posted by AutoWhit View Post
    If you choose to chastise and call people out for not going above and beyond what their role is
    It's not about people "not going above and beyond what their role is", it's about all party members making an equal effort towards the party's goal and setting the bar at same level for everyone. A healer who refuses to DPS is simply not participating as much as their other party members*. If it's not ok for a tank or a DD to only use one skill per minute and be considered a "good enough" player, it should not be ok for a healer either. That's why keeping the party alive and doing some DPS should be what's considered the minimum level of participation from a healer (again, apart from certain very specific circumstances).

    Expecting someone to go "above and beyond" in healer role would be to expect them to maximise their DPS while they optimise (= minimise) their healing. And absolutely no one in this thread is suggesting that should be the standard.

    * I actually tried once doing an expert as WHM without doing any DPS. As a result, 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 36%. Here's the whole story and a video of that run.
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    Last edited by Taika; 02-11-2017 at 03:37 AM.

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