Is DPS'ing as a Healer Vote Kickable?

[Yonanja]

I'm all for healers dpsing while in dungeons^^
Dpsing at the detriment of healing tho, no, that's a crappy healer. And this whole "healers should dps" thing that's going around now, is making many new healers feel they have to dps as much as possible, which leads to them not keeping up with the healing, causing deaths that costs alot more time than what is gained from the healers dps. Healers should only dps when they feel comfortable doing so, not when they feel forced to because people think they "should".

[Greedalox]

Healers should only dps when they feel comfortable doing so, not when they feel forced to because people think they "should".

This explains why over half the healers you see in Expert Roulette don't DPS while they're overgeared anyhow. You're going to get lazy/unconfident healers if they're never pushed to work harder and work on the confidence. It's not a foreign concept to have basic expectations out of people. Apathy breeds apathy.

[KyleKisaragi]

Just before taking a bit of a break from the game I tried healer and tank for the first time after being a bard pretty much from launch(2.0). I levelled a few jobs for cross class and stuff, but I was bard all the way.

So from that angle I never really expected a healer to dps. Once I got to raiding with my fc, yeah for the most part healers had to dps so we could meet the dps checks. but for dungeons and the like it was never something that I worried about. And the same went for tanks. So same as a lot of people I welcome dps from both the healers and tanks and I personally would never kick someone for it! Give a hug and a comm damned straight! but as long as they are performing there primary role its all good.

Now after healing and tanking my perspective changed a little, and to be honest I can't see myself not dpsing with either of these roles. I'll admit I made a few mistakes while I was learning and got parties killed a good couple of times as a healer trying to dps. (remember to re-target the tank while you're trying to heal! >.<) but outside of endgame content these jobs are a complete snooze fest! If I wasn't trying to dps I would be bored. I mean seriously if I'd chosen sch instead of whm I'd have been able to spend a lot of my levelling dungeons in follow letting my fairy do all the heavy lifting.

So yeah as things stand now I definatly wouldn't kick you for dpsing. If you didn't you wouldn't get a comm from me though, unless things went seriously south and you pulled the party out of the fire.