Should healers now be allowed to play how they choose to play?

[Fevelle]

Well, with Stormblood people will think thrice before kicking a healer or tank.

[Feyona]

Yes you are right Lyrica, thanks for your response Maybe someone, somewhere will care if people enjoy the game experience or not, in the way it was designed to be enjoyed. That it was intended for people to have different roles to choose to play. I am sure. You see the posts here that completey insist that you do not really have a choice on whether you dps or not. Your only choice on how to play the game is dps, dps or leave. Well yes ive asked if this is fair and not wanting to head butt I will try not to do that just hope that some people would notice. That it is actually possible to enjoy the game if some do just heal. Hoping that SE will give healers their choice back

[bloodSp3c]

no ones telling me how to play. i play the way i choose to play

[ADVSS]

Im gonna laugh if you get the same "fix" that tanks got because of posts like this. Lets just have healing potency the average of your mind stat and piety together. Change cleric stance to swap healing potency with attack magic potency. Besides healings too easy now after you complain that healing tanks was too hard cause they actually wanted to dps. I just dont get it, you should embrace the little bit of flexibility you have before that gets taken away.

[Amnesia]

no ones telling me how to play. i play the way i choose to play

As long as the "way you choose to play" as a healer involves...well...healing, then I'm right there with you.

Tanks are supposed to keep aggro, that's their job. DPS are supposed to deal damage and healers are supposed to heal. As long as people fulfill the primary purpose of their role, then IMO anytime they are kicked for not doing more is a reportable offense...

[bloodSp3c]

haha. i literally lol'd
but yes it involves healing

As long as the "way you choose to play" as a healer involves...well...healing, then I'm right there with you.

Tanks are supposed to keep aggro, that's their job. DPS are supposed to deal damage and healers are supposed to heal. As long as people fulfill the primary purpose of their role, then IMO anytime they are kicked for not doing more is a reportable offense...

[Feyona]

no ones telling me how to play. i play the way i choose to play

Yes would be nice but I would be kicked or excluded, Im a scholar, general consensus is that Im there to dps, only heal when necessary. Otherwise Id never be allowed in the majority of groups, Im raiding with Ast, or wmg they are the only classes that are ok to main heal with (according to the majority)

[Fevelle]

Yes would be nice but I would be kicked or excluded, Im a scholar, general consensus is that Im there to dps, only heal when necessary. Otherwise Id never be allowed in the majority of groups, Im raiding with Ast, or wmg they are the only classes that are ok to main heal with (according to the majority)

The problem with Scholar is that their toolkit from level 1 to 50 is purely DPS-based (excluding job actions). With 5.0 and their plans of getting rid of classes this will probably change but for 4.0 I think it will stay the same.

[Juicinators]

I don't think anyone should be kicked for just healing as long as you clear the dungeon. I don't know why you wouldn't want to. I think stance dancing is fun Until you mess up and wipe lol. It's a DPS tool given to you, might as well use it. Some of the lower level dungeons I just heal from cleric stance cause the tank takes so little damage.

[SeriousxSarcasm]

snip- However you can still not agree with their playstyles, and if the other team members agree, a vote kick ensues and goes through, it IS valid. Some people will be okay with you healing only, shrug and move on, others will not.
However you play you'll be criticized at some point - for one team that gives you cheek for not broiling all the things there'll be another scrunching up their brows at a healer that isn't keeping everyone topped up. Just do what you want, have fun ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Was gonna put my own view, but you've said it better than I could haha.

to OP: personally, I'm in the "shrug and move on" category (and do you have any idea how many people are like "how f*cking dare you have a different opinion from me??" because of it? XD). So long as we're all alive, I've never really concerned myself with my party members' play styles. If they suck? Sweet, more coms for me, plus it gives me the opportunity to test myself. Buuuut, probably 80% of the community is in the "DPS or gtfo" category lol. I kinda miss things in the early dungeons they put in where you can't cheese mechanics with DPS lol (the slimes in copperbell mines comes to mind. It's boring as hell now because we've all done it a million times, but the first 2 or 3 times was interesting).