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

[Feyona]

look i love dpsing healers, but this is what i care about:
If youre a DPS and not DPSing(mch not using any tp the entire run) then that deservers a kick
Tank not tanking anything, that deserves a kick
Healer not healing, that deserves a kick.

otherwise, i am fine with whatever long as im not having a heart attack scare every 20 seconds,

Yes and I dont want to develop high blood pressure caused by the stress of seeing someone dying cos Ive just gone in cleric and have to wait 5 secs to get out of it.

[ADVSS]

Yes and I dont want to develop high blood pressure caused by the stress of seeing someone dying cos Ive just gone in cleric and have to wait 5 secs to get out of it.

Thats a legitimate reason not to dps, look i havent healed for a while sometimes if i go in and it seems like the tank is getting nuked i too am hesitant about DPSing as well, since HW i just sort of gave up on healing i just dont find it very enjoyable{mained sch from 2.1-2.4) As far as I
m concerned I wouldnt kick a healer who is keeping the party alive. But I dont think healers shouldnt be allowed to dps and make a difference when theyre comfortable. Hell alot of it is tanks speed tanking 2-3 groups of adds. Going back i would switch when i felt they arent dying fast enough for me to heal the, aka usually a few mobs left. This also depends on their use of cooldowns, etc smf ehat job i am on, its a little easier imo to bust every regen on whm them holy spam for a bit, on scholar? You need a window to dot n bane. I couldnt tell you about AST it left a bad taste in my mouth since 3.0, and I'm still hesitant bothering to level it all the way, just not my cup of tea, neither is healing anymore, so I never would kick a healer who doesnt let people die, thats rediculous. But I dont speak for all of DF, or the unknowing majority on DF, that have no idea things like protect only slightly make things easier in the long run. In tandem to all that, CS didnt have a cooldown so much back in the day that it sort of delibated the need to emergency shut off, could be another reason i dislike healing in HW

[Gemina]

Thats a legitimate reason not to dps, look i havent healed for a while sometimes if i go in and it seems like the tank is getting nuked i too am hesitant about DPSing as well, since HW i just sort of gave up on healing i just dont find it very enjoyable{mained sch from 2.1-2.4)

What she spoke of is a healer's nightmare. I myself have even had dreams where the tank dies while I am casting the cure 2 that would've saved him that was .08 seconds too late, which has really happened, resulting in wipe. How do you think I am going to feel about DPSing, and myself as a healer after such a thing happens? After multiple wipes, if you tell a group, "Hey guys, I'm just going to focus on healing." you are not going to get a whole lot of objections.

What I am ultimately happy about what you recognized, is healer anxiety exists and the fact that behind that avatar is a real person, that might have serious and legitimate hangups with pulling the trigger on Cleric stance. We simply, just don't know what's going on up there unless the healer communicates it, and they may not do so out of fear of further ridicule and badgering. Then there also exists the mentality that consoling these players only encourages poor player skill. Even from the outside looking in, you have to see how vicious this meta can be. There are few, and extremely rare players that actually benefit from this. Most only descend further into their comfort zones, and you get truly skilled healers never even setting a pinky toe inside ex/savage content.

That said, I am truly sad that you chose to leave healer for the reasons you stated. But it is always a good thing when a player finds the role and class they do enjoy playing. I came into this game wanting to be a tank as crazy as that would sound to those who know me. It was what I really enjoyed in FFXI, but subsequent mmos and FFXIV taught me that I am meant to heal. Taking the good with the bad is part of the decision making process when choosing a main.