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

[Feyona]

At the end of the day healers should DPS but if they don't want to, it should be fine and they shouldn't get kicked from party. If you can't clear content because Because DPS is to low, you should be looking at the DPS and not the healer. If the healer not throwing out any heal spells you not gonna blame the DPS. I don't know why you wouldn't want to DPS though.

Ok Ill tell you I do not mind dps to help my team, when the fight is not difficult. Or no one is dying. I do not like dps as a playstyle anyway. You do have to get used to a different set of skills. Like a guy said above may have enjoyed blm until the rotation was made kind of awkward to play and I know what hes talking about cos Ive got one. Cleric is awkward too for me, and Im not against dpsing in low levels its more about healers being forced to in high level stuff that some cant pull off so easily, but because its there some groups are taking the p**s

[Juicinators]

Ok Ill tell you I do not mind dps to help my team, when the fight is not difficult. Or no one is dying. I do not like dps as a playstyle anyway. You do have to get used to a different set of skills. Like a guy said above may have enjoyed blm until the rotation was made kind of awkward to play and I know what hes talking about cos Ive got one. Cleric is awkward too for me, and Im not against dpsing in low levels its more about healers being forced to in high level stuff that some cant pull off so easily, but because its there some groups are taking the p**s

Maybe I came across wrong. I've been agreeing with you this whole time. You should be able to just heal and nothing should be said about it. I don't expect healers to DPS as long as the group stays alive you did your job. No healer should be kicked for healing. They need to make fights more healer intense in my opinion.

[Kitfox]

They need to make fights more healer intense in my opinion.

As a design choice, only healing has this exact problem. There's only a limited amount of healing that is ever going to be needed, and better gear just makes people take less damage and healers heal more, which means healers become increasingly useless in all content as level/gear progresses. That's bad design because that makes all gear upgrades pointless overhealing. Healers would have no progression. At least by giving healers other options gives them a venue where their overhealing can instead bleed into DPS. That gives healers a reason to optimize their healing, heal more time and mana efficiently, and allocate the overhead healing power into other useful areas. You can then never be gear "capped" and all gear upgrades will actually provide something useful.