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

[bounddreamer]

1. Im a scholar, and scholars are better healers than dps,

Sorry, what?

Uh...no?

Scholars are excellent support healers. They're great mitigating damage with their shields. But as far as burst and sustained heals are concerned, no. The healing power that SCH brings to the table doesn't outweigh their value as an off healer who is micromanaging their fairy, keeping up their dots in cleric stance, and deploying shields and indoms at crucial moments of the fight. So, sorry, if you're a scholar who is healing for most of the fight and letting your WHM or AST do most of the damage, you're doing it wrong. At the very least the dps and healing should be shared more equally.

2. Dps/healers isnt something everyone can do in high content but is being forced.

One would argue that healers aren't entitled to clears of high level content if they're not going to contribute to their group in the way the current meta expects. I have my own particular resentment toward healers expecting carries here because I've been in parties with healers who clearly didn't know how to play their job properly at endgame. Some were bad enough I left the group or blacklisted.

"Is expected by a group doing endgame content that requires high skill" is NOT the same thing as being forced. You don't have to do savage. You don't have to do extremes before echo and everyone is so outgeared it's a joke. But if you want to, you have to be ready to meet the collective demands of the group.