Dps As Healer

[DamianFatale]

Well, looks like Yoshi P said it. You heal, and then you dps if you want to.

[Evergrey]

He said he doesn't like Cleric Stance. A healer is a healer. But if they took it away alot of people would get very upset.

Kind of took me by surprise. I thought he said that healers should do DPS if they can earlier. Now it sounded like he doesn't like that idea.
I'm confused.

[Bixillarla]

Thank you Yoshi for backing up my position lol. I don't DPS as a healer, we are there to heal not do damage.

[jameseoakes]

I don't think he can do much about cleric stance at this stage without wiping out the Duty Finder queues.

[Magic-Mal]

The war truly is eternal...

[NolLacnala]

Main Class: Scholar

[AlphaSonic]

You are talking about the same person that decided that the solution for AST problems for this expansion was giving him so many buffs that people would take it instead of WHM. I don't trust his judgement on class balancing since this Q&A.

[Lilseph]

If Yoshi-p doesn't like it, it means nothing to be honest. He can also have an opinion. Having the option to do it is still great and I highly doubt they'll remove it. Also, please let's not start all over again with this: If you don't want to DPS, don't do it, if you want to DPS do it. I personally think it's lazy to not to, but I wouldn't kick a healer for not doing it.

[PondHollow]

I like DPSing as a healer, and in particular quietly out-dpsing other party members. This is because once you have a hang of the stresses involved in healing a nasty fight, it becomes boring. There is a binary task to accomplish and nothing else to do healingwise. It would be nice if party HP affected DPS, or if high party DPS provoked greater enemy DPS (to make you need to heal more), or if I could increase party performance. Cintamani on Sophex for example rode me roughshod in the first month and it would be nice if it continued to do so once healers were better geared. But that's not how it works, so I'll set my eyes on DPSing harder.

[dayspring83]

Thank you Yoshi for backing up my position lol. I don't DPS as a healer, we are there to heal not do damage.

Soooooo what do you do the x% of the time when you're not healing? Sure you don't have to DPS, but why wouldn't you? It makes the runs go faster and it gives you something to do that makes this more challenging. I just don't understand that "argument" of 'I dont have to so I won't'.