Healers that don't want to DPS are like DPSes who refuse to move out of AoEs.

[AutoWhit]

It's attitudes like this that make me want to stop maining a heal.
I didn't call out anyone for being anything, merely noting how people perceive the heal in their group.
Take a chill pill and read it again. Seems you were confused the first time.

You don't know me OR anyone I play with, so saying that tanks and dps view healers as "burdens" until they have to engage their brains to avoid mechanics, as you say, is an insult. Maybe be a bit more careful in how you word things in the future.

[St0rmchild]

You don't know me OR anyone I play with, so saying that tanks and dps view healers as "burdens" until they have to engage their brains to avoid mechanics, as you say, is an insult. Maybe be a bit more careful in how you word things in the future.

I run between 8 and 12 instances a day, most of them as healer.
For the most part I don't have a problem with my groups - dps are smart enough to avoid the avoidable damage, the majority of tanks I meet know when to use their cooldowns. (Exceptions sadly prove the rule)
This in turn frees me up to do things my role description doesn't require me to do, but which helps my group.

Now keep that in your head and read my statement again.

The gist of this thread, and this thread does (fortunately) not represent the gameplay I generally meet on Duty Finder is that dps should not have to do anything that limits their time on target (like avoiding aoe/mechanics) and that the healer, in addition to compensating for that should contribute their GCD's to dps.

I am so fortunate the people I meet on a daily basis understand that I, as healer main, am a part of their group and that by accomodating my by actually doing mechanics, avoiding avoidable damage give me the space to play and help them -- and because they do, we AS A GROUP, get to complete our duty faster.

In case your small denomination coin still hasn't been affected by gravity yet: yes I was being utterly sarcastic with that statement.