Quote Originally Posted by Taika View Post
... My question is, why is it good enough participation from a healer to only use 1-3 abilities every minute, while this would not be accepted for a tank or DD? The only argument I've seen for this for now has basically been "it's ok for them because their jobs are called healers", which just isn't very convincing.
Because people always take it to the next level and start demanding that you always dps when not healing. And as I've said before, you get new players that adopt that mentality from the get-go and start turd-flinging without a clue. If a healer does nothing else they'll dps naturally, or not, who cares. It's what this type of mentality evolves into that causes problems. I've played DPS, tank and heals in raids, and heal dps is never an issue if you just want to clear/progress through instance. It's only an issue when people make it an issue.