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

[bardaboo]

But I'd rather a healer not do it if they aren't comfortable with it. This game doesn't teach a novice healer that its necessary to deal damage in a regular party make up, since its never necessary to do it in order to clear. If a healer decides to deal damage instead of healing, and uses all of their MP, meaning they have none left to heal in critical moments, then its not a good idea. If a healer decides to use cleric stance to do damage, but then forgets to turn it off when its time to heal and we wipe cause of it, then its not a good idea. Both scenarios are not far-fetched, and are fairly common mistakes that are made by novices to the game.

So my general advice, if you are comfortable to do damage as a healer, then do it. If you aren't, don't. Take the time to practice it before taking it on fully, and don't let elitists speed runners discourage you, or harass you into doing it when you're not ready. Play as good as you can, and keep getting better until you are comfortable with it..

yep the game might not teach you, so it should be our job as a community to teach. But we're at how many pages now of people defending NOT dpsing as a healer because "nurt mah jurb".