As a healer, is it my job to DPS? A new perspective.

[Feyona]

All regens (including Asylum) tick while you're DPSing.
Fairy heals (including Whispering Dawn) can be used while you're DPSing.
Assize heals and does DPS simultaneously.
And the other way around: your DoTs keep ticking while you're healing.

Furthermore, all healers have instant cast heals that can be swiftly used between DPS spells - and Benediction even while in Cleric Stance.

Yes and I have infinite space and mana inbetween rezes right? And theres so little mechanics there that I can do the manderville as well

[Taika]

Yes and I have infinite space and mana inbetween rezes right? And theres so little mechanics there that I can do the manderville as well

You don't have space for your vital abilities like regens, Asylum or fairy skills (not forgetting your DPS abilities)? Then there's your problem, they're kind of essential for playing the job. Here's my SCH action bars, for example:



This includes everything I can possibly need in a fight. For WHM and AST it's similar but I don't need the side bars for pet abilities. Middle row is 1, 2, 3 etc., top row same with Ctrl and bottom row same with Shift (I use middle and bottom row through my MMO mouse though).

And there's no reason whatsoever to bring up the raise argument which is in no way related to what you or I commented (our topic of discussion here was healing and DPSing at the same time). But, if you're doing nothing but raising, then obviously you have bigger issues with your group and should not worry about DPS until people are able to survive a part of the fight in the first place. Also, if you find yourself running out of MP for reasons not related to yourself (like inefficient use of healing abilities or lack of using MP regenerating abilities whenever they're up), ask for your BRD or MCH to help with that (usually all groups run with at least one of either). If you have a SMN, they do in fact have a practically unlimited MP pool, so they may help with raises as well.

[Feyona]

You don't have space for your vital abilities like regens, Asylum or fairy skills (not forgetting your DPS abilities)? Then there's your problem, they're kind of essential for playing the job. Here's my SCH action bars, for example

And there's no reason whatsoever to bring up the raise argument which is in no way related to what you or I commented (our topic of discussion here was healing and DPSing at the same time). But, if you're doing nothing but raising, then obviously you have bigger issues with your group and should not worry about DPS until people are able to survive a part of the fight in the first place.

This was random group to help someone out, and my spell bar looks like that too and not dpsing in new fights is what ive been saying all along. And there was need to say it cos your all saying theres space etc to dps in those circumstances.