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

[Lambdafish]

Scholar is a shield healer, thats all

SCH literally has more skills that are DoT focused than they do shield related heals. You are correct that SCH does its healing through shields, but it is also a pet healer, and a DoT based DPS as a secondary. You can't pick and choose traits of a job and ignore the rest, SCH is more than 4 abilities on your hotbar.

I believe I have explained my philosophy on healer DPS, and have defended your raid ethic on several occasions, but to say that DPS isn't part of SCHs identity is as stupid as saying it isn't part of WARs identity (Fell cleave is for progression right?).