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

[Stormbad]

Oooh oooh oooh, I wanna make an anology too, this is fun.

We are a squad of marines on the front lines. We have a squad leader, several people in a firesquad and a marine medic. The medic is there in case of injury and to treat the wounded, but if he refuses to pick up his rifle in the meantime, he'll be booted out of the squad in no time.

Thus you can accomplish your main goal (of keeping your squadmates healthy) by not only treating them when wounded but also by contributing to destroying the enemy in the first place.

[craized]

you obviously haven't seen hacksaw ridge =p

though your analogy is a bit better than the football goal keeper thing.

however it isn't exactly accurate. a combat medic generally doesn't join in with the fighting. Generally speaking, they only fight in self defense, usually only when they come under attack, and usually at short range while trying to treat casualties. also your bog standard section wont likely have a medic attached, seeing as all marines (and indeed all forces personnel) are trained in first aid. a medic might be attached to the platoon, but he probably wouldn't go out on a fighting patrol with the section. you could say marines are more like paladins lol.

[Judge_Xero]

Thus you can accomplish your main goal (of keeping your squadmates healthy) by not only treating them when wounded but also by contributing to destroying the enemy in the first place.

Can I try to debunk this one?

In a far off galaxy you end up fighting a vicious Hydra and because the medic is helping to attack and shoot of it's heads off, then too many heads grow back causing the hydra to wipe out your team.
Therefore a team of 8 Healers that don't DPS beats all.

[Stormbad]

you obviously haven't seen hacksaw ridge =p

though your analogy is a bit better than the football goal keeper thing.

however it isn't exactly accurate. a combat medic generally doesn't join in with the fighting. Generally speaking, they only fight in self defense, usually only when they come under attack, and usually at short range while trying to treat casualties. also your bog standard section wont likely have a medic attached, seeing as all marines (and indeed all forces personnel) are trained in first aid. a medic might be attached to the platoon, but he probably wouldn't go out on a fighting patrol with the section. you could say marines are more like paladins lol.

Oh, I loved that movie, but realize that's very unconventional, which makes drama which makes a great story/movie. You edited your post since I applied. My additional edit, all marines are riflemen first, just because you have a specialization does not mean you are not a rifleman and expected to fight. I would say the squad leader is more like the paladin, directing the group and delegating the tasks, fireteam as dps, and medic as a healer. Yes, marines have first aid training but that equates to skills like second wind and and clemency not a medica II. Yeah, in real life it is unlikely that a doctor will be attached to a squad on the front lines but if he was ordered to go, he better damned well be able to fight too. Everyone relies on each other.

Can I try to debunk this one?

In a far off galaxy you end up fighting a vicious Hydra and because the medic is helping to attack and shoot of it's heads off, then too many heads grow back causing the hydra to wipe out your team.
Therefore a team of 8 Healers that don't DPS beats all.

Good try but that looks more like a failure to do mechanics rather than a problem of healer contributing to the damage.

[Taika]

The football team is your group
The goalie is the healer.

The goalies job is to stop goals right? The healers job is to keep the team alive.
If the goalie is trying to score goals, he's not defending the goal. (HINT- this is the same as the healer not healing)

Except in a Savage raid group in XIV, the healer's job is to contribute to DPS, and without that contribution, the team will fail - even if the rest of the team members are the best players in the world (unless, in the context of XIV, all the DDs and tanks are overgearing the content). Which is why it's a fair comparison.

Although the example was directed more to the point that it's a team game, and everyone in the team should work towards progressing the team's common goal and not refuse to do that just because you don't find it fun, or whatever.

[Clethoria]

Except in a Savage raid group in XIV, the healer's job is to contribute to DPS, and without that contribution, the team will fail

Except, like, no it wont. You do not speak for the thousands of instances that have taken place over the course of their implementation.

[Taika]

Except, like, no it wont. You do not speak for the thousands of instances that have taken place over the course of their implementation.

We are talking about Savage raiding content. As in Alexander Savage instances. Which most if not all have been literally impossible to beat without healer DPS when they have been added to the game. If you don't believe me, it's very easy to check the combined DPS numbers from the best DD and tank players in FFlogs from the time the content was added and then compared that number to the minimum DPS requirement of the boss fight.

For example, Cruise Chaser world first team "only" had 8719 DPS without their healers (of course it would change a bit when the duration of the fight would change), while the minimum requirement is around 9118, and they weren't far from enrage. And I'm pretty sure these DD and tank players were giving their best and not slacking, but of course you can try to place higher expectations on your DDs and see how that goes.

I finally beat A1S the other day and I can tell you for certain that @ i270 with 20% Echo healer DPS is not needed. But then again neither is a healer.

[Judge_Xero]

We are talking about Savage raiding content. As in Alexander Savage instances. Which most if not all have been literally impossible to beat without healer DPS when they have been added to the game. If you don't believe me, it's very easy to check the combined DPS numbers from the best DD and tank players in FFlogs from the time the content was added and then compared that number to the minimum DPS requirement of the boss fight.

I finally beat A1S the other day and I can tell you for certain that @ i270 with 20% Echo healer DPS is not needed. But then again neither is a healer.

Even at 20% echo, healer dps is expected. I guarantee you if I went in there and didn't dps in a light farm, I'd be asked to do it even if I'm solo healing.

I couldn't resist posting such a ridiculous/sarcastic example.

[bounddreamer]

I finally beat A1S the other day and I can tell you for certain that @ i270 with 20% Echo healer DPS is not needed. But then again neither is a healer.

Even at 20% echo, healer dps is expected. I guarantee you if I went in there and didn't dps in a light farm, I'd be asked to do it even if I'm solo healing.

[Feyona]

I will admit that I don't know the situation

Again implying that I never tried. Really and you just dont get it not all of us are 'athletes' what if I have reached my skill cap? And again wrong because main healer has to constantly heal the tank when your as low geared as we were at the time. And if you dont believe I attempted to learn dps as scholar look up the next lot of parsers where I did 600 dps. Not improve? Does this come overnight then? Agian I repeat people cannot play optimally until they learn the fight and if your looking at the wmg one that wasnt my static it was a one off random group, plus wrong about the ast as well , cos if I didnt spam heal tank with adlo every time I could he would die. So ast didnt havve everything under control at all. Well yes Its apity there was no one there to show me how to play sholar at start. So I dont feel your getting my points that you cannot EXPECT healer dps in all cases. And here you are expecting it with your view that if there's overheal you can somehow slot it in . The answer is I was main healing spamming tank heals as a sch.