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

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How is it so ' apparent' what attitude a healer may have in in an instance? When no one hardly understands what im saying here? Tbh even if you explain yourself its still taken as refusal or too lazy to learn or the best one is 'why should a group carry you' or 'put up with you' ' your slowing us down' ' your hurting the group' go learn elsewhere dps or gtfo. You make it sound like peoples's attitudes are so reasonable towards those that try. Its not reasonable here and its not reasonable in instances.

The only one who is bringing up these "unreasonable" attitudes in this discussion is you, have you noticed? All the people in this discussion who support healer DPS have made it clear that as long as a healer tries to be helpful instead of flat out refusing, they should be supported and encouraged. I understand that you have had personal experiences you have interpreted differently than that, but those are not what we have seen in this thread.

Also it was very clear in AmeliaVerves' post what kind of an attitude the healer had.

Even Lambdafish and judge suggested that you shouldnt really ' put yourself ' on groups so that they have to 'put up' with under par players. Quote ' standards' a group expects.

From my understanding they were discussing Savage static groups. Which are of course built upon certain expectations the group places on its members. There are groups that compete for world first clears, there are midcore groups that expect everyone to play as optimally as possible within whatever they view as reasonable expectations, and there are casual groups that don't even care much if they beat the fight or not, and just want to experience the content without any expectations. What they said is that it's important that everyone in a static groups shares the same standards and expectations, and that people should look for groups around their own skill and dedication level. I for example would not meet the standards for a world-first team, so I would not try to join one, but am happy in my midcore group.