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

[Lambdafish]

If I do savage as a healer Im well qualified to comment on it wether Im a casual player or not it isnt your place to judge if any playstyle is allowed to do savage

Wasn't it you that said that if you didn't play healer at savage level (regardless of how well rounded your savage knowledge is) you didn't have the right to comment? Why do you get to dictate who can and can't have an opinion, yet others can't?

They may not count it when balancing, but healer DPS can contribute to a large chunk of the shortfall you'll have when essentially fighting under the "recommended iLevel".

It also doesn't take into account rotational mistakes, meaning that what is generated is the absolute minimum DPS requirement for the party, whereas healer and tank DPS (yes, goring blade, storms eye, dark arts etc. Tanks don't complain about having rotations not relevant to their role) means that hitting this requirement is significantly easier. Healer and Tank DPS isn't small, and even if it was only saving 20 seconds of damage, that 20 seconds could still be the difference between enrage and not.

All in all, the "healer DPS isn't counted" argument is null and void unless the player is content with playing at the absolute minimum requirement of their group (which I wouldn't put past some players).