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

[Lambdafish]

That said, if somebody noticed the healer isn't DPSing, that is 'eye-time' not spent looking at their own actions. That alone will drop their DPS by a good 5-10%... So if you wipe because "the healer wasn't DPSing" it is more likely you wiped because half your DPS were watching the healer's cast bar rather than their own...

As a PLD main tank, my DPS rotation isn't difficult, neither is positionals, so I can get a good view of what everyone else is doing a lot of the time (especially the healers).

Your right communication is bad, and so are most, not just a few of the groups, for farms on Zurvan. Most fail actually. Its the worst primal farm to go on, in my experience. Not just for people failng but for people leaving for one wipe. So you could say they had some higher expectation. I have heard of healers being booted for not dpsing enough though as well.

This is a problem with Zurvan. The whole soar controversy was an oversight from the devs, and the reason why healer DPS is so clamoured for in that fight is because skipping difficult mechanics is the difference between faceroll and challenging fight. If you do not pass the DPS check then people are going to quit/kick.