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

[Lambdafish]

You may or may not agree but pld is one of the least complex classes to play. Monks maybe needing to watch their positionals more than what everyone else is casting and dragoons need to watch when and where they land blm need to watch their rotations and bards need to watch mana.

Go back and read RopeDrinks post, it doesn't take much to glance to the left and right. The difference between those classes and tank classes (with PLD being the easiest) is that we can literally watch the healers while performing our role. The point is that at the very least, someone in the party will be able to watch what a healer is doing without any detriment to the party.

Im in my cell phone, i dont know how to quote, but look at Makeda's post in last page, but as you said in yours, you're a pld main, you can slack, since your basic rotations are easy, you dont have to give more than that, as your job is just mantain aggro, anyways your own post confirmed what i said

Btw, there's no hyperbole at all, go look what that word means

My post in no way confirmed what you said, what you said is "So basically, healers should play 110% their potential always to speed the fight , anything less is unaceptable, while dps are expected to play 70-80% and thats okay, anything more its "player skill", interesting." which is a view that nobody here, especially not myself, holds, and is nothing but exaggeration on what has actually been said.

In raid content, all jobs are expect to perform at 100% (not possible, but in other words - push yourself as far as you can), and in casual content you are expected (hoped) to play at around the 70% that you describe. It was mathed out a few hundred pages ago, but in dungeons, healing only makes up 10-20% of a players potential, leaving 50-60% potential left to even meet what the rest of the party is doing.

So yes, I think hyperbole (hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.) perfectly fits your comment.

The game is the game what you do with it isnt on a timer. You cant just expect to rush through cont to just get a bird. Part of the fun is it being a challenge to get. The only challenge there is patience, and some should exercise more of it instead of joining groups and desserting them all day. and making the rest of the group wait for another member. In your words 'compromise' for the group

My life is on timer though, if I have one hour to play, I would much rather fit 20 runs into that time than 5. Farm isn't a challenge, all of the challenge of the fight has been exhausted. I am fine being patient for someone who is still rough on the fight (which shouldn't be the case if it is farm), but I'm not going to choose to make the fight slower for the sake of it, and I would expect everyone to have the same mentality.