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

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This is the whole point, they will still expect you to dps because they dont understand you have to heal as well

That would just be stupid. I play lots of SCH, I love DPSing as a healer, but if I see my co-healer in Cleric Stance when three people in my party are dead I'll be outraged.

Healing comes first. We're just trying to say that DPSing is a lot better than standing around during those times when everyone is healthy, which tends to be a lot of the time when your party knows what they're doing. That's all. Naturally, if people are being hit by unnecessary stuff and are low on health or dead, you should not be DPSing because you'll need all the time and MP you can get to keep the party alive.

This is just logic, it ain't hard.