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

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Someone said to me recently, that to come on these forums I may be dealing with kids like in a school playground

What has this got to do with anything I just said?

and so trying to have intelligent conversations may be a complete waste of time

So wait, let me get this straight? Are you implying that I'm not capable of intelligent conversation because I don't agree with you?

Dps as healer is more potentially stressful. It does cause wipes and if you dont heal you get the blame for not doing your job.

How is this any different to a DPS that's over stretching, being greedy and failing mechanics? Causing wipes as a healer isn't a community or meta issue, that's just a lack of skill issue, same with any other job that's trying to juggle more than they can cope with.

Simple answer, DPS less but DPS smarter, think about what dots your casting where and how you can maximise your DPS per GCD. A great example of this is on A12's add phase, each wave of adds gives you 2 to 4 GCDs before they start hitting and there's tons of room for optimisation here:

The first wave I throw a pair of regens at the tanks, cleric stance and do 2 gravities + a swiftcast gravity if I'm feeling brave and haven't had to blow ED already (As a SCH I hope you've got Blizzard2 loaded for this wave).

Second wave I combust 2 the last two adds to die then combust 1 them as I move into to position to start aoe healing.

Third wave again, combust 2 both, then combust the physical add and start healing the tanks.

All of this is doable solo healing without a fairy.

Just waiting for abarrage of childish name calling next

You've asked for it in that post alone TBH.