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

[Feyona]

Both of you have options. All healers have options. There are pressures in endgame raiding for all players, for both healers. So this "force" that you're so forcefully arguing against can be addressed in a variety of different ways by yourselves, the individuals, rather than expecting the overall community meta to change (which it won't).

Saying that you or anyone may quit the game isn't the catastrophic life event that it may seem to be. Sometimes that is the right choice. It's a personal decision for a personal situation.

Sure people not being able to enjoy the game doesnt effect you personally and really suits everyone that likes or enforces healer dps . So your fine, why worry about other people. ofc it doent matter. Why should it? All that matters is getting in that optimal play group.People are replaceable . To stormblad above how many times do I have to say I was persuded to go in that hard core static, they wanted to train me. I have never once asked to go in any static in all cases was asked to, in all cases, they knew I wasnt dps heal. The hard core group told me not to dps while learning a fight and the group split up in 2 weeks not due to me. So to say I tortured myself is way off the mark I went in cos they wanted me to and said ill try but felt out of depth with it.