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

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I wonder what sort of impression of this game people reading these forums. "hmm healers and tanks pressured to dps, roles all confused" " oh yes sounds like a really good game

That is necessary for role design. I have experienced first hand through research that isolating roles leads to downtime which is filled with nothing, as Zojha stated. I agree that I would like more to do that is healer or tank centric during that down time (hell, I play a PLD who is told that their class is terrible due to bad DPS - yet I acknowledge that that is the devs fault not the communities)

Community is hostile they call people a joke for having role preferences.

Or maybe they will see the 50-100 pages of ignorance from you (both intentional and unintentional) and side with the large amount of people other than KDSilver who have given thought out, reasonable answers, showing knowledge and understanding of both the community and the game mechanics. Yet again you have cherry picked and pointed fingers saying "the community is hostile" because you got called out on by someone less subtle than the rest of us.

People with toxicity like that give this community a bad reputation, bear this in mind when you call people a joke

Didn't you call me elitist several pages ago for basically no reason? I believe BoundDreamer called it character assassination, I prefer the term defamation of character. I shrugged that off, or would you rather I act the way you are?