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

[Feyona]

The really funny thing is that I feel like I have made common ground with a lot of people from this thread alone, and have a large respect for many new people because of it. When people band together to protect something they love, that is the opposite of toxicity.

Are you referring to yor likes? Why anyone could get a shitload just by insulting me alone. But do give youself a pat on the back you with the majority well done. Im protecting too, Healers right to heal as thats what I loved, playing the game for, now its not even a role, not even valued and healers are already moving off the game or being put off by the meta, and the toxicity towards those not doing it. Or even some that may have wanted to migrate here from other games see how you cant heal here. Just cos people dont speak up on here (and I dont blame them cos they get slated) doesnt mean they like dpsing their asses off you know

[Lambdafish]

Are you referring to your likes? Why anyone could get a shitload just by insulting me alone

No? I'm referring to intellectual discussion, I'm not surprised that you missed it.

[Feyona]

No? I'm referring to intellectual discussion, I'm not surprised that you missed it.

Ive not missed anything here but most of your comments were quoting me are you referring to those? I wouldnt call it intellectual. Dont think Ive even seen much of a discussion just personal opininions of me for some reason . Now taking bits out of what is said and using it is that bad behaviour? You said it was

[Lambdafish]

Dont think Ive even seen much of a discussion just personal opininions of me for some reason

If you say so

i don't queue as a healer to dps for that 10 mins either. if i wanted to do that i would have queued as a dps class. i want to heal in that 10 mins. the game doesn't offer me that, because the incoming damage is way too low. if i want to heal i have to do that in raids, because nowhere else is the incoming damage high enough to be a healer. but oh, wait, i am expected to dps in said raids, because it's hardcore content and everybody should be on top level.

This is a valid problem with the game design. The damage either needs to be higher, or there needs to be more other than DPS (that is as relevant as DPS) that can be done. I don't have a specific solution because I'm not the dev team, but this is, unfortunately, the way that the game is designed. The "downtime" between healing is designed to cater to the lowest common denominator, and the side effect is that there is nothing to fill that idle time except DPS.

Edit: probably not relevant to your complaints, but it is good to know that healing in PVP doesn't suffer from the downtime problem.

So really if healers only DPS during those specific times they are pretty much pro, which isn't asking a lot IMO.

I'm in agreement with this. I don't know where the whole "healer DPS is everywhere in high level content" mentality comes from. I know it is in the more hardcore groups but that is fine. The community is actually incredibly diverse, and there are different levels of learning, clear, farm, world first-esque party. People just need to join the ones that are right for them. I have seen far more people jump into high-level parties expecting to have an easy carry than I have a high-level player enforcing healer DPS onto a casual group (which happens basically never).