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

[Sebazy]

That chart above is pure gold

Later, we went back in for bird farming and alt weapons and I went main heals while he went off heals on AST. He had some trouble relaxing and letting me main heal while he went mostly dps mode but we were able to trade dps windows back and forth.

This detail in particular interests me the most as I'm in a very similar setting all told and whilst it works nicely for us, it's clear it's not particularly optimal. Even on the run that got my co healer world second on A12S (pre echo), our combined DPS was barely top 50 material. On the flipside, when I'm on SCH and DPSing, my damage numbers aren't close to his, but I subconsciously bubble big hits and such even if it's not 'needed'. It makes me wonder if an aggressive 'main healer' coupled with a cautious but DPS capable SCH would actually be more effective overall.

Let me know how your combined numbers add up, it'd definitely be interesting to see <3