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

[Stormbad]

lambdafish I may be defending a poor standard of play but I also believe in choice.

So does everyone else, well all believe in choices. Why is "choice" exclusive to you? Is it because if someone were to "choose" to kick someone for whatever reason that they are automatically in the wrong? If you are a champion of choice, you would accept all the opinions that oppose your opinions equally.

I would be pretty hypocritcal if I kicked someone for not dpsing when I hate it myself and want to be a healer. In fact its all I like in the game and all I want to do but, still dps if the party wants me to.

So don't kick healers who don't dps, nobody is telling you to do it.

Now as for this issue of should everyone else carry him? That is personal choice, and it makes some people angry so I wish SE would make it clear either that they have to put effort in as well or they can choose to just heal.

Good for you. You seem like a patient person in game who is very willing to burn your own gametime to help someone who doesn't give a crap about your time. The anger comes from people like me, who can only game a few hours a week, who makes a PF with specific goals and having people who do not align with the goals at all. They are insulting the group and me for not aligning with the goals set in the PF and they are especially insulting for not being considerate of my tiny amount of gametime.

My stance is just to let people have fun if I carry someone I dont care. like I dont mind carrying frends at all.

Great, I love to see my friends happy too and I'll carry them through content but because I know them, enjoy playing with them and they share my values. And it's hypocritical to say let everyone have fun when you don't accept that there are people who have fun through performance and optimization. You think they don't deserve fun because they think that way?

I like people to feel happy thats all. However you think Im not perfect I know but dont hate enough to be really nasty. Im short sarcastic. Even dont debate well how I 'should' I dont really do much of 'should' . I question it.

I like people feeling happy as well, I'm sure everyone else here feels the same way. That is also not exclusive to you. Some of us choose to make the group happy by kicking underperforming people or people who do not follow the group's established rules. Why is that wrong? Is that 1 person's happiness any more important than the other 7?

Please note that all of my questions are rhetorical so please don't cut out my entire post to answer a question out of context.