PSA - Cleric Stance and vote kicking

[Naunet]

It's just a game and etc etc but it's a bit horrible to expect your team to do all the work while you watch Netflix - not exactly the most team-player attitude to have in an MMO, a genre defined by working as a team.

Can we please stop with the "healers are watching Netflix" BS? Healing requires attention. We don't need to be measuring people's contribution with button presses.

While I generally toss out plenty of dps in 4-man dungeons, I find myself barely doing any damage in 8 or 24-mans - even when I'm not actively healing. And it's not because I'm being lazy and "watching Netflix". I'm keeping an anxious eye on boss mechanics and watching where players are positioned (especially chaotic in the 24-man raids), constantly repositioning myself so that I can both catch everyone in my buffs and heals (I main AST) AND be ready to avoid telegraphs. I don't run with a static, so I'm constantly anticipating unpredictable mistakes and getting myself into a position where I can correct them. While this isn't particularly challenging (especially compared to the content I do seriously raid in - WildStar), it does require attention, and IMO attentiveness on the healer's part is just as important as damn button presses.

[edit] Just... really. "You're not pressing enough buttons!" strikes me as an absolutely absurd metric for contribution - especially as applied to a role that, by its nature, requires the player to pay attention to player health bars.