Quote Originally Posted by bounddreamer View Post
We had some pure healers yesterday in A12N. The party wiped twice at the end of the fight. Both healers had nearly full mp bars. Once the tanks (who were mitigating) went down, the party slowly collapsed until we wiped. Twice.

Pure healers =/= good healers.
Yup, my last experience in that fight was with a no-DPS AST, so I first let her solo heal --> couldn't keep tanks up in add phase... In the end, I ended up doing DPS and healing more than this AST on my WHM.

Based on my experiences, often it seems the healers who don't DPS don't know how to use their heals and buffs correctly, and because of that their healing is ineffective (spamming cure II when Divine Seal regen would do, using Medica right after Medica II to cancel the usefulness of the regen, not shielding tanks for tank busters, not utilising Virus, Disable and Eye for an Eye etc.) and they're running out of MP. Learning to DPS as a healer requires one to know when and how much damage is coming and also how to use your abilities as effectively as possible to create room for that DPS.