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

[RiisWolf]

. . . . explaining why good healers in FFXIV use their entire kit.

Don't make things up to make yourself look special. You can't and won't use the entire kit. Because that'd get in the way of damage, nobody uses sleep anymore, most how'd advocate DPS healing refuse to AoE, stoneskin, neglect to use HoTs in favor of ANYTHING that'll do damage even marginally even if your time is shortened because of it, settle for bare minimums never keeping players below 50% if you could get away with it sabotaging PLD and soon WAR DPS, refuse to accept the fact you are NOT part of raid's required DPS, and worst of all, will throw standards completely out the window just to applaud any healer who does attack even if they've been so bad you might as well not been there. So bad the PLD or summoner could do a better job.

[Taika]

Shouldn't this just apply to every job period? Everyone should use their kit, but there's this incorrect mindset of "I'm a role not a job" when you most certainly are a job, that is your identity and that job identity is what fills a role—not the other way around.

This is exactly what this whole thing is about. Everyone should try to play their job in a way that's most effective and beneficial to their party. That's it.