Yoshi P to Mr.Happy "Heal DPS is not mandatory and no expectation for Healer to DPS!"

[Hamada]

Here is another story that happened today (posted a summery in the horrible DF thread)

So here was my friend on ast, noticed whm in party so used the buff that puts shields on the heals. She noticed right away she needed to heal more then what is usually needed and adjusted but with extra stress and pressingbuttons a lot faster, as she tried to keep aoe balance on people while doing the extra healingand while doing DPS still. She did not like how the tanks was handling titan (and got cleaved a few times, while the tank did not migrate damage as much she liked.) So she was pretty much over stressed and even with all this, she outhealed the WHM with SHIELDS (not supposed to happen, regen healers tend to place top) while completely outclassing the other healer in DPS WHILE STILL KEEPING cards up AND! doing more DPS then some DPS. This is why people call heal only healers lazy. She was able not only to recognize all this during the moment but ended up giving a com to the highest DPS (before she was given a meter from someone else along with the healing meter, she com the highest dps) while suspecting she was healing much more then needed and MIGHT of did more healing then a regen based healing. She did not know the exact numbers, that would be impossible to do, but she was observant enough to tell who the highest DPS was, the fact the co healer was not doing much, and keeping tabs how the MT acted.

Saying you need to violate the tos to tell who has the highest DPS is a complete lie. You just can't recognize if everyone is good or if everyone is bad, and if everyone is good, there is no point in caring about the numbers anyway.

For that titen today the DPS went:
BRD>BRD>DRK> the shield using AST that was working overtime in healing> the second DRK> a 3rd BRD> the SMN that kept dying > LB> the WHM who got out healed by the sheild using AST.

Q3.) So...healers now have their DPS scale with Mind AND accuracy is no longer an issue. Do you think this will lead to players having even higher expectations of healers to contribute DPS to content since it is a much easier thing to do now?

A.) First of all, we do not expect healers to contribute to DPS. However we know a lot of the cutting edge players enjoy this aspect about the job and that those progressing in the raids early on use it help clear the fights. We decided to make it so that the idea was more approachable and less punishing so that if a player wants to try it, they aren’t sacrificing all of their healing capabilities to do so like they were with the old Cleric Stance. We didn’t like seeing healers doing entire dungeons in Cleric Stance, especially if they forget to switch back and heal!

That being said, and I want you to really reinforce this to your viewers, I firmly believe it shouldn’t be mandatory and we do NOT have the expectation of them to DPS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5la_...ature=youtu.be
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...10713408585203

Let us pass all DPS checks hitting 1 button every minute then. Fair is fair, I expect healers to put in effort like tanks and DPS. Why do healers get special treatment in doing much less effort and encouraged by the producer?

I disagree even if the producer says "it is ok to be lazy and push a button once a minute while we sometimes make DPS checks so strict, a 100 ping to clip double weaving = wipe.

Why not make a game where you can "relax" and pass anything by having all jobs press 1 button a minute?

I also have a choice to kick lazy players, what then?