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

[Adventica6]

There is a mindset already VERY well established that if a healer is not dpsing when possible then that player is not playing optimally. This falls into the "Difference of playstyles" category. Whether you like it or not, if you are not dpsing as a healer when there is nothing else to do, then people will be hovering there mouses over your name to initiate a kick and more often than not that kick will pass.

It's called being fair to the people in your party, standing there doing nothing is not acceptable if people are at full hp. I urge any healer going into SB to try doing a dungeon and stand around doing nothing for 20+ seconds of every minute, tell me how long you stay in the dungeon, consider it my experiment for you.

[Lunaxia]

uh

It's like debating with a parrot...

And I'm not sure what it is about my character that offends you, but based on your past reasoning I doubt it'd be anything even semi-coherent.

Please go troll elsewhere.

[Deviru]

Anyone remember the Conjurer class quests? Boy, I sure do.

[Arkdra]

You still miss the part about me saying "If everyone does his job properly, the dungeon finishes easily".

Healer = Healing
Tank = Tanking
DPS = Dealing Damage

This is wrong FYI. Here it is for real.

Healer = Finish the dungeon as fast as possible.
Tank = Finish the dungeon as fast as possible.
DPS = Finish the dungeon as fast as possible.
If you as a healer aren't dpsing then you aren't actually doing your job and I will trash-talk you in ls or fc chat the same as I would a threat-combo only tank or a dps who single targets in AE situations, even though both of them are technically doing their role, according to you. I won't vote kick you though, unless someone else triggers it anyway, and I also won't commend you ever since your job could have been done by a drinking apkallu and /follow. I fairly routinely com healers who go too ham on DPS and accidentally let people die though, at least an effort was made.

Funny how I almost never am left to die by a healer who is dpsing though, while the jerks who want to afk and watch netflix on their 2nd monitor are perfectly happy to watch me slowly die from unavoidable AE's and not do anything about it.

[Rasylia]

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Your problem (and a lot of other people have it as well) is that you only know extremes.

[Squigley]

Ohhh, this thread is almost as good as the "We're all DD's now"
Of course healer dps is optional. If it wasn't, we'd have dps checks where flawless party dps job performance wouldn't be enough to clear. But what Yoshi says doesn't really matter. What matters is how the game actually is (lots of healer downtime) and that 'Difference in playstyle' is a valid reason for votekicking a near-zero contribution healer.

[Lunaxia]

Your problem (and a lot of other people have it as well) is that you only know extremes.

Your problem is that your argument has no leg to stand on.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Anyone remember the Conjurer class quests? Boy, I sure do.

Oh, Reddit has been having a field day with this.

[Lilseph]

Anyone remember the Conjurer class quests? Boy, I sure do.

Allow me to fix it for you:



Reality:

[Arkdra]

Your problem (and a lot of other people have it as well) is that you only know extremes.

Hmm yes I can see how, "Finish the dungeon as fast as possible." Is an extreme stance to take.