Will Healers Still be Forced to DPS in 4.0 Due to Lax Content?

[Elamys]

What you ask for just simply does not exist in this genre.

Even playing the highest difficulty raids in WoW with very high heal checks-you're still expected to throw dps when applicable (some classes even reward you for it by giving mana back!).

did you actually play the same world of warcraft i did because what?

[HappyHubris]

did you actually play the same world of warcraft i did because what?

I think he's saying that certain WoW classes work damaging abilities into their rotations for buffs (e.g. the old shadowfiend) or added miniscule damage during certain phases (e.g. wanding Onyxia), but he's bending the truth if he implies that WoW healers run into the same I'm-so-underutilized-that-I-should-DPS scenario. I played at a decently high level in classic and four expansion packs, and healers we're quite busy with healing! (Note that this might have changed with specific builds or abilities in the latest xpac, but again that would be by design and not by underutilizing healers).

Again, this thread is about undertuning incoming damage, not some sort of allergy to casting damaging spells.