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

[Hikuras]

Thanks for the tips Ama. I know it wasn't the best astro example but I just wanted to show you can DPS and heal in content. But I got lots of learning to do so maybe I shouldn't try to explain it to Kasia... >.> Am I making sense?

[Hamada]

Thanks for the tips Ama. I know it wasn't the best astro example but I just wanted to show you can DPS and heal in content. But I got lots of learning to do so maybe I shouldn't try to explain it to Kasia... >.> Am I making sense?

I know, and feel free to share what I said to your friend. (I am just here to help others i encourage to tell them) Also I would both take from this why it is helpful to be aware what others do and how well they are doing it since it effects your effort. To get though it the quickest it means fine tuning and adjusting your play styles with them to speed things up a bit. My friend had a brd JUST like that and said "ballad me" (same person where all the healing advice came from) and increased the DPS output so she can make up what the brd wasn't doing.

I'm disappointed that no one in all these pages has even tried to answer my question:

Why should it matter to anyone's gameplay what Yoshi P says about anything?

If Yoshi P says BRDs shouldn't be expected to sing, or that it's alright for off tanks to stay in tank stance, that does not mean that either of those things should be acceptable behaviour in the game. Whatever Yoshi P says does not have any direct affect to the actual gameplay. But player expectations (and meta) derive from the game's design, and that he in fact would be able to change - if he would wish to do that. But instead, he keeps enforcing design that actively supports healer DPS - more and more the further we move with the game.

People who claim healer's job in this game is only to heal are wrong, that's a baseless argument that can't be justified with how the game actually works. (And this comes from a person who's been a healer main in this game from 1.0 and played through almost all content as a healer.) Or can anyone logically explain why it should be alright for them to only use this one part of their abilities? With anything else than "well they're called healers", because that's not a good argument for anything and it's not in line with the expectations of any other role in this game (tanks too are expected to DPS and DD jobs are expected to support).

All jobs in this game are expected to use all of their available abilities in a way that supports their party most efficiently. This means that tanks are expected to go to DPS stance and focus on that when it's safe (at least when there's nothing for them to tank...), Summoners are expected to Raise / Virus / Eye for an Eye, Ninjas are expected to Goad and help with enmity, Bards are expected to sing, and so on. This does not mean everyone is expected to offer their 100% optimal performance on each duty finder run. But people are expected to actively participate and try (at their own level of skill and experience) to support their party with all the tools available to them.

For the first question it shouldn't and I agree with the other 2.

[Hikuras]

Tell your friend stuff.

I told him and he was O.O. Said he'll go train on the advice. Tho he's a monk main as you can tell from his other videos on his channel. I had to push him to go on his astro in the vid I showed earlier. He says healing is scary with everything that goes on. Let me quote him " Yeah much respect goes out to healer mains. Seriously don't know how they do it. Monk is so much easier.. I just punch things. >.> "