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

[Zephanoa]

Hmm I am not wondering if the title is a bit misleading. No one knows if it will be "Lax" or not yet. Not even those who had media tour exposure. From the perspective of someone who heals sometimes I never feel like I need to DPS to keep myself busy (unless its SCH pre-50, lucky d00ds.) It's all about comfort, and shouldn't be about expectation in my eyes.

[Acidblood]

Hmm I am not wondering if the title is a bit misleading. No one knows if it will be "Lax" or not yet. Not even those who had media tour exposure. From the perspective of someone who heals sometimes I never feel like I need to DPS to keep myself busy (unless its SCH pre-50, lucky d00ds.) It's all about comfort, and shouldn't be about expectation in my eyes.

The problem is that, even if it doesn't start out being easy (can we please get some dungeons that aren't already 30 ilvls behind on day-1?), just by the nature of vertical gear progression, and the total lack of supplementary mechanics such as crowd control, that is where the difficultly level is always going to end up.... and as such, simply by the nature of healing (and to a lesser extent tanking), as the difficulty lowers, players in those roles are going to be forced to chase an alternative playstyle as a means to being challenged (i.e. maximising DPS).