To the DPS META and please be reasonable with arguments

[Sylve]

explain why it is their job

Wait ... What? My job is to refill the blue bars in my party list.

You want me to do my own Job while also doing the job of the two individuals in the party whose express purpose is dealing damage?
Correct me if I'm wrong here, But isn't the reason for DD jobs existing is handle the DPS aspect of party play?

Basic/Standard play for Tanks is using Enmity combos to maintain enmity while utilizing various Job skills to reduce incoming damage.
Advanced play for tanks is making use of non Enmity skills and abilities to maximize damage output while maintaining mitigation and enmity.

Basic/Standard play for Healers is using the various Healing skills to keep the party alive and utilizing various Job skills to affect the party in a beneficial manner (AST card buffs, Selene speed buff etc).
Advanced play for Healers is utilizing non healing skills for dealing damage or causing more damage to be dealt to the target in general while maintaining the health of the party.

Basic/Standard play for Damage Dealers is to execute a rotation of core damaging skills to deal damage.
Advanced play for Damage Dealers is to ... Execute a rotation of core damaging skills to deal damage.


For people to boot a Healer in standard content for the crime of playing at a standard level is ridiculous.
You know what would help in getting Healers comfortable with DPSing while Healing? Not pulling entire rooms at once during the leveling process. Introduce the Healer to the concept of helping out with damage when no one needs healing.
Do it politely and give calm reasoning as to why its beneficial for them to do so. Get them into the habit of applying damage skills in an environment where a mistake wont automatically kill the party.

But that requires interaction with the party and might slow down the run from 20 minutes to 21 minutes.
And as we know, We just can't stand being in that dungeon we queued up for even one second longer than absolutely necessary as defined arbitrarily by 4 different players at once.

-_-

TL;DR, Teach people how to go the extra mile with calm instruction.

+1, no one annoys healers to just dps in a basic way. What we hate is to see someone acting like speaking on facebook or watching a movie on his second screen while others are carrying him using the argument of being healer.

This reasoning always amuses the hell out of me.
If the healer stopped performing their basic job, Your run stops dead.

So who, really, is carrying whom?