Healer & Tank DPS (WoW vs FFXIV)

[Cenerae]

I get complimented by tanks all the time because I heal and rarely dps. I do my best to keep everyone alive because I realize that DPS can out dps me for the most part. (I'm a WHM). If I have time, I'll toss out some DPS, but never at the expense of another player in the group. Letting others die because I'm going Holy Happy is just silly to me.

I don't think anyone in the thread has been claiming that you're supposed to DPS at the expense of doing your actual job. People that do that are stupid.

[Thoro39]

I don't think anyone in the thread has been claiming that you're supposed to DPS at the expense of doing your actual job. People that do that are stupid.

Exactly, her argument is a pretty moot and useless one. No one sane is arguing that a healer should abandon their healing duties for more DPS. Absolutely no one.

Love healers like you. I can go full DPS for the boss fights and just use the cooldowns for tank busters. Trash, yea I'm in deliverance for the IB mitigation so I don't have to blow cooldowns.

You should use your cooldowns on dungeon trash, because for the most part, Dungeon Trash hit for more damage than the Dungeon Bosses. Especially if you are a warrior with short defensive cooldown timers, your CD's will be ready by the next trash/dungeonboss if you use them early. Everytime vengeance sits unused for 2 minutes, you wasted a whole vengeance usage. The same applies for any cooldown.
Don't be an unnecessarily squishy Tank for 80% of the whole dungeon, just because you think you have to save your CD's exclusively for the other 20%, the bosses.

[Zarabeth]

I don't think anyone in the thread has been claiming that you're supposed to DPS at the expense of doing your actual job. People that do that are stupid.

I didn't say they did nor am I calling anyone stupid, that's unkind. I simply stated how I do things in reply to another post.