Quote Originally Posted by ArcanoJones View Post
As long as a healer is doing their job and nobody is dying ..especially the Tank and the group is beating all the content. Then anybody who actually gives the healer a hard time is completelly wrong. Healers do not need to DPS. If they get time to it is at their option. IN fact Healers trying to do damage is why groups will wipe and problems will arise sometimes because they either run out of Mana or they are not paying attention to their healing duties.
You're preaching to the choir, but it still happens.

This is one of the more polite examples I've seen:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-who-don-t-DPS

Either way, the way damage happens in this game is ultimately responsible for this situation. If healers were always (or nearly always) using their mana to heal, no one would even consider suggesting they DPS.