Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Nhisso]

Dear tanks that don't pop CDs, you suck
Dear DPS that don't AoE, you suck
Dear Healers that don't DPS, you suck.

/thread.

Yeah, but no.
Healers wasting mana on DPS EVERY time they arent healing are bad.
Im so sick of neckbeards crying about not being able to speed run every thing. We get it. You want to speed through content and get cool gear so noobs ask where you got it; and then complain about being bored because youve done every dungeon/raid/trial 15000 times.

[RuleofThree]

I just give up trying, honestly. Last night I DPS'd the shit out of a dungeon, and still got told I suck ass for not dpsing. The morale of this eternal argument: You can't win. You will always suck. Stop trying to please others.

[Archamgel]

Yeah, but no.
Healers wasting mana on DPS EVERY time they arent healing are bad.

Yeah, no. Sitting on full MP (because unless you are overhealing or not using any refresh skills, that is exactly what will happen) is wasting MP and is the sign of a bad healer. Even solo healing savages with PF groups allows me time to dps and run no risk of going oom.

[Miste]

Healers wasting mana on DPS EVERY time they arent healing are bad.

So... I do DPS when I don't have to heal.

By your logic I am bad right?

Why am I able to clear savage raids on healer?

I DPS when I don't need to heal in all content...I keep everyone alive and I DPS and we clear just fine. How can I do this if I am bad?

Something really doesn't make sense about what you are claiming here :/

[Penthea]

Reading through some of the posts here...it seems some people need to realise that healer dps is a byproduct of the rest of the team playing well.

Of course encounter design comes into it but if a healer ends up with a group that is prone to taking avoidable damage, if they don't have loads of mana to spare they sometimes do intentionally lower their dps to make sure they have the resources they need when something goes wrong.

If a player very frequently ends up with healers who never dps, then maybe they should take a good look at themselves. Maybe they're not putting the healer in a position to safely do a lot of dps.

A healer's first job is to heal. The rest comes after.

[HoodRat]

Reading through some of the posts here...it seems some people need to realise that healer dps is a byproduct of the rest of the team playing well.

Of course encounter design comes into it but if a healer ends up with a group that is prone to taking avoidable damage, if they don't have loads of mana to spare they sometimes do intentionally lower their dps to make sure they have the resources they need when something goes wrong.

If a player very frequently ends up with healers who never dps, then maybe they should take a good look at themselves. Maybe they're not putting the healer in a position to safely do a lot of dps.

A healer's first job is to heal. The rest comes after.

The problem isn't that healers aren't dpsing...it's when they're doing nothing instead of dpsing (which I notice frequently when I get random healers in df). No one is saying they should dps at the cost of healing when healing is needed. I'm not sure where people keep getting this from. Even the people who are pro healer dps say that healers' first priority is to heal.

[Deceptus]

The problem isn't that healers aren't dpsing...it's when they're doing nothing instead of dpsing . . . I'm not sure where people keep getting this from.

They want to justify laziness.