Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
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.