Where are all the healers?

[Ghishlain]

I think you answer your own question here. Because otherwise, healers will simply be contributing much less than DDs and tanks, and when the group gets more geared / experienced, that gap will only grow wider. What I'm asking is, why should one (or two) party member(s) be allowed to contribute a lot less than the others?

Because I believe that in team content everyone should do their best to carry their weight instead of doing the bare minimum and let the others do all the heavy lifting.

Unfortunately, we aren't the gaming police or the developers. Healers having a lower threshold of required activity doesn't mean they're playing badly. It just means their sub optimal as all get out.

As like you, I do believe in doing more in team content but not everyone has to follow the same as we do. It doesn't mean no-DPS healers are wrong either. There is a wide range of what would be deemed as acceptable but if the developers feel "20% uptime from healers" is the acceptable with them, who are we to tell others players they're "terrible" for not adhering to our own personal standards but still adhere to the standards provided by the developers themselves? That's all I'm getting at.

I'm not saying you are disrespectful to the no-DPS healers, but there have been a fair number of negative comments from both sides of the coin to make me scratch my head, throw my arms up, and walk away from the issue and aggravations associated with it, lol.

I'm actually very surprised I'm putting as much time into this discussion as I am right now >>; I'm actually waiting for a random person to tell me "Get out you no-DPS healer" because of the position I'm siding with despite my enjoyment at playing at high levels of optimization.

I don't know, I think these discussions offer plenty of context and reasons for why healers should be DPSing if you read more of them than selected one-liners.

It's a shame that the one-liners are the ones some people put the most effort into and also the easiest to digest too. One-liners are obviously effective because look at the clickbait titles we get. Those are all one liners and they tend to generate the most volume of responses.

I do appreciate the civil discussion we're having since civility seems rare at times but not everyone wants to wade through the walls-of-text we're bringing forward too, which is sadly where the one-liners capitalize on.