Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Gunnie]

Exactly. It's that kind of elitist douchebaggery that is putting potentially good healers off. "Be considerate" ... >_>

What I don't seem to get is why people want to play with half of their toolkit and just go afk until someone needs a heal again. I won't complain if a healer does not DPS, not worth the hassle. But I cannot fathom why someone does not want to play at their best potential.

[Kabooa]

What I don't seem to get is why people want to play with half of their toolkit and just go afk until someone needs a heal again. I won't complain if a healer does not DPS, not worth the hassle. But I cannot fathom why someone does not want to play at their best potential.

Hey man.

Sometimes you're just feeling lazy.

[Deceptus]

Hey man.

Sometimes you're just feeling lazy.

And in no other job would anyone find this acceptable. Tank doesn't want to use every GCD available, terrible tank. DPS doesn't want to use every GCD available, terrible dps.

Healers shouldn't get a pass on this.

[C-croft]

And in no other job would anyone find this acceptable. Tank doesn't want to use every GCD available, terrible tank. DPS doesn't want to use every GCD available, terrible dps.

Healers shouldn't get a pass on this.

While I agree, this happens all the time.... It's just easier to notice on a healer vs. others.

I still think that if the healer has too much idle time, you need to be pulling more things.

[Gunnie]

While I agree, this happens all the time.... It's just easier to notice on a healer vs. others.

I still think that if the healer has too much idle time, you need to be pulling more things.

Dungeons are gated to some extend. This is not always possible.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

While I agree, this happens all the time.... It's just easier to notice on a healer vs. others.

I still think that if the healer has too much idle time, you need to be pulling more things.

Many of the pure healer crowd can't actually handle the extra workload. Back in Heavensward, I had a general rule if my co-healer didn't start with Cleric on, I defaulted to DPS mode and only bounced in when necessary. Why? If they weren't going to DPS during the opening phase, where minimal damage goes out, I didn't expect they would period. I also wanted to experiment with just how many pure healers were actually good since that was often the go to defense around here. Turns out a good many weren't. Despite healing being their only responsibility, they couldn't adapt. Had one even try lecturing me on stance dancing after I left him to handle A12N just until adds came up and buckled quickly. Ironically, he was fully ACC melded and should have been the one DPSing, not me.

[Xehmnus]

What I don't seem to get is why people want to play with half of their toolkit and just go afk until someone needs a heal again. I won't complain if a healer does not DPS, not worth the hassle. But I cannot fathom why someone does not want to play at their best potential.

Thinking about it, I feel like some of these people, outside of being pure lazy, just don't care. Been seeing some people playing tanks who clearly don't know what they're doing, and when given advice say they don't really care cause they're only playing the tank for the queue. Doesn't happen too often, but it's a drag when it does. I wonder if some people are doing the same thing with healers.