Where are all the healers?

[Taika]

Healers have now a minimum DPS quota to meet. If each White Mage don't do at least 2,200 DPS on Omega, he is crap and therefore is kicked from the party. And if enrage kicks in, its the healer's fault. I saw some healers being kicked from groups like that because of this.And that while some DPS doesn't give a damn to the equips or rotations, stands on the crap and blames healer when he dies. Later they ask where are the healers!?

I have to say I've never experienced either of these scenarios, from the time I've raided as healer myself (from 1.0 dungeons and primals to AS12) or now as a DD in Omega (currently on OS4). But then again I don't do raids with pickups. I have done extremes with pickups, as a healer and a DD, in SB, and have never even seen anyone mention healer DPS.

But I do know some party finder groups tend to set unrealistic expectations to their members ("no mistakes allowed! 5k dps or kick!"), and seeing those is fairly common. I have also heard that pickup groups can get really nasty, although again I've never experienced that myself. For difficult content, it is understandable to set certain DPS expectations for all party members - since the instances have enrage timers and everyone has to pull their weight. But placing those expectations ridiculously high or placing the burden on only certain members of the party is of course just silly.

In short, to me, and in my experience, it really is about expecting healer players, like all the others, to simply try to be useful and not categorically refuse from using a part of their toolkit out of some silly principle. For difficult content, the expectations are naturally higher because of what the content itself requires from the party. There are always players who will expect even more than that from their party members, but we are all free to either choose to or choose not to play with them.

Edit: Sorry but I have to call BS on your WHM DPS expectations. That would make them rank 97% in OS1 and OS2, 98% in OS3, and 99% in OS4. xD It's definitely not a "standard" to expect your WHM to be in the top 1% in the world for DPS.