Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Penthea]

Actually, they won't. I can hold hate without even keeping my tank stance on, though it can get dicing trying that. Abyssal Drain, Overpower and Flash generate enough aggro even good DPS won't pull if you spammed them. A tank who does this is equally as bad as a healer not DPSing

No they're not. I agree healers should dps if they're able to, but that behaviour is absolutely not the same as a healer not dpsing. What you describe is a player who deliberately doesn't use some of his kit designed for his primary role, which is more like a healer who only does single target heals and refuses to do any aoe healing.

A healer not dpsing is more like a tank who makes no effort to actually kill anything even though he has already very much established aggro and is well able to help, but he (for whatever reason) chooses to just needlessly continue to generate aggro. Both are examples of players who wish to remain doing nothing but their primary role. However due to the nature of healing, it is more obvious when a healer doesn't dps than it is when a tank only tanks because tanks are hitting mobs anyway. Damage is a side effect of their primary role. Also because you can see cast bars for healers so you can actually see a lot of what they're doing on the party ui, and well tanks don't exactly have a lot of cast bars :P