Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Penthea]

If it is acceptable for a healer to do 0 DPS since DPS is not their job then automatically a tank doing 0 DPS must be acceptable as well since DPS isn't their job either. Only DPS jobs have to DPS. I realize PLD is the only tank that can actually do this while keeping hate in dungeons since Flash does 0 DPS, but it still means that if you believe that healers are okay to do 0 DPS then you cannot have an issue with a PLD doing 0 DPS either because like I said double standards and hypocrisy.

I feel this is a very poor comparison to make because dps does directly help tanks to maintain threat but dps doesn't directly help healers. Yes dps can indirectly help with healing because things die faster, but its relationship with healing isn't as close as it is with tanks. Healers doing dps doesn't make healing numbers pop up elsewhere, tanks doing dps actually adds to their threat generation. The responsibilities of tanks and healers are quite similar in some ways, but the way they perform their roles in this context is far too different for this comparison to make any real sense.

I mean you may as well start arguing that dps as bad as non-dpsing healers are the kind who only move out of telegraphs that render a dps loss either by killing them or debuffing them, and otherwise don't move at all because their role is to do damage, not mitigate it.

Why is it so hard for people to say "Tanks and dps don't stand around doing nothing while mobs are alive, so healers shouldn't either"? :P

Yea I get that many think some healers cannot grasp the above, well honestly I think they all eventually do but some choose to be lazy instead. Lazy players exist in every role, and a healer not dpsing is how it often happens among healers. Threads like this won't suddenly inspire these healers to do more. But kicking them for it would.