Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
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.
Would you argue that SCH and Noct AST only have to use their direct healing moves then? And WHM should never use Divine Bension. These shields are mitigation, same as healer DPS. I have a hard time separating the two but I do feel that if a DPSing healer and a lazy non-DPSing healer ran the same group through the same dungeon the overall incoming danage in the DPSing healer's group would be considerably less, especially on WHM where an amazing Stun just happens to be built into our AoE DPS.

So where is the line? Do we play to the best intetests of our party and mitigate through shields and DPS or let the damage roll in just because we have the potency to heal it anyways?