Healer DPS or no?

[Freyyy]

and if you DPS, you may lack MP to pull some massive heals/raises if hings go south.

If DPSing makes you so low on MP then you're doing something wrong. The only thing that can make a healer go OoM is raising people multiple times in a very short time.

[AlexionSkylark]

If DPSing makes you so low on MP then you're doing something wrong. The only thing that can make a healer go OoM is raising people multiple times in a very short time.

But that's exactly my point. If you are conservative about your MP you CAN pull that kind of thing you described. If you're like halved, probably not.
I'm talking about "when things go south", not normal situations.

[Freyyy]

But that's exactly my point. If you are conservative about your MP you CAN pull that kind of thing you described. If you're like halved, probably not.
I'm talking about "when things go south", not normal situations.

But things shouldn't go south, especially in dungeons. And if it does, you won't wipe because the healer used its MP on DPS and couldn't raise everyone, you wipe because everyone else fucked up and died in the first place, so it's non-issue.

[Umbrak]

If DPSing makes you so low on MP then you're doing something wrong. The only thing that can make a healer go OoM is raising people multiple times in a very short time.

Well, you can pretty much go OOM if you (brain afk ) AOE like mad.
But with one eye on your MP you can still do decent damage and heal enough.

If you stop to DPS for some manaregen or pop a manaregen CD, i doubt that anyone will yell at you.

But... isn't this Topic going out of hand in a way?
The threadstarter said it's all said and done?