Healer DPS or no?

[Moogly]

Well I'll give my little opinion on that too...

What is the dev team position on that ?
They don't really like it. They don't mind players doing it, but they firmly believe it shouldn't be mandatory to clear any content, even savage. Now did they tune the content's difficulty accordingly ? That is up to anyone to appreciate.
They tuned the SB dungeons so as people don't mass pull rush them (not very effective...)
They changed the cleric stance mechanism - so as to make dps easier for pure healers who'd like to try DPSing, and reward those who were already skilled at stance dancing with a damage bonus.
But they made it clear that healers are not expected to DPS.
With that said, no way you can criticize a player for not doing any DPS at all and just heal, heal and overheal you and the deeps.

What is most of the community position ?
Performance, efficiency, speed. So healer better DPS.
Emulation. The best guilds healers DPS, so healers must DPS.
In DF, may be 1 tank out of 20 will complain if a healer dps - usually if he dies because healer was hooked on dps... But I think it's even 1 out of 50, or even 100 - what most tanks care for, is just that the healer keeps them alive. As for a tank complaining of a healer doing zero dps, I haven't seen that more than maybe 2 or 3 times.
In raids, it usually happens after a couple wipe, when people start checking parsers...
So although there's a common consent that healers should dps, I guess the community is pretty lenient when one doesnt dps - just keep me alive.

I personnaly love dps - if not casting a heal, I'm casting a dps spell - and I just cant stop casting... messed up and wiped many, many times... sorry tank pals
As a tank... well like most people here, I honestly don't care, just keep me alive and lets get through with that roulette... same thing in raids. And if I die because healer messed up... like I said above, sh*t happens...
But I think it is wrong to call on a healer to do DPS on normal content. It is even worse to tell him he's not playing his class right or efficiently - that he's not good at it and that he should quit healing - that is utterly wrong.
Same thing cannot be said about savage content though.
A healer only healing on normal content is doing his job right. He could do more ? Yes, definitely. But he could, not he should.