Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Bourne_Endeavor]

If you want to help those healers get better at the game and pushing themselves more and more, try to help them by being patient and telling them about healers, who can help them to get better. Don't try it yourself or tell them "healing is heasy, just use cure II all the time, because it heals more. I am a tank and know what i am doing", for instance. There are to many people, despite only about 23%* of people playing healer (most of them not at the hightest level imo) telling healers what do, when they should do it and telling them not doing dmg is the bare minimum. And stop telling them main- /off heal is good. It is not

To be fair, no one is arguing inexperienced healers need to "test their limits." There's a significant difference between dealing some damage and none whatsoever. That being said, if you're entirely new to a fight, say so. People are far more forgiving when they're forewarned by another player's inexperience and may even offer some advice. We're also not talking about those healers but the ones who actively won't try to improve or refuse to DPS on some sort of silly principle.

The difference is that nobody is going to argue that DPS players doing terrible DPS is acceptable. We all know they're out there, and they don't last in statics. In DF, there is little you can do about them without risking opening yourself up to punishment by talking about parsers.

The trick is that they're not controversial and won't get anyone to defend them doing terrible DPS, so no thread on the subject has legs. Contrast that to how long this thread has gone and how there's always someone willing to defend the "pure healer". That's how you get incredibly long threads that just won't stay dead.

Case in point, a Red Mage brought up not wanting to AoE because she felt more satisfied using single target spells. Every single response could basically be summed up as, "Yeah, no."