Quote Originally Posted by MoroMurasaki View Post
Pure healers are less efficent than healers who DPS. Whether or not that makes them "bad" is so subjective there is no way to make a blanket statement about it for the whole community.
I had a rule back in Heavensward. If my co-healer didn't turn on Cleric during the pull, or at some point during the initial 10-15 seconds, I let them solo heal large portions of the fight. Why? Because the opening pull is where little to no damage goes out, allowing ample opportunity for dots, if nothing else. I also wanted to experiment just how good these pure healers were and more often than not, I was forced back into healing because they simply couldn't handle it. One time I actually got called out because "Cassandra's in her PvP gear, DPSing." This was A12N, in 3.5, and my co-healer was 260 with full accuracy melds yet never once touched a DPS spell or switched into Cleric despite my being 235-240 (Garo gear). I should have been the primary healer and intended to be, but they wouldn't DPS. So I let them handle just the first phase of Alex (before tank LB) and hopped in sporadically. He ran out of MP, something the DRK asked how when he complained because she's solo-healed that phase on WHM no problem.

Contrast this to when I met Hyomin in-game, who turned on Cleric quickly. I immediately switched to a cooperative role to allow her to DPS too. We had no issues whatsoever in the exact same fight.

Now I do want to emphasis this experiment of mine only applied to supposedly "experienced" healers. If my co-healer was new, I played more conservative since they're understandably not going to know the fight well. Likewise, if the DPS or Tanks did stupid things, I adapted. It still amused me just how poorly adaptable many pure healers are, or how many get angry if you let them handle healing like they apparently want. When they often cry about making it "stress free," it seems to be more "make it incredibly easy for me so I don't have to do more work." Perhaps I'm just jaded.