Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Jollyy5]

Jolly : And how does healing take all the healer's concentration if there is nothing to heal?
May be you are able to make a split decision in less than a tenth of a second...

I'm pretty sure that's a perfect example of reading between the lines/only seeing what you want to see, because the quote continues with: "If they completely freeze for a solid 10 seconds to do nothing?"

Ten seconds, my friend... Ten seconds, not tenth of a second.

And my point of view has little to do with this, let me get my good friend Master of Magic here and see what she thinks:


That's pretty much it in a nutshell, and that's all I'm asking.

[Moogly]

Ten seconds, my friend... Ten seconds, not tenth of a second.

Yes, even ten seconds ! 4 whole GCD !
Easy example : my first run of brayflox : I was equipped with aetherial/vendor gear, haven't yet gotten the full mage set that drops there.
After the first wipe on the last boss, I spent zero time DPSing... because I ran out of mana DPSing on the first try, causing the wipe.
And that meant sometimes spending quite some time, 10 sec or more, doing absolutely nothing : just waiting for my mana to resplenish.
Looking back now, having esuna, SoS mastered, I do feel that I really sucked back then... even tried running a second WHM (Zaza Hya) just to see how I would do in the same conditions, just for the fun.
But after that first clear, I was really feeling satisfied, and really felt I did do my job the best I could... when I now know for sure I could've definitely done better...
But what if someone in the group told me I couldve contributed to DPS to make things go down faster ?
Though I wouldnt, others would've simply quit healing.

The problem with the way you are presenting things, is that you dont seem to really make a difference between begginers and leechers.
Some of you get offended when called elitists : same thing for beginners. Don't accuse newbies of systematically being bad, when they actually give their best.