Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Miste]

This what I find hilarious about this thread.

If a healer dares to suggest that maybe the roulettes aren't the place to mentor people, and that perhaps we should just leave healers in the roulettes alone, they get called below average and treated as such.

Uh...no? It is just a fact based on game design that ignoring parts of your toolkit puts you into the average to below average category. It isn't meant to be a put down, it is just a fact about how the game works.

Like if I was a MNK who only used one of my combo sets and not the other, didn't do positionals properly, and didn't know how to use AoE for big pulls...then if I don't like the fact that I am playing below average based on game design then I have the power to fix it by learning to use the things I am currently not using properly or the things I am not using at all that boost my contribution and in turn make me a better MNK.

Suggest it if you want, but you don't exactly have the right to tell others "you aren't allowed to give advice in DF because I say so" or "you have to leave them alone because I say so" so the suggestion kind of doesn't go anywhere.

Oh and before someone latches onto this to flip it around.....no one in here has ever said "you have to DPS on healer because I said so". So don't even bother. All we have been doing is talking about the facts about healer gameplay and why it should be encouraged for healers to contribute DPS and that refusing to do it for really bad excuses like "I am a healer I only have to heal" or "it's my sub I play how I want" might not be accepted by some of the groups you may get in DF.

Also...you cannot expect to be "left alone" in a MMO where you are joining a group that has to complete content together in a cooperative style. In general if you never want anyone to possibly say something about how you are playing, ever, then playing a MMO seems counter productive...either that or you might as well just turn your chat box off during DF. You might end up kicked sometimes though if you completely ignore your party.