Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Eh no, I don't want to have to deal with the drama created when some idiot DPSer starts harassing someone else in the party because they aren't up to their "standards" - more out of concern for my fellow player than myself, really.

No offense, but welcome to the Internet. You're going to get jerks in your party. Report and/or kick them. Telling an idle healer who is clearly not new to maybe DPS or, you know, not stand still, isn't "harassment" anymore than telling a tank "Could you use something more than Shield Oath?" What irks many people is we'll accept such criticism towards tanks without a second thought yet healers get coddled because their feelings might get hurt. Why isn't any other role afforded that?

The number of DPS that this has been an issue with (from my experience), shows that expecting the DPS to do that is only going to lead to increased healing load on the healer.

Unless the DPS are completely useless, big pulls are still faster. Per my example, I had myself on tank, an Astro and a Summoner and things were still dying extremely fast given the handicap.

Then why are you, and several others, calling me a "bad healer" and attempting to tell me stuff I already know about WHM?

I can't speak for anyone else, however when I said "you" I meant in general terms.

Again, if all of the WHM quests were healing centric... wouldn't that get kinda boring?

Depends on how they were written. You can tell a compelling narrative and have us heal NPCs. Even if a few more quests focused on healing that might help, but one, one White Mage quest actually requires you to keep anyone else. You're basically a DPS otherwise.

You know, if you had said something more clever, like:

Follow the ABCs of WHM: Always Be Casting

That remark might have been a bit more to the point....

Okay? Since you follow that stance, or at least claim to, what's the hold up? Call me crazy but healers at max level should have learned their ABCs ages ago yet you've spent the last several pages trying to give them a pass. Yes, it's Expert Roulette but that doesn't change the debate since a good number of those healers move onto other content. Not very many of us will "call them out" per se. That doesn't mean we won't discuss it on a, well, discussion forum. If someone reads this thread and uses it to justify harassment, they were just looking for an excuse to be a jerk. That has no bearing on us or our opinions.