DPS is the job of DPS.

[Xerek]

I give up.

Did you even read my post? The part where people saying healers shouldn't DPS are not advocating 15% healing, 85% standing around? The majority would rather have more *healing* to do.

An Ice Mage is a DPS who is not using all of his DPS abilities. That is completely different.

What if incoming damage was so brutal that all DPS classes were given a heal ability or two...then expected to use it the majority of the time? Where they could only DPS a little, and if they weren't healing all the time people would yell at them? Would that feel right? Wouldn't there be yells that DPS should be DPSing? Cries of "If I wanted to heal, I'd have picked healer!", screams about lazy DPS who refuse to heal. If DPS were suddenly pressured into healing 75+% of the time I think there would suddenly be a lot more empathy. Or would all you DPS be perfectly happy being pushed into a healing role?

[Jijifli]

An Ice Mage is a DPS who is not using all of his DPS abilities. That is completely different.

A White Mage pressing only Cure II is a healer not using all of their healing abilities. That is the same.

What if incoming damage was so brutal that all DPS classes were given a heal ability or two...then expected to use it the majority of the time? Where they could only DPS a little, and if they weren't healing all the time people would yell at them? Would that feel right? Wouldn't there be yells that DPS should be DPSing? Cries of "If I wanted to heal, I'd have picked healer!", screams about lazy DPS who refuse to heal. If DPS were suddenly pressured into healing 75+% of the time I think there would suddenly be a lot more empathy. Or would all you DPS be perfectly happy being pushed into a healing role?

>Stares at RDM and PLD

I didn't have a healer leveling my PLD. And half the time in RDM's case, we didn't have a healer either. They were too busy doing Cure II on themselves instead of the tank because clearly that's difficult. Also, the amount of times I see a RDM get screamed at for Vercure and Verraise, even when they're under the levels for them, is quite high. If we have an expectation of a dps to use their kit, we should have an expectation for others to too.

Why is it fair for a healer and tank to get lazy? If tanks and healers are doing the bare minimum it's okay, but in your own example, a BLM do bare minimum isn't. After all, Ice Mage is still doing their job, to dps right?