Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
And that's exactly the attitude that creates this idiotic feedback loop of "healers have lots of downtime, healers are lazy, healers should dps more" -> "why u let me die?"

Ever get a tank with minimum ilevel gear? They die in two hits. If you're trying to speed things along by not healing the tank every 3 seconds, that guy is going to die, and then blame you. Even worse, is when these guys try to do a big pull and die in one hit.
Only in some people's mind. People creating this feedback loop seem to have a hard time with the concept of priorities. If your tank is dying that fast, you'll be so busy healing him that you'll be active almost all the time. Thus, you're busy contributing to group success and not standing around doing nothing, which is fine.

"Tank in Shire doing double pulls in Bardam's mettle" is not even remotely the same situation as "tank in Savage gear in Kugane Castle", because in one of those you're healing constantly and in the other Regen can cover most of the healing while you've got nothing else to do, so why not toss some rocks?

The order has never been "ignore healing to DPS more". It's "don't stand around doing nothing waiting for something to heal, use that time to DPS."