Why not own this fixation on DPS?

[Veis_Alveare]

I don't think healers are expected to do as much dps as possible. I think it is expected that healers don't stand around doing nothing when noone needs healing.

Those are the same thing.

Unless rather than casting a damage spell you want to cast a healing spell when people are at full health which... just doesn't make any sense.

[SleepyNeko]

Those are the same thing.

Unless rather than casting a damage spell you want to cast a healing spell when people are at full health which... just doesn't make any sense.

No they are not the same thing, I'm referring to the most common complaint about healers is that they are standing around doing nothing - meaning they are not healing or dpsing and just waiting for the tank's health to drop and health again.

My comment is saying that there is a difference from expecting MAX dps from healers (from the OP's first comment) to expecting at least some effort into using your dps skills. My point being that I don't expect perfect dps rotation and uptime from a healer, but I expect them to do some dps when they are doing nothing else.