The Healer Double Standard

[Yuyuka3]

There's no point in debating healers who like to push DPS vs healers who prefer to focus on healing. It's evenly split in this regard.

The bottom line is we are playing FFXIV and the healer role is intended by the team who makes this game to focus on healing with some scant DPS skills tossed in. As we can see from the upcoming expansion and decisions made for healing classes, that is still the case.

If anyone is playing the role wrong, it's healers who think pushing their minut DPS is a priority. RDM might be a better fit for this type of player rather than complaining about a role designed in a way they don't like. It is what it is.

lol.
Are you serious? First of, what am I supposed to do when nobody needs heeling, standing around with my thumb up my ass? Watching Netflix? Sorry, I'll rather quit playing and do something more interesting with my time, thank you very much. And it's not like I love DPSing so much; I would gladly spam heals exclusively if the situation afforded it. Sadly, unless goes horribly, horribly wrong, that's never the case. So, without any other way to support my party, what, in your eyes, am I supposed to with my time?

Also, anyone thinking healer DPS contribution is so little it doesn't matter must be drunk or high. Last time I healed Savage, my co-healer and I combined dealt more damage than the weakest DPS (who was, granted, new to the fight and undergeared; still 14% damage contribution is nothing to scoff at and we would still have dealt DPS-level damage together had he been level with everyone else). Any healer duo worth their money can pull that off, so saying healer DPS doesn't matter is laughably short-sighted and implies a pretty deep lack of understanding of how the game works.

There are people who have no issues healing, but prefer not to be sitting around on our hands waiting for enough damage to be taken to justify a heal. The fact that SE seems incapable of making healing exciting (The closest we have to a healer combo is the Cure procs, and are those even in anymore?) and unwilling to make healer DPS exciting (See - Everything that has been mentioned). The fact that WHM actually has a DPS skill that builds off heals seems like a step in the right direction, but it came at the cost of the other two healers losing so much and not really getting a lot back of value for it in regards to interesting options for downtime.

Cure procs still, nominally, exist... but what WHM with a shred of self-esteem ever sees one? Maybe one who had to raise so many people he ran OOM, and could cast nothing but Cure I... and even then, I personally prefer to DPS.