Quote Originally Posted by Feidam View Post
And you kind of just proved my point, with a very strong reaction to someone mentioning the other side. In my experience the number of people that just stand around and the number who tunnel vision are about equal. And both sides want to protect their precious stand point. The middle where most folks are understand that to fully utilize the kit is a more successful use of the groups time. Of course there is various levels of success per individual player skill. But what is asinine is to ignore the other aspect where healers favor dps more than tossing a heal and someone dies. Not just the occasional death either, but some of the healers let it happen consistently. Happens more than you are willing to admit it seems. And quite frankly neither side should speak from a position of authority on the matter.

And someone who stands around and heals only isn’t refusing to play their role assuming everyone stays alive. They are playing suboptimally though.

I also do understand healer anxiety and all that, but I do struggle with why folks just want to just stand around and not slowly adapt. Seems boring. Oh well, like you said it is their dime.
Perhaps I worded my original reply badly. There is one claim (that you didn't make, but I've read it a lot on these forums) that I flatly disagree with 1000%. That claim is something like "healers who only heal are better/more skilled at the role than those dirty damage dealers", which is laughably, completely, demonstrably untrue from basically any angle you could possibly approach it.