If you thought the healer DPS debate would change with the change...

[Shurrikhan]

Someone didn't even bother reading before making a toxic reply.

If you did bother to read, then you would have understood that the OP isn't dpsing because they are HEALING. You know, their JOB? They aren't being idle.

That I read a false dilemma does not require me to believe it or respond to its every point. But let me clarify, then, since you seem not to have healed yet this expansion.

There is no need to "focus" on healing to an extent that would at all fetter your ability to spend some globals dealing damage between heals, nor does damage require any attention that would draw away from healing. This aspect of difficulty quite simply no longer exists to any noticeable amount.

If the OP is being called out, as per their words, for not dealing damage, they're idling or overhealing. There would be no discussion among the OP's group if there wasn't something visible -- and obviously so -- in their actions. You can idle or be very obviously overhealing; that is literally all anyone can see and the only things that would indicate to anyone that you're "not dealing damage."

Your modern dps rotation is "spam [1] for ST" or "spam [2] for AoE". Every 21/30 seconds, hit [3] instead and you get to double-weave without uptime cost as a bonus. There is no point at which that distracts you from healing. There is no conflict of attention, now more than ever.

The removal of healer DPS skills only made it easier to spend fewer globals on anything but damage. You have both a simplified (read: nigh-autonomous) rotation and no longer have any ability to overly invest in damage-dealing via shared resources; all abilities save Assize are now purely for healing, while Assize is likewise still almost always used as a pure heal (again, to save GCDs so you can spend them dealing damage).

tl;dr: I can read about their abnormal difficulties without accepting them as necessarily true of all players or making light of players being expected to do what they can whatever their role, rather than drawing the line from their role titles. To anyone who's played a healer at all decently this expansion, short of perhaps intentional griefing on the part of their tank and dps, the post amounts solely to a roundabout and incongruous jab at role-flexibility -- a one liner. So, yes, I'll respond accordingly.

"Even with the removal of a large chunk of the healer DPS spells and abilities, the player community is still demanding, not asking, demanding that healers still DPS" is the thesis line in keeping with the title, whatever the little anecdotes attached, and the response to that should be along the lines of "Well, of course." Just like Cleric Stance before, the changes are there to facilitate healer dps. When something is facilitated, expect it to become more, not less, expected.