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

[HyoMinPark]

Same here, hardly see anything aside "Hello/GG TY". Though, I should probably notice here that OP is from NA data center while you (and me) are from EU. And... ahem-akhem, let's be frankly here: European community is quite calm in general though we have our toxic personalities, too ofc. Maybe that's due to big language diversity so people just shy to write in chat in bad English, but it is what it is.

Reporting from Aether — I haven’t seen any instances of griefing over this. Most people say “hello” at the start, and “thank you” at the end, and that’s about it.

You are wrong here, because main game developer himself said they design encounters specifically in mind of healer to not do any DPS at all, and they do not expect healers to dps.

Yoshida has also recently said that he does not think healers should not NOT contribute to damage. At the end of the day, however, it doesn’t matter what Yoshida says. The community dictates the playstyle. However, if we want to go by the developers dictating the playstyle, well, healer NPCs DPS. And the Healer Hall of Novice states that healers should toss out offensive magic when they aren’t having to heal.

At this rate Id laugh if they potentially "lock" dps actions for healers when entering any dungeons. It would certainly put a stop to players trying to force healers to dps

You’d also see a lot less people playing healers. If I want to be AFK for 80% of something, well, I might as well not even do it at that point. Being locked out of actively contributing outside of a cast every half a minute isn’t my idea of fun. I prefer to always be casting instead of waiting for people to take damage.