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

[Alphras]

First of if your group expects you to dps, you are expected to dps. That's it. Discussions on the healer forums don't help to change this expectation.

In this game you have alot of downtime as healer a in regards to your global cooldowns (I would say up to 80% in the current extreme trials, or up to 100% with a static). You have two options to fill this downtime.
1. Do damage
2. Do nothing

At the end of the day, dps (combined healer dps mind you) is a measurement of how well you are healing.

They are not required to dps.
Give it just 1 second to listen to this guy (interviewer).

https://youtu.be/5la_nyC5BO0?t=281

Yoshi P is our boss of the bosses, what do you need more than his words itself?
Its just that and only that, just because NPC deal damage from time to time does not mean the whole game balance is based on it.
Heck our game got even a rebalance patch where healers lost one of their DPS skill, and tanks got squisher to enforce healers to heal more, it clearly moved towards healers to heal more, you could see it clearly in fflogs where SCH and AST are dealing relatively a lot less dps than they used to.

Healers are not required to dps, fin, fim, finito, ende, koniec.

His opinion doesn't really matter in this discussion at all if the game isn't designed to reflect it.