Quote Originally Posted by RowanLauron View Post
The entire point of healer dps, is to dps when you don't need to heal. May as well help to end a fight quicker, less healing overall needed and gives more wiggle room for dps errors if a mechanic messes up a dps rotation. There is no reason NOT to. HOWEVER, if you can't make enrage timers without healer dps, then you may need to reevaluate your damage dealers. If the game requires it, then it needs to be rebalanced. A raid kill should not REQUIRE healers to maximize dps in order to make a kill. Healer dps is a bonus to make the encounter faster, not to meet the minimum dps requirements.
Early clears require healer dps though.

It doesn't matter how good of a dps you are, take E4S for example, you need 74.5k dps to kill Titan assuming you get the slow instance and not the fast one.

74.5k dps divides out to:
14.5k for each dps
8.25k for each tank

At a 99th percentile only monk and black mage are able to attain numbers that high, and at the 99th percentile only Gunbreaker and Paladin are able to hit 8.25k dps, and that's WITH i470 raid gear and probably an i475 weapon. If you only have pentamelded gear there's no way in hell you're going to go much higher than 13k per dps job even on the two jobs I mentioned.

If you add healer dps into the mix and assume both healers need to do 5k dps each, the dps needed to clear becomes:
7.25k per tank
12.5k per dps
5k per healer

That lowers the dps requirements for tanks to only 60th percentile dps and only 60th-70th percentile for the top 3 dps jobs.


Also, if you still think that dps should just get good despite what I said and it still shouldn't be the healer's job to dps, let me ask you this:

Why would a group of 6 99th percentile damage dealers and tanks accept 2 healers who are too lazy to push 1 button during downtime into their group and willingly carry them through savage content?

Do you really think a group of highly motivated players who have mastered their respective classes almost to perfection would really want to have a lazy healer who can't be bothered to push a single button in their party?