General Community Resistant to Healer Damage?

[Elladie]

I did a run of Stone Vigil yesterday on an alt, her first run through there. She is not badly geared (already has some basic AF) but is obviously not wearing Neo Ishgardian stuff. It was a nice group of folks too which was the biggest novelty for me since I've run that dungeon many times. I was on WHM and I ran out of MP at least twice on big pulls, managed to keep the tank up but I was literally spamming Cure/Cure 2 (cure first because I was praying for freecure to proc but I often needed to use Cure 2 with no freecure). Had Regen on too and used Lucid Dreaming always. If I got the chance to pop a DoT on, it was only at the end of the pull.

Was it stressful. No, but I know what I'm doing. Had I been the sprout that I appeared to be, it could have been very stressful. My point being, healers come in all shapes and sizes and unless they're actively sabotaging your run by sitting in a corner and refusing to move, leave them alone. Or kick them them if them not DPSing bothers you that much. Personally I think a DPS not DPSing is far more annoying and happens way more often - yes, ice mages, I'm looking at you - than healers focusing exclusively on heals or tanks doing small pulls

[ForteNightshade]

I did a run of Stone Vigil yesterday on an alt, her first run through there. She is not badly geared (already has some basic AF) but is obviously not wearing Neo Ishgardian stuff. It was a nice group of folks too which was the biggest novelty for me since I've run that dungeon many times. I was on WHM and I ran out of MP at least twice on big pulls, managed to keep the tank up but I was literally spamming Cure/Cure 2 (cure first because I was praying for freecure to proc but I often needed to use Cure 2 with no freecure). Had Regen on too and used Lucid Dreaming always. If I got the chance to pop a DoT on, it was only at the end of the pull.

Was it stressful. No, but I know what I'm doing. Had I been the sprout that I appeared to be, it could have been very stressful. My point being, healers come in all shapes and sizes and unless they're actively sabotaging your run by sitting in a corner and refusing to move, leave them alone. Or kick them them if them not DPSing bothers you that much. Personally I think a DPS not DPSing is far more annoying and happens way more often - yes, ice mages, I'm looking at you - than healers focusing exclusively on heals or tanks doing small pulls

Stone Vigil is a poor example because it being one of the early dungeons, massive pulls aren't as easily manageable. If you were in that same situation in say, Holminster Switch or Grand Cosmos, you'd be spamming Holy more than all your healing abilities combined.

Regardless, it isn't a competition on which role performing poorly is the worst. They're all bad. A DPS not AoEing is just as bad as a tank not popping cooldowns or a healer throwing out useless heals. The point remains none of it should be encouraged—and for the most part isn't. Healers are the only role, however, that often get an excuse. Hence the near constant argument.