Quote Originally Posted by Jazmyn View Post
So glad you decided you know the game better than Yoshi P. Here is his answer
A.) First of all, we do not expect healers to contribute to DPS. However we know a lot of the cutting edge players enjoy this aspect about the job and that those progressing in the raids early on use it help clear the fights. We decided to make it so that the idea was more approachable and less punishing so that if a player wants to try it, they aren’t sacrificing all of their healing capabilities to do so like they were with the old Cleric Stance. We didn’t like seeing healers doing entire dungeons in Cleric Stance, especially if they forget to switch back and heal!

That being said, and I want you to really reinforce this to your viewers, I firmly believe it shouldn’t be mandatory and we do NOT have the expectation of them to DPS.
Whatever the devs have *said* is entirely irrelevant. What matters is the design of the game's content, and the design of the game's content enforces the reality that healers are intended to do DPS, because if you don't then you're going to spend about 70-80% of your time in a fight doing literally nothing but standing AFK.