healers need a serious overhaul

[Granyala]

No surprise, when I applied to static groups a few months later... everyone said i was a crap healer and needed to work on my damage rotation!?!? (Those other players had uploaded their parses which had me at 90%+ on healing, and only in the 30%~50% window on damage)
This was my first introduction to what parsing was. I had never heard of this before untill people started shoving logs from other players in face.

Over the last few months I have become increasingly anxious to throw out a single heal because I need the GCD and the weaves between to dish out Damaging spells like Glare, assize(which "the balance"clearly states never save assize for healing) and Blood lily cuz if I dont, I know people will see me as a bad player.

1. BE HAPPY that the people refused to take you into their static. They were clearly idiot players, incapable of actually reading the parsing logs and understanding what was going on. You encountered a "wannabe tryhard" guild, trust me (I have a decade of raiding experience) when I say you do NOT want to raid with people like that. Any proper guild would invite you to testraids, because even if you can read parse data very well, it is always more accurate the see the player in action. Especially in the case of healers, whose performance is highly dependent on how other players are doing.

2. Do not be afraid of healing. That is your job, that's why you are there. If the other healer refuses to do the job, solo heal the encounter (way more fun than mashing Glare anyway). However, do not stand around when there is nothing to heal. Use that downtime to DPS.

Personally, I do not think healers need any big overhaul at all. SE needs to stop being chickens and design encounters that actually mandate healing. If they do that, if they make it a struggle to keep people alive (as it should be), that obsession with healer DPS will die out on it's own. People are only obsessed with DPS because right now, the split is 20% healing 80% DPS. There is, literally, nothing else to do most of the fight than mash those DPS buttons until they beg for mercy.