healers need a serious overhaul

[Undeadfire]

Healers can DPS and should DPS during downtime.

But I disagree that they are Judged on their dps and are expected to push big dps numbers and heal less to achieve it.
It just...seems like the complete opposite of what a healer is designed to be....

It's not about healing less, it's about using your healing efficiently and working with your co-healer for their O-GCDs. You use maths to max uptime your DPS and heal based on the level of damage and mitigation planning with your crew, you got Regen stuff too use them to their advantage. Melees have Feint, Casters have Addle, Ranged have Samba (etc), Tanks have multiple mitigation tools, work with them to reduce incoming damage and allowing you to push DPS more. Getting a fight over quicker results less mistakes in the long run.

[Liam_Harper]

It's not about healing less, it's about using your healing efficiently and working with your co-healer for their O-GCDs.

Exactly. If your group takes 1 million damage over a fight, it's about healing 1 million or so and putting the rest into dps. Healing 4 million and doing noodle dps has absolutely no benefit. Your group isn't safer, in fact you've probably burned resources on negligible damage and your group is less safe when things go bad.

This idea that doing dps means healing "less" is so off the mark. We are healing all the damage. We just aren't healing all the damage twice over for no reason.

The idea that healers are only designed to heal is just lazy too. It's actually great that we're capable of more. It should make the role more rewarding to master because you can contribute even further than your primary task. It should be embraced and worked on.