Quote Originally Posted by Cabalabob View Post
When you’re learning a fight don’t worry so much about dps, your job is to heal, focus on that, play your cards, maybe throw out some DoTs and maelfics when you feel like there’s some downtime in the healing, but for the most part you’re a healer and outside of savage content your dps doesn’t mean that much.

Once you’ve got the fight down and you know what damage is coming when and you know when and where to move for mechanics, then you can start to optimise your healing and focus more on dps. I like to think of healers as a manual car slowly shifting gears as you get more comfortable with the fight.
This. DPS is something to work in when you're comfortable with content. Focus on just keeping yourself alive by doing mechanics and healing the party of course, and let the dps come when you're comfortable.

Having healer dps is all well and good, but not if you're stressing yourself out or stretching too thin while getting used to thing.