Healers please

[Raven2014]

Can't really call them a boogeyman considering they still exist, and I'm not referring to the "dying to a raidwide 3 seconds after after standing in the ouch" kind of a situation, I'm talking like more of a "Raidwide is being cast, party is 30%, everyone is hitting their self heals, and healer is still casting glare" type of healer

That's not really because of DPS, that's just being bad. It has been mentioned many times healer have more than enough tool currently to deal with these kind of thing. Top off the party and healing and DPSing are not mutual exclusive, even within the same GCD.

[Dogempire]

That's not really because of DPS, that's just being bad. It has been mentioned many times healer have more than enough tool currently to deal with these kind of thing. Top off the party and healing and DPSing are not mutual exclusive, even within the same GCD.

I literally just called it playing badly

[Penthea]

Top off the party and healing and DPSing are not mutual exclusive, even within the same GCD.

A problem is some healers think they are. Some entirely refuse to heal or entirely refuse to dps. It's a healer's job to do both. They have buttons for both.

And frankly I find the ones who refuse to heal simply because there is another healer to be lazy. They're pressing one button 99% of the time while they expect the other healer to be strategic with a wide range of abilities. By refusing to heal in a fight with a lot of damage they're literally demanding to get carried.

That is not to say that I think refusing to dps is any good. I am just quite tired of people romanticising healers who don't heal in high damage fights without thinking of the position that puts the other healer in, especially if they didn't even agree to it.