Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
If people really want to DPS that bad, play a proper DPS class. Healers are there to heal, not try to milk a stat that's already so low and do next to nothing helpful for the group.
People of all varying skill level make mistake from time to time. What matters is their history & how ‘consistently’ it happens. If a healer actually let their party die from lack of healing fairly often then they definitely should hold their horses & play in more reserved manner until they get used to the flow. And no, I’m not counting healing people who collects vuln stacks like cookies. Mistakes happens yes but there’s a point where it becomes obvious whether it’s worthy to upkeep these individuals or not.

None of us were there to witness what actually happened in your run so I can only take it with grain of salt; bad runs happens from time to time. It’s nothing new. I’d wager the mistake from their side was to blow most, if not all of their instants too early & was too late to hardcast any heals to prevent deaths.

Not sure what you meant by ‘stat’, but I’ll bite.

Unlike in many other MMO, XIV healers dps actually makes up a respectable portion of party’s overall damage, it’s definitely not “next to nothing”. In dailies when I run with a friend who regularly opens up the can of worms, I’d learn that as a healer I would often dish out around the same, and sometimes even outdamaging the DPSes in the party. A decent DPS should be outdamaging me and be about 30% higher or more (even better!). Take my damage away in these scenarios then everything will be a slog to clear.