Quote Originally Posted by Kayokane View Post
I like to think of my DPS on WHM as insurance. The more I put out while still keeping the party alive is the less perfect everybody needs to play in order to suceed.

I think that's a fairly common viewpoint on healer damage, but sometimes it can lead to "Oops, I forgot to heal" or "Oops, I thought I could skip that heal" moments wiping the party.
Likewise, I tend to also be fairly safe with healing and will usually toss a heal when people are below about 50-70%, at least so that it doesn't overheal, but I also know that most of that time they probably could've just naturally regened it. I tend to stick to casual content nowadays.

I think the "oops I forgot to heal" moments are over-exaggerated. It happens once in a blue moon, but it's memorable enough that people complain when it does happen. The problem is people run with that experience and I wouldn't be surprised if those experiences are why Square gutted healers with ShB. Funnily enough, it doesn't actually solve it because tunnel-visioning also happens with Glare spam, so we got gutted for nothing. People have a tendency to remember bad experiences over good ones, hence why Tales From DF is largely about negative experiences, despite the premise of the thread being neutral.