Dear Healers that don't DPS in dungeons

[LiadansWhisper]

You don't understand like 90% of the posters here

Why do i think coming back here I dunno but here we go again


I AM NOT SAYING FOR PEOPLE TO DONT HEAL FFS IM TRYING TO SHOW PEOPLE TO DO OTHER STUFF THEN WATCHING NETFLIX WHEN TANKS AND PARTY ARE FULL HP


Tanks dont need to be 100% HP at all time

I dunno, I don't think healers should be pushed to do things they're not comfortable with (especially in the random Duty Finder). And it isn't the healers alt-tabbing to watch Netflix with the tanks at full HP (although for some people, that's how they relax, and I don't see anything wrong with it, either, since they're doing their job - that would be healing, anyway) that this thread is about, if I'm understanding the OP correctly. It's about the healers who, while the tank is at 30% health, they're still spamming Stone II. And they're spamming Stone II because they come here and read that that's what they should be doing. And people keep telling them that if they don't DPS, they're bad and lazy. So there they are, trying to DPS and heal at the same time, but for whatever reason - maybe the tank is undergeared, maybe the DPS don't watch their threat, maybe a pull goes wrong and they get an extra pat, or someone stands in something, maybe they have trouble target swapping, maybe they don't realize they don't have the tank targeted, or whatever, they end up prioritizing the wrong thing at the wrong time. Some healers shouldn't DPS in dungeons. That doesn't make them bad, it makes them new. It takes a while to build up the ability to multitask all the things you're doing in a dungeon (which experienced healers like you may not even realize you're keeping track of, but trust me, you are). It's significantly easier, too, with a pet like Eos, since the only thing she does is heal, and she will generally react correctly even when you do not.

This one-size fits all approach to healing is, quite frankly, bullshit, and I'm going to keep saying it's bullshit for as long as people like you keep pushing it, Whippet. Choosing to DPS or not is, and always should be, the healer's choice. And don't wave raiding in front of my face, because we're not talking about raids. In raids, you do things that you wouldn't ever do otherwise. I have done raid encounters as a healer who does nothing but DPS the entire time except for one particular part of the fight where I heal. I have done raid encounters where doing anything but healing was going to cause a wipe - nevermind concerns about mana. I have done raid encounters where we brought 1 healer - just one. I've seen raids where we stacked 5 of a specific class - to the point of having people bring undergeared alts - for one particular ability we needed to down that particular fight. Raids are very silly places, and they are not 4-man dungeons.

Choosing not to DPS in a dungeon because you don't feel comfortable doing it doesn't make you bad. It doesn't make you wrong. It doesn't make you lazy. It doesn't make you unskilled. But you know what does make you all of those things?

Being so busy DPSing that people die.