Tips for new (and some not-so-new) healers

[AldoVonAlexandros]

also, some times when Im on my whm, if i dont dps is because i want to recover some mp, but yeah, I agree with the dps, as i said before, i always dps, dots and bane help a lot, also shadowflare, miasma II and Ruin II for the blind also helps, most of the time im on CS because I know eos/selene can heal and if an emergency comes I can lustrate, but if a new healer is not confident enough, it can lead to a wipe and he will feel bad cause people will say"why u dps, heal, u wiped us" and stuff like that and at some point, the healer will dps but u cant kick somebody for not dpsing, thats the point.

its not same to say "hey whm/sch, try to dps a little when u can, it would be great =)" instead of "hey, why the f*ck u dont dps?"

but yes, healers, dps if u are confident enough to do it

[Raeanya]

but yes, healers, dps if u are confident enough to do it

This. When I was just starting out, it was a lot to keep track of between healing and cleansing. There were a few times that I was asked (sometimes politely, sometimes not) to DPS and I would throw an Aero out every now and then. Now that I have more experience playing the game, I spend much more time stance dancing. People need to realize that some players just haven't gotten used to recognizing when they have a window where they can provide some DPS yet. Even now, there are times where I throw some DPS, just to realize that my tank is super squishy and I need to spam cure to keep him up.

[ariaandkia]

but yes, healers, dps if u are confident enough to do it

I definitely will DPS if I see a chance to, but... there are two factors that make me not DPS.

1) Party can't handle losing cure for a second. When I don't have time to cast regen, I don't have time to DPS. (Generally, if I'm not spamming cure 2, I'll throw on a regen and use a cure 2 to make up for the lost time as a quick patch up and then I can cure 1 or dps or both. If I'm spamming cure 2 just to keep the tank from dying, I don't have time to do anything else. Don't even say "Why not swiftcast regen?" or "Why not swiftcast cure 2?"

2) I'm saving some MP for in case something goes wrong. It has saved the party more than once when I had that extra MP for when something went really bad all of a sudden (tank dc'ed, main DPS dc'ed, etc.).

3) As I mentioned before, aggro control. When my DPSing will end in all the enemies killing me as one, I'm not going to add to my enmity.