Sleep related white mage question.

[EdenLost]

Sleep is a good way for WHM to mitigate damage, but I honestly feel like it's not needed 99% of the time, and it just makes the run take longer. If your tank can hold aggro, and utilize his cooldowns, then the better option is to just let the DPS AoE and burn the mob. The faster they kill the group, the less overall damage the tank would take, and MP wouldn't be an issue.

That makes sense if you believe that WHM can't contribute except to be a heal bot.
Let's say tank is taking a group of 3 mobs. I know I can get some shots in between heals and speed things up. Then we have a large pull with say 5-6 mobs, then I have to just heal, because tank is taking so much damage. But if I can sleep 2 of them, then I can contribute to the damage and speed things up. Usually it's ruined by AoE's from bards or whatnot that do minimal damage and just serve to wake up sleepers, and put me out of damage mode again. It actually slows things down.

[Gamma621]

That makes sense if you believe that WHM can't contribute except to be a heal bot.
Let's say tank is taking a group of 3 mobs. I know I can get some shots in between heals and speed things up. Then we have a large pull with say 5-6 mobs, then I have to just heal, because tank is taking so much damage. But if I can sleep 2 of them, then I can contribute to the damage and speed things up. Usually it's ruined by AoE's from bards or whatnot that do minimal damage and just serve to wake up sleepers, and put me out of damage mode again. It actually slows things down.

If you honestly think you're dealing more damage between heals than a DPS using AoE, you are sadly mistaken. White Mages can contribute to DPS plenty, but they shouldn't need "Sleep" to do so. Any decent healer should be able to assess the situation and change modes accordingly, without crippling the other DPS in the party.

If you don't want to do your job as a healer, then you might want to change classes.