Healer should not dps in the dungeons?

[Chihaya]

More like people don't like healers to just stand around and do nothing.

It's like a SCH putting follow on someone and letting Eos/Selene do all the healing.
Yes everyone is alive, but you can do so much more but why aren't you.

[Kazumac]

It's not that you have to but you aren't putting the effort in to increase the effeciency of the group. It's like being annoyed when tanks or dps don't use cool downs... It's available to them but not required to beat most content. I mean I don't have to use berserk when I'm a warrior but seriously why not?

Also I don't think anyone is arguing that a SCH or WHM should dps at the exclusion of required healing but so much of the content in this game is so light on healing that it feels like it was almost designed to give healers the room to dps in inconsequential content like over geared 4 mans. Not like I'd kick a healer for standing around when there's no healing to be done, but I'll view them as not contributing as much to the group as the rest of the team. But that's not really much of an issue since I'm usually the one healing and making sure there are SCH dots all over the place.

[Sparktacus]

If they weren't designed to contribute dps they wouldn't have been given damage spells at all pure and simple, let alone as many as they have, they are not just simply for leveling. From a design point of view it is obvious healers were meant to have dps moments.

[myahele]

Funny, how the CNJ questline talks about this:

[Sapphic]

Funny, how the CNJ questline talks about this:

Complete the CNJ quest line and you see she is persuaded that her healing is bad, as she drawing from herself and not from the elements. Why bad things happened to her mother.

Plus you show her in the quest line that CNJ isnt just about healing but pewpew when needed also to protect those that need it.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

Complete the CNJ quest line and you see she is persuaded that her healing is bad, as she drawing from herself and not from the elements. Why bad things happened to her mother.

Plus you show her in the quest line that CNJ isnt just about healing but pewpew when needed also to protect those that need it.

Thanks, I was about to point out how that capture was taken out of context.

[Mandze]

I'd forgotten that moment in the CNJ quest line. It is so appropriate to this thread. Love it.

[Feyniphia]

Tip: DPS only if you are comfortable by it. I won't require YOU to do DPS if I tank, but at least keep us all alive. More power to you if you can do both sides =)

[Mandze]

The fact that the quests related to that screenshot ultimately resolve into a need for occasional butt-kicking was why I said that it was appropriate. There are healers out there that just want to heal, bards out there who only want to DPS and never sing songs, and melees out there who don't want to cut into their DPS by using any of their utility abilities even when they are appropriate. Folks can choose to play their job however they want, sure, but they may not be playing their job to its full capacity. That's okay in most situations-- most groups are over-geared for most of the content in this game now. But if you've ever seen a boss enrage at 1% because the DPS was just a smidge too low, you'll know that you'll end up kicking yourself for not throwing in a little DPS when you could. Folks who main healers and want to do honestly difficult content at an appropriate item level can really help their parties by contributing all that they can, not just heals.

[Coatl]

The question is if you are ok with being just adequate. If so, then you can continue being just that. Just as there are Tanks that will never use CDs, DPS that don't use any of their cooldowns, there are healers that will never DPS.

And that's fine for most of the content in this game. When I heal there are situations where if I don't throw down some DPS I could potentially fall asleep. Healing is definitely the easiest job in 4-man content, no questions asked. However, there are situations outside of 4-man content where it's not so easy to do the switch between healing and DPS.