Healer should not dps in the dungeons?

[Leadleaf]

Chances are the OP's party only booted to get a friend for an in-prog. I don't buy that a votekick would be performance related just before the final boss.
But the complaint itself was pathetic so I guess anything's possible with these people.

[Its_Elodie]

I was in the snowcloack today and some kind of bard started whining about that cause i did dps and spam holy in the aoe pulls. Nobody died in that whole 15min dungeon

Oh wow. If no one dies in a dungeon and you are healing then you've already done your job and played your role well enough in a dungeon. If can do that AND manage your mp, switch between cleric stance and holy or apply dot's then you are doing your minimum job role and THEN SOME by making the dungeon run faster by helping with dps. That bard :/ I really have no comment. They must not heal or are just one of those few people who I've run into in dungeons who have an ideal for how each role is/should be run regardless of them playing it or not. I would've said ok, I won't dps at all and you can feel free to lose another 5 minutes of your life in this dungeon. My guess is he was just jealous of your deeps. Shake them haters off though! ...and from one healz to another, good job

[Leigaon]

Seems like you kept up your part of the deal which is to keep everyone alive, after that if you can maintain the party's health then you're free to DPS. No idea why they would get upset if you're keeping people alive and making the run go a bit faster.

[Obzeta]

I'm really happy you made this I was just wondering about this. I've just started healing just making lvl 30 with my cnj, absolutely loving it but one or two times I've been sniped at for dpsing, despite having no issues with healing and spare time when healing would have been a waste. Great, keep it up and so will I!

[TetsuyaHikari]

The only time I get annoyed with WHM dpsing is when their damage interferes with their healing. Like holy for example. If you spam it so much that your MP drops to 400 or less and you're unable to keep us alive because of that... Yeah, then we'd have a problem. I've seen that happen before too.

If you're not running out of MP and keeping people alive though, I don't see an issue. I'm always popping DOTs and such as a SCH, but I guess people generally expect SCH to be doing damage more than a WHM.

[Hurlstone]

In my opinion, DPS'ing whilst healing should be optional. If you feel you can handle the heals then great, go for it. This game more then most seems to encourage DPS'ing whilst healing (Hence Cleric Stance etc...). But if someone is new to the healing game or the class, they may want to just concentrate on get the healing aspect right. Even if they just enjoy pure healing I do not really think they should be penalized.

[ChibiChan_Hyperion]

In my opinion, DPS'ing whilst healing should be optional. If you feel you can handle the heals then great, go for it. This game more then most seems to encourage DPS'ing whilst healing (Hence Cleric Stance etc...). But if someone is new to the healing game or the class, they may want to just concentrate on get the healing aspect right. Even if they just enjoy pure healing I do not really think they should be penalized.

Your opinion is correct; it's absolutely optional. The toolset of a Conjurer is there so they can manage in solo content. There will never be any duties that require healer DPS as this is a player-created min/maxing ideology. It's pretty useful for pushing early progression content or making up for a difficult phase change, but this is all just either compensating for problems elsewhere (usually gear level difference when content first comes out, etc) or solely to speed things up.

[Wildsprite]

In my opinion, DPS'ing whilst healing should be optional. If you feel you can handle the heals then great, go for it. This game more then most seems to encourage DPS'ing whilst healing (Hence Cleric Stance etc...). But if someone is new to the healing game or the class, they may want to just concentrate on get the healing aspect right. Even if they just enjoy pure healing I do not really think they should be penalized.

I was about to reply with this, but you said it so much better than I could think of.
whether the Healer is DPSing or not should be entirely up to that Healer and their comfort zone.

[RyuDragnier]

In my opinion, DPS'ing whilst healing should be optional. If you feel you can handle the heals then great, go for it. This game more then most seems to encourage DPS'ing whilst healing (Hence Cleric Stance etc...). But if someone is new to the healing game or the class, they may want to just concentrate on get the healing aspect right. Even if they just enjoy pure healing I do not really think they should be penalized.

Pretty much how I feel. There's almost always a time in a dungeon where DPSing can be done by a healer and if you think you can pull it off while keeping the party alive, go for it. If you're not sure, either try to DPS or avoid doing it, it's all up to you as a healer.

[GizmoDraeco]

As a Healer myself, the first priority is healing, but if everything is okay on that end, then go ahead and DPS a little, just make sure that you are paying attention to the HP of the party rather that the damage you are dealing out.