Healer should not dps in the dungeons?

[Ashkendor]

All that does is generate massive hate, which the Tank may or may not be able to pull the mob off of you (regardless of how 'good' the tank is).

I have a harder time pulling mobs off of an over-healing WHM than a dps'ing one, honestly.

Your heals generate WAY more hate than your attack spells ever could.

But for those who think WHM is a DPS (which by the majority of the posts in this thread DO think that)... sorry, take off the rose tinted pince-nez and wake up. You are a HEALER. You're first and primary role is to HEAL AND KEEP THE PARTY ALIVE. Everything else is secondary.

Flame me if you want... but I will continue to play the same way that served me well in XI and other MMO's here as a Healer.

Pretty sure we know WHM (and SCH for that matter) are healers. Nobody here that I've seen actually goes as far as to think that they're DPS. If you don't want to cast attack spells, that's up to you. As a SCH, I enjoy balancing DPS skills with healing skills as I'm permitted to do by the situation. If anything, it's easier to dps a boss than it is a huge trash pull because there's less constant demand for my healing skills with only one thing hitting the tank as opposed to 15+ things hitting them. As a tank, let me just say that I love it when a healer can both keep me alive and throw some hurt on a huge pull. It's amazing. It helps everything go so much faster. WHM/SCH that just stand there and heal in four man content are pretty forgettable overall and don't usually earn commendations from me unless they're newer players. Raids are an entirely different animal, of course. :3