Healers doing damage

[cgbspender]

Of course, you don't just dps.. You pick the right moment for it. I didn't mean to incitate any healer to dps blindly.

[Sousoulsu]

Your FC is made up of anti-turbo-nerd babbies.
Abort ASAP.

[MeiUshu]

Dpsing is circumstancial in my opinion and not based on whether you are or not a good healer of whether or not you want to dps. It is just based on circumstances, understand the quality of the players you are grouped with and of course, your own knowledge of the place and the people you play with.


Mei

[FoxyAreku]

Scholars are expected to dps at all times in my experienced opinion.

White mage is more pure healing, but even white mage can (and probably should) do some damage in dungeons and trash.

[MeiUshu]

what people expect and what a healer is effectively in a position to do in any given instance/dungeon/hunt/group/party whatever is entirely circumstancial and depends on the others as much as yourself. There cannot be a rule set in stone. Why people want to make out of a any given job a machine job...everything depends on many factors that are on you and/or others. Saying should/must means qwats in my opinion...people should be able to analyze a situation and just go with it rather then say ohh now I want to dps and just forget of the rest....is like saying I want to hit the Boss and dont care of adds, well you can say so and do so but the entire party will wipe...there is a place and a time for everything but nothing is set on stone.

Just me though
Mei

[Elysaine]

Not max level yet with my new character (26 Conjurer), but so far I'll dps if the party can handle the stuff. If people take a lot of damage, I'll heal full power. But if not necessary I throw out an Aero and some Stones

[Edellis]

The ability to swap between cleric during pulls and sneak in DoT / give real help with DPS checks during trials is why WHM actually became one of my favorite roles in the game. It's dynamic, and the better you are at healing, the better/stronger you are at DPSing.

After playing endgame BRD, BLM and PLD, WHM is easily the most engaging class i've played thus far.


Your FC is a bit silly for thinking that BTW. Unless Cleric stance is getting people killed, I don't see how effective use of it is anything but a plus. If the party is in no immediate danger of being killed, what's the point in wasting MP overhealing, or doing nothing, when you could become a 5th source of DPS?

[Kazumac]

In many cases the most engaging part of healing is doing the stance dance

Healing 8 man content with my FC my co healer and I coordinate a lot of our cooldowns including cleric stance usage etc. You wipe at 1% on fights a few times and you start squeezing in dps when healing isn't needed. It becomes habit and next thing you know... You are always doing it. Helping push phases /healerflex

[Alex_Lenderson]

Healers should totally do damage as long as they can get away with it. If they aren't doing damage it is like a DPS not doing a proper rotation. Just makes things take longer for no reason.

[Chevrefoil]

I like to swap to cleric and help out, especially if the dps are newer or we don't have many ranged for adds on add heavy fights (since it seems melee do better sticking to the boss anyway). As long as no one dies, it's cool. HOLY however is awesome and I use it all the time simply to get the stun on large pulls --- it gives the tank (who normally runs away and apparently doesn't want stoneskin) a few moments of breathing room.

If I'm feeling lazy, I don't dps. But that's not too often since the dungeons get boring if I'm just healing.