do I hafta..

[Spoekes]

So I had a WoD run where one of the alliances kicked their SCH healer after a Wipe. I can only guess why. I'm in Alliance B in this one.

maybe the SCH just left after the wipe like so many ppl do?

This is the very thing I'm talking about when it comes to carries and Healers doing ineffective amount of damage. In the 24-person raid, there's so little opportunity to DPS as a healer, that you may as well not bother so you don't get chewed out when one of the DPS players or Tanks dies.

Are you serious?
In every tower you have so much occasions to DPS and be very effective, I must presume you are just inexperienced.

There was a earlier Mainstream storyline run where the other healer (a SCH) entered in Cleric stance mode and didn't exit CS until I said something. They were doing all their heals with Cleric stance on up to that point. After that, they probably could have solo healed the entire party, but the first set of mobs... two characters die including one of the tanks. Now would it have happened had they been paying attention? I don't know but they were being entirely cheeky about it. This is not the first time a mainstream run through Castrum where I've reminded the other healer to turn cleric stance off during healing after waiting to see if they notice themselves.

This is an anecdote about a bad player. So what? You don't heal in CS, everyone on this thread knows that and its not to debate, it's not even on topic.

My experiences are indeed closer to "worst case" scenarios, because I've been playing exclusively with PUG groups. That's how you tell the difference between bad players and good players. Bad players can't figure out how to make lemonade from lemons, so they keep buying premade lemonade. Average and Good players can play with whatever they are given and shouldn't have to get into arguments over who isn't pulling their weight.

That's what the entire "should I dps as a healer?" argument comes back to.

Quite honestly the amount of elistist snobbery that comes out of the people who farm Coil is enough to just write off that content without a static group of players who actually want to play it for fun.

How did we end up here from the topic of healer dps? It's not an elitist thing. Uh boy...