Quote Originally Posted by Aethaeryn View Post
No, this attitude needs to stop. A healer's job is to heal things. It is OPTIONAL for a healer to dps. It's nice when a healer feels comfortable enough to help contribute to damage dealt, but you should not be pressuring that player to do it. If it's necessary for clearing the latest coil or something, that's different. I personally would be bored to tears if I didn't DPS in dungeons/WoD/etc. on white mage and scholar, but some people prefer to only heal and may not have the experience or coordination to do both.
Name one other job that's essentially allowed to afk in the middle of a battle. Oh right, there isn't one. So why should healers be treated any differently? Look at an off-tank for example. His job is to pick up adds. Would you object to an off-tank standing around doing nothing, i.e. not DPSing, when there are no adds to pick up? Bet you 99.9% of people would. Hypocrites.

The whole "healing full-time" argument might have had merit ... if there were actually healers who did just that - heal people in the other two parties, raise, stoneskin, something, anything productive. Instead, you typically get 4 healers not in the MT group who just watch and wait for someone in their own parties to die before doing something.

Anyways, on-topic: when people with their soul stones equipped perform better than someone on a class, then they have the right to complain. Until then, all these WAR/PLDs who can't pick up adds or hold hate, sub-200 DPS everything, and WHM/SCH who do nothing but spam Medica II/afk-fairy-heal can go work on carrying their own weights first.