Quote Originally Posted by Lyrinn View Post
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.
You're missing my point. Trying to force someone to dps on healer when they are not comfortable with it is wrong. If it's just someone being lazy, that's completely different and I even agree with you. However, we have people from all sorts of gaming background (and lots who have never touched an MMORPG before FFXIV), and some people may lack the coordination required for multitasking heals and dps as a result. Have you never had a dungeon run with a healer that seemed to struggle to keep the party alive even during non-speedrun pulls? Just because it's easy for you or me doesn't mean it is for everyone else. You can't apply that argument to an offtank standing around or a dps going afk in the middle of a fight.

Similarly, I would never complain if a tank was uncomfortable with speedrunning and didn't want to pull more than one or two groups at a time. However, almost every time I have a dungeon like that, someone will harass the tank for not doing "big pulls" or even try to pull for them, and it turns into a bad time for the entire group. If you want some super fast group, make your own party and stop harassing people in duty finder.