dungeon helpers

[Cynfael]

What I find is that if you play SCH, DPS players (particularly SMN and BLM) will heal themselves more frequently than when I play WHM. That's all fine, but that just shows how inefficient healers DPS'ing really is, because it brings down the total DPS of the party if the party members are stopping DPS themselves to heal. If SMN and BLM's are doing this because they always think SCH's are incompetent, what does that really say?

This is nonsense. BLMs and SMNs attempting to heal themselves are generally incompetent (to put it more generously, perhaps they are very new and simply don't know better). The only time it is acceptable for the DPS caster to spend their GCDs on healing is when both of the following are true: 1) the healer is not healing (usually = they're dead) and 2) the DPS heals will at least keep the tank up long enough to give the group a chance of salvaging the situation.

If players are playing the dungeons like they are designed, healers would not be DPS'ing at all except when the party is taking no damage.

Many weeks and many threads of discussion later and you still don't understand how this works? I feel like this is the commercial with the elderly woman not understanding social media -- That's not how any of this works.

When in doubt, don't step out of your role unless you're taking ownership of the party failure for doing so. It's far easier for the healer to not DPS and just save their MP until someone needs a heal than it is for them to DPS and cause an overall net DPS loss because the DPS players think the healer is incompetent and are healing themselves. You will have people that will complain either way, so justify what you're doing instead of just letting the DPS walk over you.

This...doesn't...really...happen. And neither does running dry on MP due to providing support DPS. Whacking the dead horse again here, but it's indisputable that healer DPS increases efficiency when done properly (and yes, that means weaving DPS between necessary heals). Sitting on your GCDs with a maxed MP bar waiting for some disaster that won't happen is a terrible way to play.