Quote Originally Posted by Cynfael View Post
Here's the thing: most of us who are giving people advice on how to play healer properly use the DF and play with actual random people on a regular basis. This information is not coming to you from the FFXIV Military Healer Academy; these are skills that we use every day in random settings.
This 100%. I'm not a member of a FC or a LS and I only play with PUGs. I have no trouble DPSing and healing in a group of randoms since I have a lot of practice with it and understand when DPSing is possible. I have made mistakes but I learn from them. My mistakes don't discourage me from DPSing.