Quote Originally Posted by Kerano View Post
I'M SORRY i always assumed that the healers role was healing first. It's your job to "babysit" the PARTY, if they don't need heals sure go ahead dps, but if every healers mentality is "You better gear up so good i don't have to play my role"
This is actually worth quoting because it highlights half the point of the back and forth in this thread. It's just as much the tank's job to babysit the party too. If they dont need extra tanking stats to be able to survive, they should go ahead and dps.

The only reason this thread exists is because the mechanics of the game allow for tanks AND healers to gear themselves for damage rather than their primary role, because their primary role isnt so difficult that they're at risk of everything dying if they don't focus 100% on them. The issue is that the squishier a tank is, the less a healer can add DPS to the party, and the more a tank has to gear up to allow a healer to DPS, the less DPS the tank adds.

It's give and take, and varies from dungeon to dungeon. What we DON'T need is each side standing flinging mud at the other side saying "well I do more DPS than you so you should accomodate ME".