Are healers lazy because they don't dps? Is there a group of healers that have the mentality that they won't ever dps? I read that and thought, OK, this is a much bigger issue. Maybe OP is generally new to mmos or hasn't healed enough to get why that is. Grouping healers lazy because we don't always dps when it's possible isn't cool. There are bigger and practical reasons why this is common. Basically from what I've experienced and read in these pages is that it comes down to the responsibility healers have. It's also having expectations or standards on people you don't know which is another point you missed, the Duty Finder!

Duty Finder is great, but casual players use it the most and just because you had a healer that dpsed in a instance last week doesn't mean this next one will. So that sure doesn't make anyone lazy or a fabricated idea that healers have adapted this principle to not dps simply because it's not white mage like? XD. I can personally tell you I haven't met one healer yet that thinks that. I mean, yeah, overtime the whole player base can complete harder content and noticeable quicker and more efficient but that's after a good amount of time and gear, Titan HM for example. So possibly you'll get more healers in time that dps. Just don't hold a standard and be presumptuous of random people in a mmo, don't think there's this group of healers that have this anti-dpsing treaty, and don't group healers with the word lazy. It's why this rant is here. It's a hard freakin job, ok?! X(
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