Do i need to DPS?

[Astral145]

If "in a hurry" is before they raise the iLVL cap or add echo, then sure. Otherwise it's not really in the cards to beat something like A4S with just the hopes and dreams of 4 DPS.

It sounds like in your universe only DPS should do good damage and SE has molded their raids around this fact ... unfortunately for the less stoic healers/tanks out there, that's not what the devs went for, this time around.

Well dps's main job is to dps. A dead dps cannot dps. You can always save your i190 - i210 gear if you want hardcore mode. BTW echo will not be added to savage for a long while and who knows if the devs will add echo to savage this time around. The devs are creating 2 modes for each raid (story and savage). So echo may not be added... nobody knows at this point in time. All I'm saying is if the healers in your group feel comfortable throwing down the deeps then by all means dps away. There is no wrong or right... play the way you feel like playing.