But...I...I don't wanna DPS, I'm a healer...

[Welsper59]

The only real classes on WoW that heal/DPS are really a spec of Priest and some totems with Shaman. I was a Druid for 10 years which is a heal over time healer so my time was spent constantly refreshing heals on the raid and the tank, there wasn't really time to DPS because you were constantly working your HoT rotation.

If FFXIV had a class like that, I'd be in heaven. As it stands however, I'm just not comfortable DPSing at this point (At least with my WHM which I'm leveling to 34 for Stone Skin).

Don't worry too much about it. Yoshi-P himself has stated they generally don't balance content around having a necessity for healers to DPS. It's us, the players, who may want you to DPS. That being said, if you're not comfortable about it, then don't. For you, as a SCH, you'll have the easiest time learning to DPS. The fairy heals for a huge portion of your overall healing. As you level, that thing IS your party healer lol. Try running something like Sastasha or Totorak and you'll notice you almost never need to heal as SCH, since your fairy will pretty much overheal. Those low lvl dungeons are also an easy training tool to learning how to manually control your fairy to heal on command (alongside its auto-heal script), since as you're DPSing, you can control it as a separate character with its own GCD.

Bottomline though, don't worry about DPSing if you don't want to. It helps, but it's far from mandatory in most groups, outside of things like Savage mode raids. And the only reason that is needed is because we want to clear it sooner than the devs intend for us to. Sometimes, like occasions like that or a bad dungeon group, the DPS will be lacking and can't keep up with a DPS check mechanic. Healers throwing out some damage can help save the party, but again... not really your responsibility.

OP I don't want to sound confrontational but I'm genuinely curious. You said this: "I rolled a healer specifically because I didn't wanna DPS." I'm not really sure your reasoning or philosophy behind this, you or any healer who feels this way.

Are you a pacifist? Well the rest of the group standing 5 feet from you are killing monsters and demons, and you're enabling that.

Are you worried about the stress of having good DPS? I find healers are the most forgiven for "low DPS" as long as they make an effort when they can; I despise low DPS in PUGs but if the healer at least throws something up when he can I'm fine even if he's not some i210 jacked healer DPSer doing optimal rotations and potting. Even the WHMs who only throw up no Cleric Stance Aeros and Stones, well, they're doing something!

To me I just don't make a distinction between a healer healing, and a healer healing and DPSing when he can, morally or philosophically. I don't see what the extra weight or baggage is to it.

It's the role itself that you need to consider. In most traditional RPGs, the healer is NOT a damage source. They may have a mediocre spell or two that is intended for damage, but you just basically keep them in the back and heal when needed since their damage output is pathetic. That's why they're there, to heal, after all. It's only the modernized MMORPGs that popularized the idea of healers doing damage as part of a community expectation. The devs, however, will rarely ever create content with the expectation that healers must DPS for everything.