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

[MentheusDreyar]

This right here is pretty much why the healer DPS meta is always going to remain (barring an overhaul of fight design and/or itemisation). While the other healers got a few DPS skills, none of them got the luxury of having a DPS base class, plus a partner (fairy) that's always healing even when you're not. No reason not to take advantage really when you consider those points.

Exactly!

As a scholar it's very easy to shield the tank on pull, switch to clerics and dot and bane the pack before the tank even takes much damage considering after they drop below 80% the fairy starts healing them. This should really be the bare minimum per pull tbh unless your tank doesn't know what defensive cooldowns are

As for healer DPS in general, it's very easy to shield/regen the tank and dps until they drop to around 50-60% and a very good healer can risk more, but you can push farther as a Scholar given our superior mitigation and fairy. As a scholar I personally let them drop to around 40% for tanks that i don't know and just lustrate them because i might as well get some extra DPS in and burn my spare Aetherflow stacks as it comes off CD.

Unless a tank buster is about to begin there's no reason for the tank to be on 100% HP all the time.

As for me personally i have a heal/dps ratio of roughly:

Whm : 40/60
AST: 50/50 atm still levelling
SCH: 20/80

For general content i pretty much never leave Clerics stance as a sch