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

[Saseal]

/soothe First - You're still new to the game yet I wouldn't expect a newer player to do all the things senior players do.
Second - Only DPS when you feel comfortable - there is no 'official' mandate that a healer - any of them - is required to DPS. SCH is probably easiest to DPS with, though, due to faerie healing (especially in lower level dungeons.... you could literally afk-follow and she'd do fine by herself >.>) - just to throw that out there.
Also to throw this out there - people are going to complain, no matter what you do. It may not be something you see commonly or often, but they will complain.. it's just the nature of the social beast. It's unavoidable.... but I haven't seen anyone say anything, whether to me, co-healer or to the healer while I'm on DPS (but maybe I'm just lucky?)

So, yeah... only DPS if you feel comfy. If not, then don't do it. It's only a game - regardless that some may take it more seriously than not. Unless you're getting a paycheck from this, or unless you joined a static that's committed to progression/raiding/savage, then something like healer DPS isn't something to be worried over - but it doesn't sound like you'll be doing that any time soon.

How about this - if you do, in the future, decide to see what it's like, start small (Sastasha/Tam tara, etc.... even if you're leve 60) and work your way up when you feel comfy DPSing in those dungeons. And if you don't feel comfy, part way through or from the get-go, then don't. Think of it as just 'something to do' while you have down time (doing this, you just gauge in the beginning of each mob, how fast the tank's HP is going down... if it's very slow and nothing the faerie can't do herself, then, might as well...)

As someone who mains healer, I'd rather see a healer be more active in healing, rather than one more active in DPSing just so they fit a standard made by the playerbase.... and then possibly make fatal mistakes. I'd wish I could see them push themselves further and not cling to the cure/physic button for a hair line of HP missing, but I'd rather not push my own play style on someone else, when it's not as detrimental as an over-DPSer (.....other than generating unnecessary enmity.... but I digress).

Also, I find it easier to DPS on WHM than SCH o.o but that might just come down to overall experience.... when I go on WHM in content I've done often (and with a tank I know well/in FC) and I go ham... and just -destroy-. My Holy is my wrecking ball :|
I go on SCH and I find myself healing the same time the fae does (2ish years of CNJ/WHM.... hard... to let go.... of solo healing..... hrnngg) while cautiously sprinkling DoTs/baning... (but maybe I'd only gotten paper tanks while leveling SCH, originally...?)
AST I find I'm healing 95+% of the time, more than the other two (no matter how much I want to DPS...).
With that said, if you're not particularly attached specifically to the SCH class, I'd suggest trying AST when you've hit Heavensward content (hell, you could switch to faux-SCH/Nocturnal stance if you want, if it's shields you want... though I'd suggest Diurnal/Faux-WHM by far x_x)


Ironically, my sister - recently joined FFXIV from WoW and RO - is having a hard time finding the opposite ---- realizing that a healer CAN dps... when she -wants- the equiv of a battle priest (RO's stat-created class variant.... no real int and all melee stats like str/agi and dex or luk) just so she CAN DPS while healing o_oa (and we've directed her towards SCH/SMN because of this). *Will have to demonstrate that healers are not just healers in FFXIV, when she unlocks Sastasha...* I think it may be that she also hasn't encountered healer classes much like FFXIV's where someone can be just as dangerous DPSing on healer as they can on a DPS-type.... AND still be an effective healer (*hugs Cleric*). But she keeps asking for "the most like a battle priest" ala RO - and I've no real experience with WoW, so I may be incorrect on any of WoW's classes being similar to FFXIV's healer classes >.>