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

[Sleigh]

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.

[PriestAlseid]

Things.

It's more like, I took a role that's traditionally focused on keeping the team alive, if I wanted to do damage I'd have rolled a damage class, that's basically what I mean.

There's nothing philosophical or moral about it, it's a game, it doesn't exist. I just know what I enjoy doing and usually, damage isn't it, at all. Obviously when you solo you're doing damage but you're not competing with anyone but yourself.

And the extra baggage is I've been playing for 45 days and I'm not used to the system yet, and maybe that's why you don't get it, because you're not entirely new and learning a whole new game, it's not a big deal for you because you've been doing it, but I haven't. I don't know anything about this game other than, "Do story quests to level, do FATES, level secondary classes with Levequests, do dungeons" I'm still learning, and figuring out. I spend a good chunk of time googling what I'm actually meant to be doing.