Quote Originally Posted by Cynfael View Post
What you aren't mentioning is the other side of the coin: it's so much easier for most healers to DPS outside of end-game raid content since the windows are large, obvious, and frequent. You literally have nothing better to do than to help DPS if you are a good healer with even an average party. It should be fairly obvious that the healer DPS discussion is most relevant to raid scenarios since the only question in regards to the rest of the content is "does the player know what to do, and are they doing it?" Questions of intention or design are irrelevant there.

I'm not the one reaching to draw conclusions here; I'm simply referring to what's actually been discussed by official sources.
Does that really need to be said though? I mean, we all know this already. The OP already knew this. If a human being has a properly functional brain, you can put it together that you can do more, so they would know this too (eventually) lol. The design mention is incredibly relevant here for this context of the subject. The OP is uncomfortable having to DPS because of the fact that a lot of people have an obscured belief that it is INTENDED (see mandatory) for healers to always DPS alongside using heals. For something to be intentional, it had to have been designed with that in mind. That claim that healers are intended to DPS is 100% false. So this is completely relevant for this topic.

There is zero content ever created in this game with the design that a healer must DPS, at least when done as the devs intended. Yoshi-P also mentions that healers should DPS if you need that extra output, but it is never a part of their raid design. So raids are covered on that. Now, as I said previously, look at all other content in the game. Think of a single group activity that is, by design, mandatory for healers to DPS to be successful. If a player wants to DPS as a healer, then please do. It helps a lot. But strictly looking at it from the role and how content is created, it's not a requirement (yet). That was the point for the OP on the matter, because he didn't want to DPS as a healer, which is fine as long as your group activity doesn't require it to be successful (which would be doing something NOT as intended).