Quote Originally Posted by braneri1 View Post
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Roles are not set in stone, yes, hence why some tanks turn on their DPS instances, DPS classes use songs/buffs that help the party while lowering their damage and healers do DPS. This DOES NOT MEAN any of these things are their primary responsability.

If, as a healer, outside of hardcore endgame, I decide to not DPS, I'm not dragging anyone down because:
• It's not my main role.
• The game is not designed with healer damage in the calculations.
• My priority is to keep everyone alive, buffed and use my cooldowns accordingly to the situations while predicting danger.

The same applies to DPS who focus on their damage instead of buffs and Tanks who focus on enmity generation: are they using their class to their extremely full potential? No.
Are they playing their class to a sufficient extent so the party can advance without trouble? Yes.

All this healer DPS mentality was never endorsed by the devs outside of endgame hardcore content, and I really think this began with reminiscent players from WoW or other games that are not Final Fantasy to begin with.