Regarding healers acting as DPS

[Adol]

Greetings.

I recently picked up Astrologian a couple days ago and currently loving it. Been going through dungeons from 30 through to 42 where I am now currently sitting on. The job is great. It makes me feel more in control of everything going on more than WHM & SCH did and will most likely make it my first healer job to 60.

As a healer I am confident in my ability to both keep people alive and serve as an extra DPS role in a party. I know when to heal, and when I don't need to heal and can do damage instead. I'm sure many healers know when to switch between modes by now without needing prompting.

This brings me to the crux of this thread. About an hour ago I was doing a levelling roulette as Astrologian and landed in Copperbell Mines. Everyone was well geared, including the tank. I gauged after the first pull that the tank would not need healing during any non-boss encounter 99% of the time and so I continued to do damage instead of heal.
Heck, even with the coblyn and gigas that bursts through the wall encounter, the tank still had over around 200/800 after we had killed the two mobs. Afterwards the tank could move on to the next pack while benefiting from the natural HP regen outside of battle.

We reached the area where the spriggans and thunder sprites appear and the tank suddenly stopped while the two DPS and I carried on going while we waited. I assumed the tank had gone AFK but there was no danger to continue without them.

It was then that I had been dismissed from the party. Without a single word spoken by the other party members letting me know I'd done something wrong to them.

I can only be 100% certain I had been kicked because they did not trust my ability as a healer. They had seen me allow the tank to go to around 25% of their total HP and didn't heal them afterwards. They either thought I was botting, new to the game, or just being an idiot.

The question remains, however, as to what I should do from here on out. In my opinion I should not change the way I perform my healing role. Maybe I am taking things too far with wishing to be both a healer and DPS.

Has anyone else ever been kicked due to this? I realize it can be hard to ascertain the reason for dismissal in a number of situations, but if your playstyle is similar to mine and you don't usually mess things up then you will probably know why.

I'm not upset about anything which has transpired today. After being kicked I simply re-queued and got in instantly due to being a healer. On the other hand, I am concerned about the attitude towards DPS healers in the eyes of the general population of this game.

If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone else who chooses to play this way.