Quote Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH View Post
The problem there is the fact that people already expect others to do more than their intended role. Regardless of how well things are going or not, healers are expected to deal DPS too, and typically fairly large amounts. I've seen main healer white mage get kicked from a group for doing 1,200 in i200. Like it or not, so long as healer expected DPS is kept at zero,any DPS that comes from your healers is in fact making up for the shortcomings of the actual DPS, regardless of how good/bad they are.
I'm assuming that happened during one of the over 9000 healers you've seen kicked for not DPSing. Most of the top scores for WHM in Hummelfaust are not over 1200 DPS and that's a fight which is solely a DPS check with the other healer doing the vast majority of the healing and were posted within the last month or two. Thus, I very highly doubt you know a WHM in i200 gear that did 1200 DPS.

Contributing to DPS is not "more than their intended role" for any job. Every job has damage capabilities in some form or another and accuracy caps are such that every job can reach the accuracy cap in every fight. I'm not saying healers should be held to a DPS standard but if you're sitting around not casting anything because minimal damage is going out, it makes sense that you could fill that down time with something productive.