DPSing as a healer

[FunkyBunch]

Although it appears that healer DPS is the only metric to dictate a skilled healer, you can rest assured that those healers are efficiently using all available tools and have a full understanding of their class in order to complete both tasks (as long as everyone is staying healthy). Which leaves you with an incredibly efficient healer when heavy actual healing is required.

Exactly this. If you don't DPS you may as well be a bot. I got placed with a healer gold farm bot in Hull Breaker Isle HM for some reason and they kept us alive just fine.
No cleric, no talking, no dodging, barely survived the boss because they ate every AoE and didn't run for the pot chest when poisoned.
They didn't optimally heal, they just healed one person to full then the next then the next if multiple people were injured. And we still didn't die. With a bot. Be better than a bot.

[Alistaire]

Be better than a bot.

Pretty much the summary of the thread.