DPSing as a healer

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This is a horrible mentality in a cooperative multiplayer game, and you're an extremely selfish person if you think that's an argument in any way.

I am selfish. I realized this decades ago. It's my life and no one's going to live it for me, even if they could.

I've been playing with my AST for the better part of 3 months now. In my very brief experience. It makes ZERO since to juggle cleric stance in the middle of an instance.
By the time I get through a single cast, the mob is either dead or down to the point where it makes little to no difference what so ever. If healers were meant to DPS they wouldn't have 2 different stats and a skill to dictate usefulness. You also wouldn't need an extra DPS class in the group. Why not just run with 1 tank, 1 healer and 1 DPS. Because apparently Healers are the new DPSes. Makes a lot of sense. You wouldn't ask a DPS to tank would you? No , doubt it. Why not? Because that's not his class. Why is it always different for healers?

Feel free to show me hard numbers that shows an AST in cleric stance doing damage that speeds up group progress and I'd gladly retract my statement. But casting just to make yourself look busy is more wasteful and useless then just standing there.

TLR. Unless you're dying. Don't tell the healer how to play his/her class.