DPSing as a healer

[Seoulstar]

No, this boils down to being respectful towards your group members by actually contributing instead of doing nothing.

The thing is, the healer is still doing something. The healer is healing the team. They are still contributing to the team by keeping them alive. If you call that "doing nothing" then it's clear we have two different ideas on the same phrase. Either way, I still fail to understand why people are blowing this up to be something bigger than it needs to be. It's not a savage raid, it's just a dungeon. It's not going to kill you if you get a healer that doesn't dps and it's not them being disrespectful. I've encountered plenty of healers that didn't dps and politely asked if that was ok. And no one threw a fit over it. I wish the people in this thread could do the same.

[Taika]

The thing is, the healer is still doing something. The healer is healing the team. They are still contributing to the team by keeping them alive.

No, I mean literally doing nothing. As in not using actions, standing still or being on /follow on tank (like the SCH in my example). Because you aren't required to do anything at all for the whole party to survive way too many fights (or just AoE regen the party and regen the tank and then you could afk and everyone will be alive). So if you focus on just keeping your party alive in those fights or in those parts of the fight where no one is taking any damage, you are doing nothing. You are not contributing in any way.

And if you choose to heal when that's not required, you're at least doing something, but you're not doing something useful - in other words you're not contributing in a meaningful way. You're like a BLM who chooses to spam Physic on a full HP tank when you could and should be doing damage.