Quote Originally Posted by Seoulstar View Post
Of course this was a thread about all classes. But somehow it turned into a insult any healer that doesn't DPS thread.
Because it's really the most obvious and common example of a bad player, so it's easy to point fingers.

I mean, nobody would even attempt to argue that a DPS that only puts a DoT on a mob and then hops around for the next 18 seconds is not a bad player - even though that's literally what only healing and not DPSing boils down to most of the time. And technically, that DPS is even doing his job correctly, because he is dealing damage and the mob would die to it - eventually. This is the level of play we're talking about.

The underlying principle here is:"Don't just stand around, make yourself useful." And the reason why healers tend to be singled out there is because no tank or DPS even questions this principle. No tank ever goes:"Well, I got aggro, I'll just stop hitting this mob and jump around until I no longer have." Neither do DPS - even bad DPS use their GCDs, just inefficiently. That is something healers do rather exclusively. And that's why bad player debates quickly gravitate towards them.