Quote Originally Posted by kazeandi View Post
It's a bit of an intrinsic problem with the game mechanics as such vs players coming from other games where a healer heals, a tank tanks and DDs do damage.
This 1000 times over.

To add to what was already said it also does not help that the dungeons you do while leveling are with players at max ilvl while you're in all grays. The end result is that your heals feel extremely weak and you're pushed towards the classical healer only role.
My experience has been that people really do not expect you to stance dance during your leveling phases. But as soon as you hit 60 it's another matter and I can understand that some struggle with the somewhat sudden change

I personally feel that a healer should not have to dps unless there's a dps check that needs to be met. Your job is to keep people alive, if you can't do that you're a bad healer, if you can you're an average healer and if you can also dps you're a good healer. That's all there is to it