Remember When Tanks Asked Before Large Pulls?

[Chocolys]

It's true the dungeons are now easier than they were in 2.0, but even back then healers were expected to be DPSing as much as they are now. I remember I was expected to Holy in Brayflox, which you used as an example, and use Benediction to heal the tank as planned between the Holys (and Scholars were able to Lustrate in Cleric Stance in 2.0). It's in no way a new thing, these days it's just much easier for healers to DPS.

Oh I did use benediction often but I did not really have the opportunity to plan for when. So maybe you have luck with being random matched with excellent tanks, but most of my runs as soon as tank had finished gathering the giant group of monsters, it would take almost less time to his HP to reach zero than the animation time of Holy xD.
Basically most of the times when the tanks stopped running and starting getting hit, If I had not both Divine Seal + Presence of Mind on me, Regen on the tank and me spamming Cure I and Cure II (sometimes even just cure II because cure I would not cut it) then the tanks would be dead. Any distraction from me for a second or two, and they would be dead. And to make it even more fun, sometimes I had to use Medicas because of DPS somehow getting dangerously low, or to get more regen power).

But that's how I like healer class, I want healing to be a fight in itself. For me if I have enough time to do DPS, that means something is wrong and the monsters do not hit hard/debuff enough. Said otherwise, DPS have DPS check, I want healer to have Heal Check where no time can be afforded to go DPSing.