Quote Originally Posted by Fyce View Post
People like you use the word "optionnal" as an excuse to be lazy. To be carried. To do three to four times less work than the other members of the group.
Not doing jack in your group is worthy of a kick. Get that right in your head.

If you think that doing the bare minimum is fine, then be ready to have a surprise when other people think it's not.

But keep insulting everyone of being "idiots" and "morons" if you want. I mean, that's pretty much the only thing you can do anyway.
In all honesty, would you really consider playing this game "work"? Seems like most people think the game is ez-mode enough as is... which doesn't exactly motivate people to try lol. Seems like people should be questioning the devs more on the meta than the way players understandably view the healer role. Optional is still optional, doesn't change the truth about it. Some do use it as an excuse, but that's no different than a DPS that is just spamming one action or a tank that doesn't properly tank since they would still fulfill their role.

That's all stuff that is generally done by intent though, as it should be clear that there are three camps involved with healers on this subject. Healers that play optimally and DPS while healing, healers that only want to heal, and healers that usually know better but are intentionally looking to be carried. Obviously the last is the biggest problem and related to my reference to bad DPS and tanks. It's the other two though that should make you question the meta. If DPS is forever going to be it, with no intent to make healing a nearly full-time necessity, I'd seriously be in favor of automating most healing. As in most non-raid related content would be able to be healed through fine with secondary effects on healer DPS actions, akin to a SCH currently being able to have the fairy most of the healing.