Solution to healers not dpsing in dungeons

[HoodRat]

I don't remember once comparing DPSing to standing around doing nothing.

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Tanks can DPS simultaneously while doing their job of gaining hate. We have to stop healing to DPS...That being said I am a DPSing healer, just wanted to stop the ridiculousness of these flawed comparisons.

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I have seen several people defend healers who stand around doing absolutely nothing when they don't need to heal.

Or worse, a secondary/tertiary tank in 8/24 mans that doesn't do anything while there's nothing for him to tank.

Neither of us said anything at all about dps yet here you are saying our comparisons are flawed because healers have to stop healing to dps. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Again, a healer standing around doing nothing is monitoring health, mob moves, navigating mechanics that will wipe us instantly due to our substantially lower health pools and being on the ready at any moment to make up for the mistakes of others.

No, a healer standing around doing nothing is standing around doing nothing. Look at Frizze's post, they claim they tunnel vision and yet they still look at more than what you claim healers do when they're standing around doing nothing. It just makes zero sense to me why people are trying to lower the bar of acceptable play here.