Quote Originally Posted by RichardButte View Post
This is one of the more polite examples I've seen:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-who-don-t-DPS
I think what some people have tried to tell you is that even though people complain on the forums they are just the very vocal minority. Even I complain a little because it irks me to see a healer jumping around when they have nothing to heal, but I never harass anyone in-game for it. Coming to the forums to rant is usually very different from how people act in-game.

In-game no one really bothers others with these issues. It happens sometimes, but I can tell you right now I've only had one instance of someone mentioning my healer DPS in 4 years of playing this game and I have actually never seen another healer harassed about DPS either. I have been active most of those 4 years too. (this is strictly speaking of casual content though everything but savage raiding)

In savage raiding is usually the only place healers may get confronted about their play if they do not contribute some DPS as a healer, but savage raiding (during it's release) is the hardest content the game offers so if someone will not even attempt to learn to use their full toolkit in savage raids then some groups may decide to remove a player like that. Like Taika said O3S and O4S DPS checks are very harsh so most groups need a decent amount of healer DPS to clear it with the current item level available to us at the moment.

Savage raiding every role needs to be using almost their whole toolkit, healers should not be exempt from that.