Dear PLDs

[Nedkel]

Nedkel: Healer dps is a thing. It's been a thing for years. Everyone from high-end raiders to filthy casuals, does it. It makes runs faster and it gives healers something to do other than play whack-a-mole with your health bar. You're not going to get into any kind of meaningful endgame content by insisting that they just nursemaid you. No static or FC will take you raiding with that attitude, and duty finder and party finder groups will punt you in a hot second if you mention your interesting theories about what healers should do. You just have to learn to deal, chum. This is the way it is.

It seems like the only option to do so is to stop using any deffensive spells at all.
It hurt the guts if i see 1 cure spell casted in 10-15 seconds period of time when im running out of cd's, mana for drain and TBN as drk to keep myself alive with 3 groups pull.

You can predict when your tanks health is going to drop super easily. The only time ypu can't is when you don't know the content or the tank is super bad. And if the tank is bad I'm not gonna sit there and baby sit them. I'll tell them how they need to shape up and if they refuse I'd sooner kick them.

Does a tank dying makes him bad or a healer bad? You could only sustain yourself as a tank so long, cant hold the breath for eternity.
You are not asked by the game to do dps in 90% of the game content, its not needed, my complaints are there.

If you're taking so much damage that the healer always has zero DPS uptime, you're likely slowing the run down, not speeding it up. Holy is still the absolute best mitigation in the game besides your own Hallowed Ground, and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon.

If you're using the DF, you're already taking a gamble on what you're going to get. You never know if you're gonna get a top-tier savage raider or someone who just started the game today and doesn't know anything about half their skills yet. If you always want zero-DPS healers, use the PF instead and mention it in your requirements.

Any healer worth anything is going to try and weave in DPS whenever possible, and especially in the case of WHM, the quest dialogue itself even encourages it early on. I personally have been DPSing the entire time I've been playing WHM. Just because you're dropping low sometimes because of healer DPS, doesn't mean that they don't know what they're doing. Mistakes happen, sure, but its not something you have to go full-on rant about when it does.

I dont have holly ground on DRK, living death is ok, but it kills you anyway.
I dont care if someone is playing for first time or 5 years already, casting cure does not require Faker abilities. I just dont like healers trying to play dps and dont heal, because they see tank holding on his own. When cd's go off i die in a moment, cant help nothing about it, call me bad and stupid, i cant hands up.
It doesnt happen all the time, but still happens every fourth or fifth run, but what happen often is me dropping to like 10% hp for some reasons, how and why?
I have read too much garbage here like "oh healers have so strong heals, they could go make a tea, cast 20 dps spells and then think about casting cure, so excuses of them not dealing any dps are invalid", in which dimension may i ask...

I dont mind healers having fun dealing dps, just asking them to not forget to heal when your tank is pulling 3 groups of mobs and more.
Is that too much to ask? Stop pushing that "healers have to dps or they sucks" agenda everywhere i am sick of it, it is NOT NEEDED in dungeons with 90 minutes timer.
It does not matter if the run will be 1 or 2 minutes faster, when you could make it 5 minutes longer by a mistake, like tank at 30% health and you had to cancel cast to dodge aoe.

As a tank myself i try my best to use cd's, deff spells and etc, and i dont go yolo tank stance off on the pulls or in heavy boss fights, because damage is important and screw that a healer will need to cast cure one after another to keep me alive.