Dear PLDs

[Mavrias]

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.

I see your perspective so let me offer mine. A tank does that massive pull towards the end of Hells' Lid. He doesn't use any cooldowns. The party gets through the pull without any deaths. However, the healer was unable to dps (whether they wanted to or not) because they had to blow all their cooldowns and spam big cures to keep the tank up.

So... Is the tank a fine tank because he didn't die?

Everything is relative to the situation.

A healer can spend the entirety of a pull just making sure the tank doesn't drop below 95%. Does that make them a fine healer? After all, no one died.

When I heal, I like to dps as well. To me, it makes healing more interesting. If you start sweating when you hit 70% and I keep dropping dps spells instead that doesn't make me a bad healer. It makes you a faithless worry wart.

I am the first to admit that I wasn't paying attention if that's indeed the reason someone died. But, it doesn't happen often because as a healer I am more frequently than not looking at the party list rather than whatever enemy we're fighting (raids and like are the exception).

You can be uncomfortable with your healer dpsing. You are a person who's allowed to feel more or less whatever you please. But, you can't reasonably prevent your healer from doing so if that's what they want to do.