How scared should I be about DPS?

[miraidensetsu]

So I have to admit, I'm coming from the steam forums where people are....opinionated? But while I know healer DPS is something you should do because it makes the job less boring and helps your team. There was a guy over there that kept claiming that healing DPS is a bonus and your main role is to heal, so you should focus on that before worrying about DPS.

Healer DPS is a bonus. The healer's role is to heal, indeed and that's why you are on the group to begin with.

But every bonus is welcome (specially on savage/ultimate).

But two others kept shouting him down and saying they blacklist lazy healers who aren't doing their absolute best. I am just now starting to get my gear into I guess a decent place, since I can run all the raids with my gear score. How stressed should I be about putting out top DPS as a healer? Because frankly in roulettes sometimes even when I focus on healing it's all I can do to keep groups up, let alone worrying about trying to put out top DPS.

That discussion should be made with your group. The people here will say that you doing top percentile DPS is the bare minimum for being a decent healer, but your group can have a top DPS that lessen the need of focusing that much on DPS. Or the group is still learning the fight and you are their safety net and should focus more on healing and only DPSing when there are no heal to do. On the end of the day, the only person who can accurately answer that question of your is you, based on the cards you have at hand.

And don't give that much attention to what they say. They have good tips to share, true, but "if opinion were good, it would be sold, not given".

[Taika]

The people here will say that you doing top percentile DPS is the bare minimum for being a decent healer

Having actually read this thread, I'm pretty sure the opposite of this is what "the people here" have been saying.

[Vyriah]

Having actually read this thread, I'm pretty sure the opposite of this is what "the people here" have been saying.

Most of the thread seem off the point though. I think that's because no one really knows about TSW and Rift.
I'm pretty sure anyone coming from those absurdly open game-system MMO is gonna be mechanically scared of doing DPS in FF XIV(outside the absence of double targetting wich is in both of my Rift memories are not too hazy).

It was more a question about the player community.
And the only answer is that some people just want to be angry anyway, no matter how you actually perform.