How scared should I be about DPS?

[Sumizu]

I haven't gotten to the the hardest content yet, but from my personal experience so far I like to DPS as healer too just because it's boring to stand there and watch health bars go down or maybe occasionally dodge some AoEs. If everyone's topped up on health and won't be dying anytime soon, heck, I'll Stone or Holy some mobs if I want to >:v Besides, outside of a boss you have more than enough MP to both DPS and heal.

However, DPS as healer is by no means necessary and let nobody tell you otherwise. DPS is certainly welcomed, to help speed things up but if someone criticizes you because you haven't been doing any then give them a kick in the shin on my behalf and carry on doing you. I mean, until they somehow come out with a healer class that lets you heal based on outputted damage, it should be optional that a healer do anything other than heal.

[Taika]

However, DPS as healer is by no means necessary and let nobody tell you otherwise.

A lot of the highest level content in this game has indeed required healers to DPS for the party to meet the DPS requirements. As in the rest of your group can have fully melded highest item level available gear on them and be the best players of their class in the whole world, and they still would not be able to clear the fight if their healers do 0 DPS. It is extremely misleading to claim healer DPS is "just a bonus" or "not necessary" in this game.

And once again, even if the healer DPS would not be strictly required, it's not fair to make your tanks and DDs push 90% efficiency and activity while allowing your healers to stay far from that.

There isn't even need for contradiction, why are you trying to do that healer DPS discussion over again ?

I am not trying to start another discussion, but I also don't like seeing people spreading misinformation. Since this thread is started by a healer new to healing in this game, and quite possibly read by many people in similar position, it's not good if they get the false image that healer DPS is just "something nice" and not something that's a vital part of playing their job and rightfully expected from them (the level of the expectation depending on the difficulty level of the content they're taking part in). It's a shame if newbie raid healers walk into Savage expecting the other party members to carry the responsibility of beating the enrage timer without them because they have been given a false impression.

Having read the OP, and now again before typing this reply, the topic of discussion includes how players see the role of DPS in healer play, and knowing if it's needed or not and in which content is certainly a part of it.

[Vyriah]

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This was talked times, and times, and times.
It's a bonus, the same way mitigation or raise from a DPS is. That doesn't say anything about how decisive it is for clearing a fight early in the patch (wich is a way to play the game, something you do because you want to, not a neccessity).

The actual subject was about angry player fighting over healer DPS, and was answered with 3 full pages of "most people don't care that much". There isn't even need for contradiction, why are you trying to do that healer DPS discussion over again ?