Quote Originally Posted by Vahlnir View Post
I mean, as far as healers go...if it's between multitasking and failing to keep people alive and just straight healing I'd have to go with the latter instead of the former. Good healers can juggle, but I do think some people are simply better off healing only. I've seen more than a few healers who have tried to dps and couldn't keep their party members alive. Thankfully not a majority, or at least not in my experience. But still, I agree that healers should be able to do both. Tanks can do the same when it comes to threat generation and dps.
The part for me with healers that don't dps are the ones that wont even if there is no damage going out but there's a dps check happening. That was and has been defended as being ok by some in some of the old healer dps threads. Like during the dps phase against Diablos in Dun Scathe or other instances like it.