Quote Originally Posted by Azurarok View Post
So then I've been thinking, why are GCD heals (that aren't lilies, and even that's relatively recent) designed to be a dps loss? I know if a party member's dead that's a worse drop and all, but it still feels like we're being punished for doing what the role is supposed to do.
Ye typical GCD heal always being a DPS loss is true only under a bad accounting scheme.

The question is always: What is better for the party's total DPS, me tossing out a GCD heal or me tossing out another stone? If the answer is "GCD heal", and I toss out a GCD heal, any accounting scheme that fails to credit me with a positive rDPS contribution for that heal is imperfect at best and broken at worst.