General Community Resistant to Healer Damage?

[Billythepancake]

I don't mind when healers DPS.

I object to attitudes about healer DPS when it's:

A) expected in all situations regardless of anything else that may be a consideration;
B) I have to play with healers who prioritize DPS over healing (and usually cause deaths/wipes).

I don't care if anyone wants to DPS as a healer, as long as healing is still their main priority.

I bring this up every time there's a debate about healer dps, but not all healers are created equal, and not all of us are comfortable dpsing all the time in every single situation--which should be fine--! but people get hellbent sometimes that a healer HAS to be dpsing or they're a "bad" healer, throwing literally every other bit of reasoning out the window for it.

Some healers aren't very well geared, some of their tanks are badly geared. Sometimes groups struggle with mechanics and the healer has to compensate (Every mechanic becomes a healer mechanic on a long enough time line!) and the healer dpsing just isn't always feasible, and I wish more people understood that.

I consider a healer that does 0 DPS bad in the same sense I consider a RDM that only spams jolt bad, or a DPS that only uses autos bad. Will it get you through the basic content? Sure, eventually, but it makes things take substantially longer. Healer DPS is nothing to scoff at right now, they're out DPSing tanks, (on a personal note, in a lot of my personal roulettes I've, allegedly, out DPSed a lot of the DPS too.) and if they're just spamming a level 1 cure they''re playing extremely poorly.

That's not to say I really care when I'm just doing roulettes, but it's hard not to notice.

As for Healer DPS not being a factor in clearing casual content? No duh, even DPS damage isn't a factor in clearing basic content. You could have a SAM use 2 GCDs the entire dungeon run and still clear it. Doesn't mean it's something to condone or something that shouldn't be pointed out. Maybe I'm of a different mindset though. I've never gotten upset when someone told me ways I could improve, or what I could be doing better, yet, when I've tried to tell a WHM that they shouldn't spam Medica II for every single heal they lashed out at me and wouldn't stop going on about what an "elistist" I am.