Quote Originally Posted by Elladie View Post
I am an ABC healer. I always have been, even when CS was a thing and I was learning SCH and stance dancing made me nervous. If I'm not healing, I sneak in some DPS.

But this is what I don't get about everyone complaining about healers who stand around doing nothing. The only runs I have where I spend the majority of my time DPS-ing as a healer are runs I do with my Trusts. If I'm in a dungeon with people, the tank pulls loads, the DPS take damage, I count myself lucky if I manage to throw in any DoTs. I mean I Holy as much as I can, but that's only effective for mitigating damage the first few casts; after that everything gets a bit hair-raising. I really don't get all that much opportunity to use Art of War on SCH. Yeah on bosses I can DPS more, but I don't spend anything like 60% of my time with nothing to do (if I don't DPS). Even more so on AST.

So my question is, where are all these amazing dungeon runners that only need a minimum of healing and why are they never in my parties?
I've never needed an amazing tank or DPS to be able to DPS as a healer, I just know my kit well enough to know how to get the most out of it. I also know a tank doesn't need to have every booboo kissed away, same for a DPS. If a DPS is missing 50% HP, but they're not taking damage and won't for awhile, why bother wasting the time to heal, just let natural regens and fairy handle it. I've had plenty of window lickers in my dungeon runs, and I'll still find the time to DPS. SCH is probably one of the best at dungeons, you can cast an oGCD heal in between every single art of war. WHM holy spam will stop a pull for at least a third of their casts, if not more.