General Community Resistant to Healer Damage?

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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?

It comes down to pushing your own limits and making mistakes along the way. What I did when I started healing was I worked on letting people get as low as I possible could before using a heal. Many people died in the process but it is a learning curve sure I got a lot of shit for it at the start but I ignored them and kept going against my basic instinct to keep people topped off or even start healing when someone drops below 50%. I learned when I needed to heal and when I didn't based off the situation and even group. Now even with a horrible tank I can still spend a large percentage of my time doing damage. Unless I run into a horrible tank with horrible gear, doing large pulls and standing in everything. I personally am not good enough to heal through that while still being able to do damage but I have seen healers that can, and it is amazing to watch.