Quote Originally Posted by Luna-M View Post
I'm bit 50-50 on this subject.

While I personally DPS as much I can on healer regardless of content (i don't do savage though). And encourage people do it too.

But

I don't think every healer should be -forced- into it (especially if they not comfortable with it or unsure) unless we talk about said savage and endgame content. In normal-casual content such as Roulette's, it a nice bonus but hardly a deal breaker for the other 3 people to kill the boss.

Again, should be encouraged but never forced or being harassed for not doing it except in certain scenarios.
Healers that don't DPS are healers that are afk for 50-75% of an instance. That's unacceptable in any content. I'd argue it's even worse in content at Extreme level or easier, as that content has much, much less healing to do.

If a tank or DPS decided to do nothing half the time, it wouldn't matter what their excuse would be. They'd be seen as dead weight, lazy, selfish, trolling, etc. They would be kicked, maybe have a few reports thrown in there. I don't see how expecting a healer to DPS in that 50-75% downtime is "forcing" them to do anything. It's part 2 of the easiest role in the game: Keep people alive, then help kill the boss.

If they don't wanna feel "forced" to play properly, there are a ton of other MMOs that fulfill the "always healing" healer fantasy.