Quote Originally Posted by Luna-M View Post
Look, I'm not disagreeing but at the same time, it's a thin line to getting toxic if you force someone do something they didn't sign up for.
I agree with you that it's getting toxic if you force someone to do something they didn't sign up for. However, if you go to class change into a conjurer in the game, E-sumi tells you specifically that you're not playing healer right if you aren't DPSing as well as healing. To become a conjurer you get this long explanation of what conjury entails.

"Adventurers such as yourself oft stand upon the front lines of a battle. Owing to this, you are like to find yourself in many situations wherein a capacity for healing would be advantageous. Mind you, there is more to conjury than that. By harnessing the power of earth, wind, and water, conjurers are also capable of weaving spells that wreak havoc. In terms of Sheer destructive power, conjury may pale in comparison to thaumaturgy, but its capacity to defend one against aggression more than compensates for this relative shortcoming.

More than simply healers, yet not true dealers of destruction, conjurers realize their full potential when they employ their powers in support of others. This, my dear adventurer, is what it means to be one of us."

Essentially, he's saying although conjurers can't do as much DPS as other actual DPS jobs, they aren't supposed to be just a healer who can't fight back at all either. They only reach their full potential as a healer if they DPS and heal in a party because all their abilities will be utilized to the maximum to cover for those who don't have as potent healing abilities while they themselves can also fight.

Then you get the whole conjurer storyline quest explaining why a conjurer shouldn't be just using cure and should also be using aero and stone. So yes, a healer in this game is a combat medic, and not making the attempt to DPS at all while everyone's healthy when a large portion of the beginning parts of the game teaches you to do so make others think the healer is trolling or ridiculously bad at the game. It feels as bad as a DPS who doesn't use their full skillset and a tank who doesn't mitigate when tanking, so someone else have to pull that extra weight instead.


So technically, they did sign up for a job that aren't just pure healers and have that specific role to be DPSing, just to a lesser extent than the others.