Quote Originally Posted by Billythepancake View Post
Nobody will ever convince me DPSing as a healer is a bad thing. Or even that it's a bad thing that it's a huge chunk of what you do. You're on the front lines with everyone else. Yes your job is to patch people up, but your job is also to deal damage.

What's the best way to heal? Make sure your men don't get hurt in the first place. What's the best way to prevent your men from getting hurt? Kill the guy trying to hurt them. Yes, patch up your men if they do get hurt, but they're big boys, they can handle a few scrapes and bruises before you need to do that.
Having come from 9 years of healing in wow to 14 back in the day was a bit jarring at first because of how different the healing structure was. But even in wow you end up dropping healers for dps as your group gets more comfortable with the content. Healing as little as possible or with as few healers has possible has always been the trend in mmos, this isn’t going to change because such a small % of a playerbase don’t like it.

But aside from that, the healing in 14 has always been (for the most part) this way. It’s just how design encounter is in this game. I know it’s a bummer if you don’t like like doing damage as a healer, but how many years has this game been out now? I don’t think that will be changing anytime soon.