A question about healing!

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Respectfully, I disagree with you on basically every point.

The biggest favor you can do yourself is to tackle fights with an idea of just healing.

Approaching things with so skittish an attitude will surely lead you to miss opportunities to DPS, and in all likelihood build bad habits in healing (typically by overhealing or healing when it will be nullified soon after). Instead, I would advocate looking at every fight with a mindset of "Do I need to heal this, or can I let it be?"

The first time into something, assuming you're completely blind, assume the worst and act accordingly, but take note of what happens - did I need to top everyone up after that raid-wide, or can I leave it to tools like Asylum? If a heavy raid-wide comes up afterward that executes anybody left low, you need to heal quickly, but on the other hand there might be a mechanic that sets everyone's HP to 1, nullifying all the healing you just did. If there's nothing for a long time except dodging, can you trust your party to dodge properly? In Duty Finder I'd likely say 'no', but if I'm playing with my friends I'd just tell them not to stand in fire.

By keeping this mindset, your focus is set on quickly finding the most efficient way to heal an encounter. This most-efficient way will, by the nature of healing, have the most space for DPS, and so by focussing on healing well you are also indirectly optimising your damage output.

(Split into two posts due to the extremely-limited character count, apologies)