A question about healing!

[Saefinn]

It may be boring, but at the same time. They are playing at their own pace..and a healer not DPSing in a dungeon won't result in a wipe..at least so far I haven't seen in my entire time of playing this game. But who knows..I can not speak for everyone. But anyways, I say it's not necessary because it truly isn't. I also said they can ease their way into it when they are comfortable. It is better to tell someone that than to say it is expected all the time. I use to be a healer that was extremely nervous to DPS. Until someone told me the exact same thing. Now, I DPS all the time. It doesn't hurt to be truthful to someone that is new than to give them this impression that it's DPS or be severely punished for it. Which sadly..I have seen far too many times on this forum.

I very much agree here. I think the concept can seem scary to somebody who has little to no confidence, but there's oodles of space to build it before it becomes an issue.

I think my only requirement is that people aren't being lazy. If there's less or no DPS from the healer because they're new and aren't confidence enough to manage the two, I say "no worries".

But I think when there's only a handful of healing abilities too and if you've got the core understanding of how to heal, it could be good practice to throw in DPS attacks before that kit expands too, rather than trying to learn it when you've got more to juggle.