A question about healing!

[IDontPetLalas]

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.

We all have our own personal experiences, but I have seen (albeit extremely rarely) where the only DPS left was yours truly (the healer) and the tank, and while I give full credit to said tank- he would not have been able to solo the boss with both DPS floor-tanking.

That being said - my response was not to say that someone new to healer should think about doing better DPS that the DPS in there party. In fact, I clearly am saying - if you are new- add DPS slowly as you learn to heal.

Your last line expresses it extremely well.

If someone says that people are severely punished for not DPSing on the forums? I'm sure we can find all kinds of opinions, but the majority of people that I've talked to would expect both DPS and healing from a healer who has some knowledge of a dungeon, and outside of specific content that most players don't ever touch they aren't very demanding at that. As long as the party is alive we just have 3 simple DPS buttons to hit and perhaps 1 buff or debuff. It really isn't onerous. I just have to look at my summoner in comparison (that DPS rotation is a nightmare imo).