It is not possible to play without doing dps as healer? every day i find someone...

[FakeCirka]

(A) To quote the famous Jocat: dps is mitigating future damage

Everyone watched his video and went on a rampage of healers must do DPS > Healing, as long as they are above 1 hp they are fine. I know when I tank I hate when healers are stingy on heals and I'm worried I'm gonna die because I'm always below 10% HP. I mostly hate it cause THOSE (Edit due to someone not understanding English - Those as in the healers who keep you below 10% HP) types of healers tend to let me die lol, but what ever, to each their own. I personally DPS when I am playing my healer, and often times, sadly, I "know" I out DPS other DPS classes lol, so I know healers can do some pretty nice damage. That being said, I don't agree with how far most players take the whole "Healer have to DPS". I feel like if thats allowed, then healers should be allowed to complain about DPS' using improper rotations and having poor DPS in the first place.

I've played raid content with healers who don't DPS and we've still beat the enrage timer. Most of the time when a enrage timer isn't beat its because the DPS are not doing proper rotations, but most people would rather just blame others of course so if they see a healer not doing DPS, thats who gets blamed. *Edit* That being said, healers really should be doing DPS in Savage content or any form of high end content, it only makes sense. (Have to add this in for a specific snow flake who cannot read properly due to being ESL - This is NOT me saying Healers should not be expected to DPS in raid content, just pointing out the literal mathematical fact that it can be downed without a healer doing DPS). For other forms of content, such as MSQ dungeons, trials, or even alliance raids, well they are most likely not performing their best either.

Dealing DPS is nice if you can pull it off, it will make you a better player of course being able to multi-task between focusing on damaging the boss and also keeping your group alive. It will teach you how to properly weave OGCDs which is important for every job in this game. Not everyone has the skill or ability to do it though, so I don't feel like theres a need for anyone to complain about it, especially when its in normal content. The same people who call out healers for that stuff would cry and report if someone said the same thing about their dps being low due to rotation. Its just hypocritical.

At the end of the day, SE themselves state a healers job is to keep the party alive. If you are doing that, regardless if you are able to contribute DPS or not, you are doing your job.