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

[Supersnow845]

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 im always below 10% HP. I mostly hate it cause THOSE 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.

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.

If you think that people who do damage on healers are also your freestyle DPS players then I’m not sure what to tell you honestly, doing damage as a healer shows you know how to play the game, it’s why we have weave spots on our nuke spells, because of oGCD’s. Your freestyle SAM’s are also your zero DPS healers. This is to say nothing of heals that actually benefit from a tank being lower, ED, excog and benediction all benefit from the tank being lower with taurochole and holos getting more benefit assuming the upfront heal is not wasted. Keeping a tank lower for damage shows you understand the tanks, if a WAR is at 20% but I know bloodwhetting is coming in about 5 seconds then he can sit at 20% and heal himself, same as GNB with not excog or DRK with his invuln

And on the subject of raid enrage timers, a zero DPS healer is only going to be carried by DPS gear bloat, the two healers combined do about 20% of the raids damage, you are not clearing at min ilvl 20% damage down, no matter how well your DPS perform, even at BIS zero DPS healer clears are tight