The Healer DPS Problem, The Toxicity it incites

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I never get the design philosophy Where healer needs to contribute to dps check. I admit l am biased because l used to play warcraft and l also play gw2 right now. After l looked at a parse after a gw2 raid, l see a dps did like 10 times more damage than me, and my friends told me that's normal because as a support, my job is to keep people alive and maintain their offensive buffs. I feel that's how healer/support should be...

I bolded a small part of your reply as one of the many reasons why we spend so much time dealing damage. There's simply nothing else to contribute meaningfully once adequate healing is satisfied 90% of time.

[Ivtrix]

And this should confuse someone for 4 years of playing?

No

This is why I avoid any healer conversation because trying to converse with specific users on this forum is like bashing my skull into a brick wall

[TaleraRistain]

Also, every healer should get a trait so that the second they are in a party they loose all DPS capabilities.

This would cripple Sage.

[IDontPetLalas]

This would cripple Sage.

True, but it could provide a cure for insomnia in some cases. Queue as a healer, no healing required? Nothing to do but stand around? Problem solved.

[Zeastria]

True, but it could provide a cure for insomnia in some cases. Queue as a healer, no healing required? Nothing to do but stand around? Problem solved.

Or The game could actually just inc the dmg in it's content..
- More raid-wide DMG.
- Boss's auto atk dmg inc by 40-50+%.
- More unavoidable dmg / random damage.
- More Debuffs to dispel - mechanics that revolves around healers to solve...

/// Make healer use their full healer toolkit..

[AwesomeJr44]

holy moly what a self out

lmao

How can one take that long to figure out such basic information? HOW?!?

This is why mentors exist, to help people like him. I'd do it myself if I didn't know that he's allergic to help.

[ASkellington]

Or The game could actually just inc the dmg in it's content..
- More raid-wide DMG.
- Boss's auto atk dmg inc by 40-50+%.
- More unavoidable dmg / random damage.
- More Debuffs to dispel - mechanics that revolves around healers to solve...

/// Make healer use their full healer toolkit..

We've been telling that to the dev team. Its been two expansions. If you think they'll change their mind in 7.0 you're going to be disappointed.

[Supersnow845]

Or The game could actually just inc the dmg in it's content..
- More raid-wide DMG.
- Boss's auto atk dmg inc by 40-50+%.
- More unavoidable dmg / random damage.
- More Debuffs to dispel - mechanics that revolves around healers to solve...

/// Make healer use their full healer toolkit..

I’m gonna start a drinking campaign of my own

Take a drink any time a forum user suggests a “fix” to the game that is literally just coils

[SamSmoot]

Healers shouldn't have to heal? In about 60% of the roulettes I join, I'm frantically trying to keep the tank alive, and I'm lucky if I have time to DPS at all.

[Supersnow845]

Healers shouldn't have to heal? In about 60% of the roulettes I join, I'm frantically trying to keep the tank alive, and I'm lucky if I have time to DPS at all.

Honestly that either says more about you or you just have a string of really bad tanks

9 dungeons out of 10 I never have to touch a GCD heal and of those 9 5 of them I’m barely even touching an oGCD because the tank is healing themself anyway