(06-25-2014, 11:34 AM)Garryson Wrote: First, to the whole "Healer DPS" thing, I'm going to advocate more of the other side. I'm a full-time tank, and I have died because the healer chose to DPS then couldn't get me back up. (This is due to big pulls, I don't have crappy gear or anything) The most common I see is "Oh, I'll Holy until they're low then use Benediction." Dead.
Again, I'm tank and healer, and as a Healer I've been guilty of letting a tank die once or twice because I was DPSing. It happens, just like tanks forgetting Oath/Defiance. But in my experience spamming expert roulettes for animus and novus, I notice those tanks who drop during sac pulls are almost always the tanks that don't buff. They'll throw out maybe a convalescence and they're done. Liiiiiiike, really? Gimme a rampart or a vengeance or something to work with here.
Granted, during sac pulls, the healer's priority is stabilizing your tank. For SCH this is usually Rouse + Adlo. Just by doing that it gives me enough time to get off a Swiftcast Shadowflare and Miasma II on the whole sac pull. When there's a few less mobs out I can swap to Cleric and do my full DoT rotation and bane it around.
But I politely disagree. I think DPS is actually a part of the Healers job, just as Enmity and Mitigation and DPS is a part of a tank's. 10/23 of your SCH skills are DPS skills and 7/22 for WHM. You shouldn't be ignoring an average 40% of your skill list, since its a good portion of your job. By adding to your Party's overall DPS output on small groups, bosses, and sac pulls, you hasten kill times which equals less damage that your tank/party ends up taking. The longer that sac pull takes to kill, the more likely your tank is going to go down and you're going to run out of MP. This is of course within reason, if you don't think you can keep your tank up and do DPS, don't DPS until it's safe. But to me, a healer who never DPSes is like a tank who never uses buffs.
