(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.
On a lot of pulls, yes, tanks take little damage and throwing in DPS is fine and hey makes it go a little quicker. But at the end of the day, DPS is not the healer's job. If I have PUG healers that don't DPS, its usually because they're still learning. This game has become needlessly hostile to people actually learning their roles who have the audacity to run without a full pre-made party.
Not that I'm against healers ever throwing in DPS, I just don't really care how much they do it or not.
Gonna chime in and say I agree. I think healers DPSing is being bull-poopy, at least for WHM's. DPS isn't our job--hence us being healers, not DPS. One of few exceptions is when you're a level 50 running lowbie dungeons--then you have plenty of breathing room to DPS. Otherwise, you should focus on mana management and keeping the party topped off. You never know when someone might fail to dodge an AOE and nearly be one-shot. You have to be ready to heal any time, so you shouldn't get yourself stuck casting DPS spells in Cleric Stance or run out of OoM. The damage you do as a healer is so minimal that your efforts are usually better spent healing. If the DPS in your party aren't undergeared or just bad, they should be killing mobs at a decent speed regardless and you shouldn't be required to help them do their own job.
I never DPS as WHM and I have to say I've gotten my fair share of compliments and commendations. On the other hand, when I've leveled tank and DPS alts, I've been in parties where people have died or we've even wiped because the healer decided they were more interested in DPSing than healing and forgot to pay attention to HP bars or wasted all their mana. For the love of all that is good, if you're a WHM please don't DPS unless you know what you're doing and you have absolutely nothing else to do. Let people complain that you aren't DPSing (though I've never seen that happen in a dungeon, at least not on just trash mobs). DPSing isn't your job.
(Exceptions being stuff like Titan's Heart, Garuda's plumes, the bombs in Brayflox HM, etc. Anything that needs to be killed in a certain time limit or it will wipe the party, you can certainly assist with attacking.)
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