I think the bigger problem is when healers are given a DPS expectation considering some healers have passive damage while healing and some do not, some have to stop healing to DPS.
Of course if your group is paying attention and not getting blown up that is much easier.
Thatâs the only time weâre asking you to do it.
Itâs like Iâm eating crazy flakes where everybody completely misses the point
LOL⊠I donât heal. Healing is for people that like abuse. I kill player pixels not fix them.
Feral form for Resto 
I have met healers in FF that legit donât think its important to even consider healing until the party is almost dead. Itâs a mad house over there.
My goal as a healer is to make sure you are so safe, that you donât even notice how good of a job I am doing.
Crap, called out, yeah Iâm a part time massochist going full time.
I do think a lot of these people that complain about healers not doing damage are a bit spoiled. Once you get the healers that donât heal or arenât good at healing, you grow an appreciation for a good healer. This coming from someone that has had dungeons where Iâve kited mobs around in circles at 10% health waiting for a heal and never get one
I tend to get noticed because they see DPS and health bars arenât wonky and going up and down like a yo-yo. DK is too much sling shotting health bars, canât really do anything for them though, their fate is cast. Either they good or the raid/party dead. lol.
In a world where DPS spells cost a meaningful amount of mana, youâd have a point. But retail WoW is not that world. Not even for Arcane mage.
Will it also place the blame for any deaths squarely on the shoulders of healers?
âWhy did we die?â
âyou were all standing in the fireâ
âSo itâs the healerâs fault.â
âMy fault? But you were the ones not doing mechanics!â
âYou had one job. Healing. ⊠ItÊ»s your fault.â
let us hope not.
That is just a healer that canât micro manage or watch multiple things at once. Iâve had those types too. Its not a good time. I canât say Iâve ever had issues with it, but I learned from a few players on ragnaros who pulled all the mobs plus boss when I was learning HPAL way back when. No mercy for my mana at all lmao. By the end of the dungeon I was looking at around 15% mana. That is with maybe 1-2 deaths at most if any. But yeah no room for that, either youâre hitting buttons or everyone is dead.
They can say whatever they want, but the new talents only increased most healers ability to do damage not reduced it in anyway.
There is a point with gear where you just donât have to heal for most of an encounter/m+, that hasnât changed.
That is exactly what Iâm saying. My mana bar doesnât move lol. Its made it easier to dps and keep people topped off. Some boss fights might require CDâs but after the unavoidable damage its back to putting my dots on the boss and then healing rotation after.
Anyone else get that healer where youâre at like 20% health and they put a rejuv on you and theyâre like youâre good.
That one rejuv will top you off no problem
What my buddy did in high keys when he combusted. âStand in FIRE FOR HASTE BUFFâ ⊠so painful lol.
Rejuvâ> swift mendâ> (regrowth if needed) But my current build makes my rejuvs pretty strong so its kinda like a passive regrowth at a faster rate.
There is a world of difference between âhealers should do DPS because there is not healing needing to be done and DPS done to the mob means the run is done soonerâ to âthe key has failed because the healer did not DPSâ.
Fact - Healers SHOULD NOT be healing when there is minimal damage being taken
Fact - ALL HEALERS have very low or no cost DPS buttons
Fact - Mana regeneration is not impacted at all by casting spells
Fact - All damage done to the mob decreases its HP.
Given all the objective hard truth facts above, you can not make an argument why healers should not be tossing out damage when there is nothing to heal. NOBODY is suggesting that healers should only DPS and not healâŠthatâs a crap strawman bad healers want to toss into the mix and act like what is being argued. No. The simple fact of the matter is you should be doing âsomethingâ every GCD with healing a critical health party member or preparing a cooldown to survive some big tank or party buster as top priorities and DPSing a priority target as the next priority. Under no scenario is âsitting around doing nothingâ the correct course of action with the worst option being âoverhealing and blowing mana I may need in the future or will need to stop the run to drink and recover backâ.
Healers heal. Tanks tank. Dps does damage. If you need the minor damage that a healer puts out, then your dps isnât doing their damn job, and you either need to get better dps or keep your cakehole shut when you end up dead from lack of healing. Itâs really that simple.
Semper Fi! 
You can do whatever you want in your lfr, donât worry about it.
I already have countless times
Which I disagree with because itâs not good play
A lot of times in endgame content sitting around as a healer is the right thing to be doing. This has been a thing in WoW since its creation.
I never said to overheal because that eats too much mana