Some of the healers big DPS attacks or racial’s like for the light forged will top out the DPS meters.
I am too scared to do current content with a healer, but I do healers in leveling up to 70.
Disc Priest is my favorite because it’s kind of implied that you’re doing damage as well as healing. Often when I’m chasing after a demon hunter tank and a bunch of paladins doing DPS I really don’t have anything to do other than assist them with DPS because they have great self heals.
I’ll gladly pump dps as soon as every single dps I’m running with learns how to use their defensive toolkit, interrupt, stun, cc, mitigate, and not stand in nearly every puddle, frontal, and aoe known to player kind.
The amount of cds just chilling and unused on omnicd is pretty ick.
Most players: what’s an alter time? What’s an AMZ? What’s darkness? Etc etc.
The expectation is that healers should know how to play the game. Knowing how to play the game involves healing when healing is needed, and doing damage when healing is not needed. If you’re using time you could spend doing damage to just AFK and stare at folks’ healthbars, you are not playing a healer correctly.
But when they introduce healing checks, 99% of the community fails spectacularly at them. In dungeons/m+, this is gg no re because there’s only 1 healer
I.e. hyrja in HoV
Yep. Funny how when this mentality started to take off in the forums I start to see a lot of complaints about lack of healers queueing up. How InTeReStInG. 
thank you for making this 100% original thread about a real and pressing issue in WoW. i am positive that the resulting discussion will be truly civil and productive
If you want me to dps then buff my pathetic resto druid damage, give me the power I had back in BFA because as it is now im not gonna bother shooting peanuts for 9 k dps
At the end of the day, the system works perfectly fine weeding these kind of players out.
Don’t want to cast a single DPS spell the entire dungeon as a healer? Well, no high rating for you. You’re going to get benched and say bye-bye to your achieves and mounts, because you’re not welcomed in my group.
Keep in mind I AM A HEALER, and I consistently do 42-46k dps overall EVERY. SINGLE. DUNGEON. and can prove it too. I expect everyone to work together as a team for the collective good.
Always have been.
No one said that. It’s when you aren’t trying to keep the group healed you dps.
There is always downtime at some point.
-Sincerely, a healer
Didn’t we already address this issue ?? If anyone asks or demands you DPS and heal. Put them on ignore and group with those of us that will appreciate you just healing us.
If you have downtime as any role that could be filled and you don’t fill it, you’re playing poorly.
That’s all it comes down to.
Imma just keep white hitting neutral mobs and gg.
Healers being good healers isn’t a new expectation. Healers should be tossing in dps between heals and tanks/dps should be doing off-heals/cc/etc when applicable as well. If you don’t, then you not good at gaming. Sorry not sorry.
Do you want my help with Afflicted?
Zzz healers dpsing isn’t that hard my lord, besides hardly any healer here has the ability to have 100% full health parties at all times anyway. Tossing ina few damage spells when there is low income damage IS preventive healing since the mob dies faster.
Healers always did dps even since classic OG vanilla to say otherwise is silly. Wand dps/Seals/auto attacks or passive dps like Flame shock.
Y’all just keep on tryna get Blizzard to Monkey Paw around with more healy things.
I LOL so hard at your idiotic post. I have never had a tank heal anyone on purpose. It does not happen. By your own logic , You should be bandaging everyone after you hit your 4 cooldowns. LOL … LOL …
are u goofy or just never ran with a prot pal
You just sit there and auto-attack in your groups and it shows. 