I see plenty of people bashing healers and tanks in M+, so I ask them if they tank or heal, usually the answer is “no” if I et an answer at all.
So my question to all the DPS players is: Why not?
Could be as simple as you don’t find it fun, or you don’t want the stress.
Just curious
Well it is significantly easier to just follow rather than lead which is the reason why people dont want to tank.
And with healing it requires you some form of responsibility as well which alot of people dont want.
I guess my comment boils down to people just dont want responsibility hence they dps
I am taking a break from healing. It’s good to do that. I tell you what, as a dps on a couple of different types of classes now, I have discovered a couple of things that could have been handled better in groups that I was healing through before!
I’ll have fun and learn on the way.
I DPS in bear!
Every dps only player would benefit alot from playing healer alot and tank to for that matter. Im kinda weird and unusual i guess from healing 95 % of the time for 15 years. First i dont care for the dps meter i check interrupts and damage taken when i dps. I have alot of focus on the healer and whenever there are lose mobs tank dont notice i sacrifice myself with honor to get them of the healer
Well, I do heal–on other characters. And I have sometimes tanked (totally suck at it). But this is my first character on my own account, and my main, and well, I don’t really have the option to do anything but DPS.
Yeah, there have been times when I’ve saved a wipe by pulling out a tank pet when the tank went down (obviously not any seriously tough content), and back in the day (when First Aid was useful), I sometimes slapped a bandage on a party member. But it’s not my fault if all my character can really do is pew pew.
Because when you’re a good DPS, playing a tank or healer for bad DPS feels so awful. Soloing the last 8M health of a boss as a tank or watching DPS die to the world’s most obvious frontal and blame me for not healing them makes it the opposite of fun.
i do! i play all three roles 
That is so sweet, now i got a flash back from where some people would start to bandage me when i was buisy healing the others. Oh man i miss that!
I don’t find it particularly fun, and then I’m dpsing like 99% of the time. So I’m not practiced at it at all, and would be trolling if I tried to tank or heal because of that. So I expect tanks and healers who main them to be practiced in them too, just like I am my role.
Because people wont let me…
I keep trying and trying and they kick me from the group saying toxic things like ‘Hunters cant heal or tank’. This is the problem with WoW these days, just because a class might be under preforming does not give people the right to act this way toward others. We are all gamers in this together, people remember that next time you think about kicking someone for there class.
I am prefacing this by saying I don’t bash my healers or tanks. (generally even if they’re awful I won’t even say anything)
I don’t heal or tank normally because I’m not in the mood.
I do tank fairly often for my guild and will heal if needed.
I’ve played all three roles but since I’ve been dps for almost 20 years it’s just less thought required on my part.
I tanked and healed as a stand in on mythic raids and that was pretty fun. Unfortunately for tanking, those player slots don’t open up very often so you’ll often be a dps with tank off spec.
Also as a tank I have to remember the routes in Dungeons and those change a lot.
2-14 will pull in a straight line
15-19 will skip certain packs and combine certain pulls
20+ will just be like “so then we lust once the key goes in and burn down 5 pulls at once. Don’t forget to interrupt”
Healing in m+ I haven’t properly learned the damage patterns so if I don’t pop a cd right then things go downhill fast. Probably just need more experience.
I usually only pug so healing or tanking feels harder. Dps on my evoker as dev I just do my rotation, decent dmg we move on no pressure really for my level. 
The stress of either roles, the expectations of you as a Tank or a Healer. I don’t mind tanking or healing myself, I’ll do it and screw up and don’t care so long as I’m learning to do better.
But a lot of people don’t like doing that, if not just for the fear of being berated and not perfect.
I already do
I do both. 
Because Hunter does not get a healing or Tank spec…?
I always found this cop out laughable.
Most of my characters are actually healer or tank specced. I just have no interest in running Mythic+.