I very very rarely have to PuG anything. Good healers get snapped up by guilds and put on friend lists (much like I do with good tanks on the occasion that I do PuG things). And a lot of times when people reroll a healer, they do so without having any experience with (or knowledge of) the kind of awareness and focus that it takes to do a healing job well – especially with a group that’s not used to running together. They just know that “everyone needs more healers” so they roll one, thinking it will be like DPS.

Add to that the fact that, at least from my experience, healers have a huge ability to affect a group’s sink or soar chances on a very basic level, and you run into some pretty dismal PuGs!

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A healer who knows his business, can keep an normal and even an undergeared group alive, but even a superb tank has a high risc of dying over time, because a weak group can’t keep him alive. I healed my tank through a achievement fail try on svala, after all dd died…
That didn’t saved me from dying several times on the “summoned memory fight” in TotC NORMAL as healer, where I never died as tank or dd… 500-1k dps are way to less for this fight…