[planet-and-halo]

A guy at my job is a gamer and describes it as "buffing the group." Just as in a game, the healer could be the team MVP, but if you measure DPS you are never going to realize it.

[hashkb]

The healers are usually the best players. They'd be better at DPS but everyone wants to be DPS and demands heals constantly.

Source: was a priest in WoW back in the day. Because nobody else wanted to, not because my warlock sucked.