There isn ' t really a good term for it right now , but most everyone would understand what you ' re getting at . I assume the reason that the person you ' re responding to is getting so bent out of shape is that labels like main healer and off healer lead to bad habitsoptimizations in the player base as a whole . Essentially , the party is supposed to do as much dps as possible which at higher levels of play includes a lot of nuanced cooperation between the healers and tanks and is why when looking at parses I compare those 4 players as a set against other groups ' tanks and healers as a set . If you get in the mindset of Healer A just solo heals while Healer B never leaves Cleric Stance then you ' ll typically have less dps than another party that optimizes responsibilities and damage output among their tanks and healers as a set . So , that ' s all . It ' s really not something to be a dick about , but some people get really stressed out about labels I guess , haha .