DPS should do the rez

In a dungeon I think it's just whoever is best placed to do so. A few seconds of not tanking/healing in a dungeon shouldn't cause a wipe in most circumstances.

In a trial it's got to be DPS.

Healers rezzing is generally a good idea, you save DPS and healers are mostly templars that can rezz faster. In trials you can heal most situations with one healer for 20-30 seconds, so one healer is free to rezz. However you need to know what you are doing since it's very much a question of knowing the mechanics and having good timing. Communication is a big factor as well.

I guess a lot of healers don't have what I just listed but still try to pull it off. It's not the idea that is stupid, it's the people using it.

If you have the ability to res, then res. There are situations when any of the three roles have better things to do than revive downed teammates.

DPS are usually the ones that res simply because the Healer and Tank are the ones that stop others from dying.

But in a situation like 4 Shades phase in ICP, realistically whoever is closest should be the one to revive.

Often I find it's safer in an average to good group for a templar healer to rez in a 4 man dungeon. DPS is really undervalued in casual PvE. Often on harder content, if the dps stops completely, the situation spirals out of control. If I stop my dps to rez and I get interrupted 1-4 times (which can happen in places like vCoS, or Bloodroot), adds start to pile up making everyone's job harder, or add mechanics like the stone atro enrage in bloodroot can instant wipe the group.

The healer is really there to support the group with buffs, resources, heals, and by extension revives, if you are ever doing 4 man content, and everyone in your group WILL die if you stop healing for the 4 seconds it takes to line up, complete a rez and get back to healing, then your group probably has some other issues to work out.

Now in 12 man vet Trial content where there can just be endless streams of 8k+ hits to random party members with stuns and one shot mechanics flying around... then yeah, healer rezzing is usually a bad idea.

To wrap everything up, so many times I see people die while trying to rez. It is almost NEVER worth dying to complete a rez unless you are rezzing the tank in a trial and the boss is running around 1 shotting people. 9 times out of 10, if you think you might die trying to rez at that exact moment, then don't try until you see a real opening.

DPS -> Tank (after grabbing agro again) -> Healer

DPS cannot keep the party alive. Therefore they rez first. If healer takes the time to rez its possible for both dps to die. If tank rez its possible for healer to die and then everyone dies. Between two DPS there should always been someone to rez that is not tank or healer. Sure it doesn't matter much in normal dungeons or if you have very good players. But assuming that your group is challenged by the content its best to follow this order and hopefully the tank/healer should never have to do any rezing so that they can focus on sustain.

Dps has tunnel vision.

bla bla bla... dps can't rez cause I need to kill stuff, healer cant rez cause healing players, tank can't rez cause he's too busy getting bashed every where.

If you all can't figure out who is going to rez then just wipe and start again already.

do you know what the most important thing is? TEAMWORK your all in it together so figure it out

I some times rez while tanking and healing.
As a dps I always rez right away and hope the healer can heal me through the damage if I take any.