Healer Confessions

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10-28-2016, 06:05 AM
bounddreamer

I queued for mentor roulette and got Tam Tara on my lvl 60 WHM. I spent most of the run petting my cat and the only spell I used was cure.

It was so relaxing.
10-29-2016, 08:13 PM
Pixelmancer

I constantly forget to turn cleric off.

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Originally Posted by LeeraSorlan

Dpsing as a whm in neverreap on a boss and you see the tanks HP, and know hes about to die, but you are casting stone 3, so u let him die and just SC res him.Ya im evil but that dps tho!

You're the wrong job. You're a natural black mage. Only job that when given the choice between life and finishing a cast will choose finishing a cast 90% of the time.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

I queued for mentor roulette and got Tam Tara on my lvl 60 WHM. I spent most of the run petting my cat and the only spell I used was cure.

It was so relaxing.

Last time I got a low level dungeon in a roulette I healed the whole dungeon including bosses with cleric stance on just to try to make it harder. It didn't work. >.<
10-30-2016, 01:28 AM
Urthdigger

Got a tank with an ilvl 90 weapon in Sohm Ahl. They could have had an ilvl 125 weapon off the MB. Or hell, even a 115 would have been preferable. When I called them out for this after having to heal the DPS more than them, the party called me a dick.

So I took off all my gear except my weapon. Needless to say everyone died, party complained, I told them not to whine about my poor gear.

Needless to say I got kicked, but I was laughing until the next queue.
10-30-2016, 03:20 AM
Kibby

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shika

Casting balance on myself when thinking I already had Expanded Royal Road... this may or may not have happened more than once >.> (though not in the same instance)

Sometimes I remove it very quickly in the hopes that no one saw my mistake. <_< >_>
10-30-2016, 03:35 AM
xAlice

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Originally Posted by Kibby

Sometimes I remove it very quickly in the hopes that no one saw my mistake. <_< >_>

Ever had such bad luck getting Royal Road that you end up just hitting shuffle when you finally get it?

Yeah. lol
10-30-2016, 04:39 AM
Seoulstar

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shika

Casting balance on myself when thinking I already had Expanded Royal Road... this may or may not have happened more than once >.> (though not in the same instance)

Try accidentally using expand ewer instead of balance..
10-30-2016, 05:05 AM
Averax

I overheal a lot to keep me from going brain dead in duties.

Sometimes i pray for a bad tank
10-30-2016, 07:22 AM
xAlice

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seoulstar

Try accidentally using expand ewer instead of balance..

I may or may not have done this..............

On the bright side, no one seemed to have mentioned anything. I mean, its used so less .. nobody probably even recognises it. Right?
10-31-2016, 10:18 PM
LilLemay

Playing SCH and letting the fairy do all the healing and honestly forgetting that i'm not playing SMN for a sec whenever the tank gets low.

or my personal favorite (incoming party buster)

*puts shields on the rest of the party but one person, but still has more than enough time to get a shield on them*
me: RIP dps
*watches that dps get destroyed without a shield*
me: gg, nothing I could've done
11-01-2016, 04:08 AM
bardaboo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Averax

I overheal a lot to keep me from going brain dead in duties.

Sometimes i pray for a bad tank

How is spamming cure more engaging than dpsing?
11-01-2016, 05:59 PM
Fernosaur

Quote:

Originally Posted by LilLemay

(incoming party buster)

*puts shields on the rest of the party but one person, but still has more than enough time to get a shield on them*
me: RIP dps
*watches that dps get destroyed without a shield*
me: gg, nothing I could've done

Omfg yes I will do this.
11-01-2016, 09:08 PM
Rivxkobe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Averax

I overheal a lot to keep me from going brain dead in duties.

Sometimes i pray for a bad tank

I am confused by this post.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LilLemay

Playing SCH and letting the fairy do all the healing and honestly forgetting that i'm not playing SMN for a sec whenever the tank gets low.

or my personal favorite (incoming party buster)

*puts shields on the rest of the party but one person, but still has more than enough time to get a shield on them*
me: RIP dps
*watches that dps get destroyed without a shield*
me: gg, nothing I could've done

I use to main SCH and I know these feels. Especially forgetting that I have heals that can actually do something since 90% of the time I was in CS. (And at times I would be SUPER LAZY and just heal while in CS because f**k it.)
11-02-2016, 01:08 AM
Averax

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Originally Posted by bardaboo

How is spamming cure more engaging than dpsing?

There is more than one healing spell?

And how is spamming broil/stone/malefic +dots any more engaging?
11-02-2016, 01:17 AM
VanilleFang

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Originally Posted by Averax

There is more than one healing spell?

And how is spamming broil/stone/malefic +dots any more engaging?

I think they're pointing out that if you're overhealing , why aren't you just spamming dps spells instead? Both are equally boring at times, but I would argue casting Stone III a bunch is more engaging than healing nothing because at least you are effecting a bar outside your own MP.
11-06-2016, 03:47 PM
Gemina

My confession tonight is me. I really enjoy healing in mmos, and I still find this enjoyment despite some of the drawbacks of the role. The rewards far outweigh them, but the heaviest of those burdens that makes the rewards harder to work for is taking too much to heart. I am so quick to point the finger at myself when runs go bad. I see multiple health bars at zero while I am still standing, and can't help but feel I could have done more to prevent it. Sometimes I can save the whole thing. Sometimes I can't. Either way, sleep doesn't come easy later that night. And the next day I go back to crafting/gathering/gardening/questing until I feel up for healing again.

Sometimes I think I queue in DF by myself for the most hated instances looking for this like some kind of masochist. I honestly think that while I don't intentionally make things go wrong, I secretly hope they do, so I choose the instances where this is most likely to happen. One of the things I am looking forward to with finally getting into 3.x content, is experiencing the instances everyone hates. I hate that I want to join the raid group of the person who calls me out.

The commendations for preventing wipes is equally gratifying, but always short-lived. I don't want, to want for things to go bad to get an enjoyable experience. How effed up is that?
11-06-2016, 04:54 PM
Gemina

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Originally Posted by Rivxkobe

I am confused by this post.

Read my last post. Not to make things any more clear, but rather to know that this poster is not alone.

Some of us like it when things go wrong.
11-06-2016, 05:17 PM
Gemina

Quote:

Originally Posted by VanilleFang

I think they're pointing out that if you're overhealing , why aren't you just spamming dps spells instead? Both are equally boring at times, but I would argue casting Stone III a bunch is more engaging than healing nothing because at least you are effecting a bar outside your own MP.

Because he is well aware that overhealing will rip hate from the tank. While less than optimal play, and not something I would do myself, I get it and I've seen other healers do it, especially in lower level content where things are less punishing. He needs to heal to feel engaged.

I DPS as healer all the time as well, but it is less engaging. It is less satisfying. What is satisfying is saving a player or group from almost certain doom, and/or finding that small window to rezz a fallen player. We WANT TO HEAL, and I don't think I can put it any more simply than that. DPSing 75-90% of the time is not what we signed up for, but we do it because we operate under the ABC rule. You will find healers like us in the worst f**king instances out there.
11-06-2016, 11:32 PM
Kasmiya

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shika

Casting balance on myself when thinking I already had Expanded Royal Road... this may or may not have happened more than once >.> (though not in the same instance)

I may or may not have done this a couple times last night thinking "I hope no one notices" lmao
11-06-2016, 11:57 PM
revonine

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kasmiya

I may or may not have done this a couple times last night thinking "I hope no one notices" lmao

happened to me a few times too. Mistaking the extended symbol for the expanded one for example lol. Unfortunately I often run stuff with friends, observant ones, so it's often followed by "I saw that Morri, lol" :P
11-07-2016, 11:30 PM
LilLemay

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rivxkobe

I am confused by this post.

I use to main SCH and I know these feels. Especially forgetting that I have heals that can actually do something since 90% of the time I was in CS. (And at times I would be SUPER LAZY and just heal while in CS because f**k it.)

Everyone knows you get bonus points if you use all 3 lustrates in cleric stance, those bonus points aren't heals, but, bonus points
11-08-2016, 08:21 AM
Mikaeus_The_Lunarch

was doing A9 while back and quite a few people were low on TP. so I, the AST, decided to try and see how an aoe spire would do.......it's literally the worst thing i have ever done with a spire. Well i know now i guess, although enhanced ewer/spire is amazing!
11-09-2016, 02:50 AM
Celef

As a scholar I just never ever use a healing spell, letting Eos do the job while I dps and it work perfectly fine....except when I forget I decided to play WHM on the run ^^"

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Originally Posted by Urthdigger

Got a tank with an ilvl 90 weapon in Sohm Ahl. They could have had an ilvl 125 weapon off the MB. Or hell, even a 115 would have been preferable. When I called them out for this after having to heal the DPS more than them, the party called me a dick.

So I took off all my gear except my weapon. Needless to say everyone died, party complained, I told them not to whine about my poor gear.

Needless to say I got kicked, but I was laughing until the next queue.

I really, really want to meet you in a dungeon ! xD
11-09-2016, 06:40 AM
Knahli

Quote:

Originally Posted by Averax

I overheal a lot to keep me from going brain dead in duties.

Sometimes i pray for a bad tank

Maybe I am misunderstanding since I don't play a healer, but as the risk of suggesting something you've encountered a lot, why don't you just contribute to the DPS if you find yourself doing nothing? I imagine you might feel it's not what you planned on doing when taking on a healer role, but it sounded like you are suggesting you just stand around a lot waiting for any excuse to heal unnecessarily. Just the other day I was helping a friend's alt through Steel Vigil where both I(as a Tank) and the Healer were end-game and you can't really help but do single, 3-enemy pulls for the most part in there. Even in Sword Oath, they were tickling me to the point that the Healer would just keep topping me up to 100% with a single spell every ten seconds or so while standing around doing absolutely nothing otherwise. In those situations, I just can't help but wonder why they wouldn't help. It's fine if it's not what you're interested in but surely if you're bored then at least that way you'll help get the run over with sooner and be done with it?
11-09-2016, 06:57 AM
Cynfael

My confession of the day is that it kind of enrages me when I play DPS for a change and witness the healer allowing party members to die in completely normal and manageable situations.

Sometimes the healer acknowledges that they made a mistake and are learning the role, and I'm immediately empathetic. However, sometimes they are just plain bad with no obvious reason, and I bite my proverbial tongue so as not to prolong the pain longer than necessary with an argument about their badness.

I run into this a lot in PoD where even players who obviously play lvl 60 healers outside of PoD seem to have no clue how to function. They either tunnel vision DPS or overheal like crazy, not having gotten the memo that it is entirely possible to walk and chew gum simultaneously.
11-13-2016, 04:57 AM
Rivxkobe

Quote:

Originally Posted by LilLemay

Everyone knows you get bonus points if you use all 3 lustrates in cleric stance, those bonus points aren't heals, but, bonus points

But I need those stacks for more energy drains. :^)
11-15-2016, 01:35 AM
LilLemay

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Originally Posted by Rivxkobe

But I need those stacks for more energy drains. :^)

I think you mean you need those stacks to use aetherflow on, cause y'know if you use aetherflow with 3 stacks on already you get 6 stacks! right? right..?
11-15-2016, 05:44 PM
FinaSel

My confession is that I now main DPS because I feel strange filling every materia slot with Accuracy as a healer >_<.

I wish accuracy wasn't such an issue for healers in raids.
11-15-2016, 06:46 PM
Mirch

I saw someone using {Swiftcast} + {Aero} and I liked it, I told myself I will be doing that if I ever going to get the swiftcast action, witnessing such event brings lots of bad karma, now I must attone for my sin.
11-16-2016, 04:14 AM
Mirakumi

I was doing Garuda Ex in Duty Finder, and the other whm was new, kept dying and causing problems with medica 2 agro. I let him stay dead for the remainder of the fight until we won and just told him I never learned swiftcast. lol
11-16-2016, 04:30 AM
ManuelBravo

Forgive me for I have sin

PoD , tank over pulls, ignore mechanics and while everyone aoes I know its suicide, mobs not 1% and all dead but me. I raise them they pull same stunt I let them die again. I asked why help when we know it's suicidal. Tank does it again no one attacks we let him die and vote him off. Me 99/99 tank 30/31 no witching, no rage, no nothing.... floor 60-70
12-05-2016, 03:44 PM
Gemina

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Originally Posted by Mirakumi

I was doing Garuda Ex in Duty Finder, and the other whm was new, kept dying and causing problems with medica 2 agro. I let him stay dead for the remainder of the fight until we won and just told him I never learned swiftcast. lol

Same thing happened to me in a recent Titan EX run. The WHM just could not stay on her feet, and continued rezzes was only hurting the group. She was new, and did well up until the final phase as most do. She apologized after, and I told her it was perfectly alright, and let her know that no one has killed me more in this game than bloody Titan.

You shouldn't have to make an excuse like that though. Martyrdom as a healer is highly respectable, but certainly not required. Still though, huge e-highfive for that. :)
12-09-2016, 03:28 PM
Awful

Played an enhanced balance on my OT in Soph EX he was out dpsing the dps..Got called out on it and the DPS all went over the edge while me, the tanks and the Sch dpsd the boss down from 15%.
12-11-2016, 09:55 AM
Averax

It took me a long time to realize that Synastry gave a potency buff to you whenever you cast it. I'd only been saving it for very specific situations (tank needs constant healing, but so does someone else), treating lightspeed as my only emergency healing cooldown.

I'm so ashamed

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knahli

Maybe I am misunderstanding since I don't play a healer, but as the risk of suggesting something you've encountered a lot, why don't you just contribute to the DPS if you find yourself doing nothing? I imagine you might feel it's not what you planned on doing when taking on a healer role, but it sounded like you are suggesting you just stand around a lot waiting for any excuse to heal unnecessarily. Just the other day I was helping a friend's alt through Steel Vigil where both I(as a Tank) and the Healer were end-game and you can't really help but do single, 3-enemy pulls for the most part in there. Even in Sword Oath, they were tickling me to the point that the Healer would just keep topping me up to 100% with a single spell every ten seconds or so while standing around doing absolutely nothing otherwise. In those situations, I just can't help but wonder why they wouldn't help. It's fine if it's not what you're interested in but surely if you're bored then at least that way you'll help get the run over with sooner and be done with it?

I do dps in duties, i never said that i didn't, but i really like to heal. I like hard content that forces me to be vigilant for damage. What gets really boring a lot of the times is dpsing (especially if the actual dps are slow) things take forever, spamming stone/malefic/broil gets really boring really fast. I like the huge pulls because they give me something exciting to do, or if i'm on my WHM i'll holy spam (there's nothing quite as satisfying as topping charts with holy).

I feel like i fulfill two roles at the same time, the healer and the third dps, and part of me theorizes that that is why we don't have the traditional 5man setup.
12-11-2016, 01:19 PM
Cleftobismal

When I see the Ilvl of the tank is stupidly higher than all the DPS's in a duty. I boost balance the tank all the time and have him/her use the offensive stance at bosses because they will keep aggro anyways from the major gap in dps.
12-12-2016, 09:26 PM
MPNZ

I'm just starting to experiment with cleric stance with my whm at lv 54, and there is no way that I am going to CC this onto the other hlr classes, ever.
12-13-2016, 03:52 AM
VanilleFang

Quote:

Originally Posted by MPNZ

I'm just starting to experiment with cleric stance with my whm at lv 54, and there is no way that I am going to CC this onto the other hlr classes, ever.

Are you... are you serious?
12-13-2016, 04:00 AM
Cleftobismal

Quote:

Originally Posted by MPNZ

I'm just starting to experiment with cleric stance with my whm at lv 54, and there is no way that I am going to CC this onto the other hlr classes, ever.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...arty-instances

See this dear. Please.
12-13-2016, 04:18 AM
FabricioRF

I secretly hate tanks that don't pull after I spread galvenize.
12-13-2016, 04:22 AM
bounddreamer

Quote:

Originally Posted by FabricioRF

I secretly hate tanks that don't pull after I spread galvenize.

I have been known to pull immediately after a galvanize so it isn't wasted, even if the party is taken aback.

My own confession: if a dps gets double weakness I just leave them there and concentrate on buffing the remaining dps. This happened last week in Wiping City.

I started giving extended Balances to the one BLM who never died.
12-13-2016, 06:14 AM
MPNZ

Quote:

Originally Posted by VanilleFang

Are you... are you serious?

Yes... Well, there is like a 30-40% chance that it wont deactivate when I press it because I pressed it too early or didn't use enough pressure. So I just ended up deciding to avoid using it entirely, but with Heaven's Ward's focus on DPS and speed: it feels like I have to get used to using it. I wish our attacks scaled with mind instead of Intellegence...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cleftobismal

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...arty-instances

See this dear. Please.

Ah, I remember that topic... I think I'll refrain from using it anymore until I know the dungeons and fights better as a hlr. Or, not and treat everything like it's the Stone Vigil.

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