Stancedancing Techniques

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Originally Posted by Spoekes

I do not believe that Datacenters are the issue here and we seem all to PUG a lot.
It sounds like a far-fetched argument saying the whole datacenter is the issue, when the most common factor in every group is that you take the healer role.

I don't want to attack you but if it smells everywhere you go maybe you should check your own shoes.

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Please.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2993663

This is worse than usual. At least no healers said "I'm not healing this time" like last time.

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Originally Posted by Aeyis

No they are not. Healer = someone that heals. You are welcome to enjoy dpsing in addition to healing, but dpsing is not part of a healer defination by any means, shape or form..

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If you follow this line of thinking, tanks are intended only to be damage sponges and DPS might as well not possess any utility like Apocatastasis, Mantra, or Resurrection.

The roles in this game are named to help players recognize their primary responsibility in a party, not to straitjacket them into a single category of actions.

All roles share the same ultimate victory condition in a duty: reduce red/purple HP bars to 0%. There are times in even the highest end raids where nothing is getting dangerous, so why would all roles not contribute?

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Originally Posted by Cynfael

All roles share the same ultimate victory condition in a duty: reduce red/purple HP bars to 0%. There are times in even the highest end raids where nothing is getting dangerous, so why would all roles not contribute?

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Yep, DPS is a shared responsibility. More damage is usually the ultimate mitigation.

Unfortunately in casual content this isn't pushed as much unless we are talking about the Odin Trial enrage, The Chrysalis, or the Xande center meteor in Syrcus Tower. You always see many healers when the content came out just standing there when it becames apparent dps is too low and needed an LB to prevent a wipe, successfully or not. Compared to coil where healer DPS is generally required during progression.

Only things i don't like about healers DPS'ing is when my attcks miss.

I was in T13 last night, one run all of my holy attacks hit and there was at least one crit per holy. The next run my holy missed, my stone 2 missed and my Aero's missed. I was looking at my MP and watching it drop from 4k to 1k and the adds were still alive.