Healer Confessions

I give DPS that are prone to taking avoidable damage/dying Regens on CD like tanks. So, if you get a random Regen, it's most likely because you're bad.

Had a really bad paladin tank in neverreap. Almost never used a CD & stood in everything. Kept pulling with provoke and then not keep aggro because of it nor try to get it back. Kept giving him advice, explaining what to do calmly and nicely. Ignored the whole time. Finally after second boss (which he again lost aggro several times nor did he ever try to move a totem). I told him to start listening or I am done healing him. He did it again so I let him die just before the giraffes. I didn't raise him. I had the DRG i queued with tank the rest of the dungeon while i healed her, the bard, and myself and just ignored the paladins existence. The guy had 200 weap/shield/chest & rest 180s. How you get that far and still cant hold threat in neverreap I don't know.

I don't mind if you are learning (even if you should know by expert roulette) but if people are nicely and calmly giving advice when you fail and you ignore it and continue to fail, then don't expect me to heal you.

- I have slept through healing dungeons more times than I can count. If a run is particularly long or tedious, or if I'm just really tired, I struggle to stay awake. Normally I'm all about stance dancing, but once I start getting drowsy? I wake up every ~10 seconds to throw a strong heal, plus end up running into walls when trying to follow the tank. An object in motion stays in motion.. a sleepy healer with her eyes closed runs in a straight line.

- (bosses have been pulled this way. Even in CT)

- If the tank isn't on top of aggro, I will happily pull adds and tank them while dpsing. I rarely watch my healer-dps-aggro.

- "Why didn't you res the dps/tanks?!" "Died too many times and I knew we could finish the boss without them."

I'm guilty of "forgetting" to heal bad tanks and dps

I let friends die, if they get on my nerves. I purposely make them feel safe and tear that feeling away and enjoy it :D

Do you see that orange icon with a sun? That's a damage buff. Stop messing around and I just might give it to you instead of the tank.

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Originally Posted by raela

- I have slept through healing dungeons more times than I can count. If a run is particularly long or tedious, or if I'm just really tired, I struggle to stay awake. Normally I'm all about stance dancing, but once I start getting drowsy? I wake up every ~10 seconds to throw a strong heal, plus end up running into walls when trying to follow the tank. An object in motion stays in motion.. a sleepy healer with her eyes closed runs in a straight line.

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I'm so guilty of that.

I've killed my friends and party members plenty of times, though I will confess its usually because I'm more focused on a chat then actually healing the party. But those that know me know that, regardless of letting them die a lot, lol, I am a good healer. I outright tell friends yeah I was in chat sorry, lol. But if it's a random party I usually make something up like sorry button got stuck, lag spike, or I do actually say chat distracted me for a sec.

One of the worst things I hate is seeing a healer, especially a Scholar, be just plain bad. And not the normal, you can tell they are having a bad run, but the, this is how they play, how did they make it this far, run. A bad run usually has a lot of death, lol, but with a bad healer, you may not die, but the play style seems off. When I "fail" I will acknowledge it and say something to notify the party, or if I have a derp moment. But I will admit hating when the entire run is smooth and a have a derp moment, for whatever reason, and everyone bitches; like seriously!

I accidentally over-wrote an enhanced Balance that was only maybe 7 seconds in, with a normal Balance. :(

I find it really fun joining in-progress duties because it feels like I'm leaping in to save the day, and I like seeing how I can help fix what went wrong.

Then I join and it's like

http://31.media.tumblr.com/f6e31f35d...qd78cn_500.gif

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

I find it really fun joining in-progress duties because it feel like I'm leaping in to save the day, and I like seeing how I can help fix what went wrong.

Then I join and it's like

http://31.media.tumblr.com/f6e31f35d...qd78cn_500.gif

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I had this once (or, I imagine it was like this not long before I came in) -- joining an in-progress Brayflox on the last boss, the first thing the tank said was along the lines of "PLEASE tell me you know what Esuna is!"

And, since that might be more of a horror story, here's another confession: I had my first case of nearly letting a tank die because I was in the chat box. I type faster than most, I think, but I'm obsessed with writing (and proofreading) complete sentences, so it can still take me 4-6 seconds to write something fairly short. This isn't always good when the tank's just pulled a group of four. -.-

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Originally Posted by carbonx

I give DPS that are prone to taking avoidable damage/dying Regens on CD like tanks. So, if you get a random Regen, it's most likely because you're bad.

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EXACTLY THIS.

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Originally Posted by carbonx

I give DPS that are prone to taking avoidable damage/dying Regens on CD like tanks. So, if you get a random Regen, it's most likely because you're bad.

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YES. I medica II unavoidable damage but if you are a dps and there is a regen on you its probably because I'm tired of healing you when you don't dodge properly. Its the equivalent of wrapping a child in bubble wrap and setting them free with an exasperated sigh.

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Originally Posted by jcfoster11

I had this once (or, I imagine it was like this not long before I came in) -- joining an in-progress Brayflox on the last boss, the first thing the tank said was along the lines of "PLEASE tell me you know what Esuna is!"

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The funny thing is you don't even need esuna on that boss. SCH doesn't even have it's cleanse spell at that point too. The only time esuna is really needed is if the Tank is bad. 95% of the time if the first thing anyone says is slagging off the previous Healer you know they will be terrible. I've even gone into Brayflox aaaagess ago like when I was levelling my first class which is WHM. They were only on the first boss and said something like "Third time lucky!" they had already had two Healers and then the fight starts Tank doesn't get control of anything and people getting poisoned by standing in front of things and getting hit by loose mobs. Guess who they blamed for the wipe? I got in this huge fight with them and was like "Are you really that arrogant that three Healers later you STILL believe the Healer is to blame? Turns out that the Tank and one DPS were a RL couple and the other DPS was an in game friend of the BF. Absolute most annoying experience ever.

It's sort of funny looking for in progress runs sometimes like just for the hilarity of how bad things can be. Trial roulette in progress is some of the funniest. I got SoF in progress yesterday and I teleport in to find all these people running away from hundreds of mobs while people are being slaughtered. My first KoL on day one of that patch I got in on the last boss with about 10 minutes left on the clock and they said they kicked the Healer after tons of wipes. Told them no time for the strat so I'll just learn as we go and we finished it easily. At the end was like "What was so hard about that?"

Sometimes when I get French players after the run I put things through google translate got one in progress where they were saying stuff in French and doing laughing emotes thought they were making fun of me but it was like "It's already ten times better than with the last Healer :D" "This shows how bad they are lololol"

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Originally Posted by NamoNanamo

Sometime, if the tank or the dps aren't trying to dodge aoe. I stop healing them. Magically, they start to dodge.
It's ok when they take unecessary damage while trying their best.

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For some reason, that first boss in Fractal just lags me the hell out. I can do the rest of the bosses and even Nevereap with little lag problems, but that first Fractal boss always gets me. I don't dare heal that dungeon because of that. ^^ Then the healers get mad at me after the second hit I take and stop healing me altogether as a 'lesson'. I don't mean to get hit! honest! D:

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Originally Posted by Alisi

For some reason, that first boss in Fractal just lags me the hell out. I can do the rest of the bosses and even Nevereap with little lag problems, but that first Fractal boss always gets me. I don't dare heal that dungeon because of that. ^^ Then the healers get mad at me after the second hit I take and stop healing me altogether as a 'lesson'. I don't mean to get hit! honest! D:

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Really? It does next to nothing on everyone but the Tank and if you position behind it you have forever to dodge it's AoE's. You just run out and back in again. Don't know how anyone can lag that much that they can't do the single mechanic you need to dodge. It's like a big cone so if you stay on his but you barely need to move at all. For the second set with the circles just move out then run downwards and out to dodge the circles and the next cone

I only recently got brave enough to do regular Alexander through DF. I queued up and did all 4 floors without even reading anything about the fights! Shhhhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone....

Luckily had good groups and everyone else knew the fights it seemed, even got away with a few commendations at the end lol

Typically if I have a dps who just can't stop tanking the floor I'll just stop healing them and not rez them and just cleric stance more often to make up for them being dead.

I was voted kicked out of a party once ever from The Lost City of Amdapor because...

On the first boss i was selected for prey and so i did medica 2 before getting sucked in, and i don't know how but the rest of the party didn't kill the Voracious Maw in time so i died when spat out (even though i had medica 2 on as well) so i commented why they couldn't break me out in time (since all the groups i had been in it only take 3-5 secs at most and this is when the dungeon is no longer new for a while). And they told me you take damage when spat out so you are expected to die.

I was like WHAT THE...

and I stopped healing the whole party.

To my surprise they were able to clear the second boss Arioch with out a single heal while i just sat there and watched lol

I'll confess that I've stopped healing those dps that pull extra mobs. I find they stop pulling more if you leave them around the health that a hit or two will kill them.

Also those dps that immediatly run off before protect in a dungeon only recieve the group aoe heals. I've just seen to much of it to care about them.

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Originally Posted by Lemuel81

I let friends die, if they get on my nerves. I purposely make them feel safe and tear that feeling away and enjoy it :D

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At one point me and some of my friends were farming the Triple Triad card drop from Cutter's Cry and so we were switching up roles to not get bored and started playing this game where we would wait to see how low our PLD friend's hp will get before we have to heal him.

My record was 1 hp xD

If you're rude to me in a 24-man-raid and you see a tether or giant ball of destruction headed your way, you'd best run.

Because I'm coming for you.

Not realising that diurnal sect removes itself when i enter a new dungeon, that tank just went splat and I refuse to take the blame..... but it was me :(

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Originally Posted by MXMoondoggie

Really?

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Yeah, I know. And it always shows me as being out of the zones and I'll still get hit. I have no idea why it's that boss that always hits me with horrendous lag either. It makes no sense what so ever. You'd think the third boss in Nevereap would lag me out or any of the others but it's just that single encounter. =/ No clue why.

OK, I have a good one now:

Finally got scholar unlocked, so I decide to go into guildhest roulette for something easy to try it out on .... and get dropped into Briaxio (the one with the sylphs that hand out all the debuffs). I'm suddenly panicking inside because scholars don't get esuna, but it's a good group and we still clear without too much trouble. After leaving, however, I glance at the party list and it hits me that there's one fewer line than it should have.

That's right -- I'd never summoned a pet. I facepalmed so hard, and to make it worse, I *still* got two commendations out of it.

I let tanks die when I get healer aggro and they don't bother to pull off me after I run into range of the tank's AoE abilities to let them just stand in place to pull things off. Even worse is when the mobs they're targeting die and they just run on ahead to the next group of mobs. I like to think I'm teaching them to keep things from chewing the healer's face, but it's honestly just amusing to watch the tank pull a group of four, die instantly, and have the mobs reset while the dps and I kill whatever is attacking me.

Not sure why, but it's happened several times in the last week or so. I always thought it seemed like common sense to keep the healer from taking damage, since it makes their job that much harder.

Whenever you're busy casting Esuna on yourself and healing yourself from a major AOE attack from the boss, and see the Tanks health slowly depleting until they die, priorities my friends, if the healer dies, everyone dies. HA!

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Originally Posted by carbonx

I give DPS that are prone to taking avoidable damage/dying Regens on CD like tanks. So, if you get a random Regen, it's most likely because you're bad.

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My static calls this the pity regen.

I put dots on everything at the start of pulls and see how low the tank's health can get before they need heals. Sometimes the answer is "they die before I switch off cleric stance because they don't use cooldowns." Last weekend a tank died three times before we got to the first boss. He quit and I was happy to drop bc the dps (and tank) were all incredibly bad. Archer pulling, both dps not waiting for tank and taking hate, tank not stunning, tank completely mucking up the tough corner pull with the two maids. Two out of three tank deaths were 100% not my fault. (The other one I was partially to blame but dude, would it kill you to use a cooldown OH WAIT.)

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Originally Posted by Soladiirn

I let tanks die when I get healer aggro and they don't bother to pull off me after I run into range of the tank's AoE abilities to let them just stand in place to pull things off. Even worse is when the mobs they're targeting die and they just run on ahead to the next group of mobs. I like to think I'm teaching them to keep things from chewing the healer's face, but it's honestly just amusing to watch the tank pull a group of four, die instantly, and have the mobs reset while the dps and I kill whatever is attacking me.

Not sure why, but it's happened several times in the last week or so. I always thought it seemed like common sense to keep the healer from taking damage, since it makes their job that much harder.

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I don't normally do this intentionally, but sometimes it still happens due to trying to keep myself and the people who are trying to pull off me alive.

For another of my own: I'm sort of afraid to level any more healers (or tanks, for that matter) since I've spent so little time in the 40-50 dungeons.

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Originally Posted by Rin_Kuroi

My static calls this the pity regen.

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Can confirm. My static calls it more like "the Regen of Shame". I even have a macro for it.

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/micon "Regen"
/ac "Regen <t>"
/p Casting Regen on <t>. <se.#> <wait.3>
/p Regen has ticked <se.#> <wait.3>
/p Regen has ticked <se.#> <wait.3>
/p Regen has ticked <se.#> <wait.3>
/p Regen has ticked <se.#> <wait.3>
/p Regen has ticked <se.#> <wait.3>
/p Regen has ticked <se.#> <wait.3>
/p Regen has worn off. <se.#>

(This might be slightly off, I don't have my game open so I'm winging it on my phone)

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Just so EVERYONE knows when your Regen for being a derp is active (*do not use in normal dungeons unless you want to be kicked). If I ever use this during raid, everyone starts laughing and makes fun of whoever for taking extra damage.

WOD whm, seemed to always get the runs what had 4 healers perma-clerics and one newbie + me; so I spent the time solo healing the whole alliance and would prioritize the newbie and everyone else over the cleric healers. Would be satisfied when they died on every boss because I wasn't healing them and they were too busy to heal themselves lol

other day was doing vault on ast. 1st boss. accidently turned on clerics (and didnt notice >.>) lost one dps who then told me I had clerics up but it was too late to save the party because I was out of mana bitching outloud that my heals were broken. I felt horrible.
Another vault run, didn't have diurnal up because I forgot to put it back on when I changed to ast and was at the 2nd boss when I realised why the dungeon was so difficult to heal (and sad at all the wasted mana on aspected heals)

Been running with my fiancee who's DRK. we've a dps doesn't pull on purpose policy. We laugh alot when they die.

When not on healer, I'm freaking out because the tank has 50% or lower hp and the healer is dpsing. if I'm on a caster, I'll start healing. >.>

When dps take damage if they don't already have Medica II or Aspected Helios on they get a regen and heal. But I also like keeping regen on the party; gives me time to dps more.

I ignore Clerics in dungeons 85% of the time and do crapier dps because I'd rather have fuller heals if I need to interupt a cast to heal an idiot.

I am a level 56 AST...I never noticed that I got Combust II at 46, thus have never used it, I must have accidentally removed it from my hotbar when I unlocked it (did some experimenting with my hotbars) Boy do I feel silly.

Also, I too have let tanks die for the sake of MUH DEEPS BRUH and let Selene do all my work for me, you can get some good mileage out of a roused fairy. It doesn't happen often, but we can often laugh it off.

I am also so used to playing SCH that I am DPS'ing as a WHM/AST and wondering why the tank's health is not being topped up, then feel dumb.

Also, I am a petty and spiteful healer, if you are rude to me or any of my friends, well son, I hope you like tanking the floor because you will be keeping it warm for a long time.

Went into ExRoulette as Sch with my BLM buddy. Tank was a Drk, rushing quite hard and not keeping aggro due to little/no MP for every pull. My friend accidentally face pulled some mobs and tank did nothing and we wiped. The tank ended up yelling at him for a bit and being a real ass. Got pretty annoying, so I decided by the last boss I had to make my disapproval known. I ran off the edge of the arena like, 4 times. Me and my buddy had a good laugh.

Or the SCH version..

When you Lustrate the wrong person... with all three aether stacks.

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Originally Posted by NanaWiloh

I confess I am not the best healer in the game. In mechanic heavy fights there are times when I am stance dancing that I forget to drop out of Cleric stance too heal. I also target the wrong person for healing more often then I can count, this mostly happens with tanks though...Sorry to the Tanks out there :(

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Done this SOOO many times. Or when CS breaks and I dont actually leave SC. "BUT WHY IS THE TANK STILL DYING!?!" -wipe-

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Originally Posted by PaliBehri

Done this SOOO many times. Or when CS breaks and I dont actually leave SC. "BUT WHY IS THE TANK STILL DYING!?!" -wipe-

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Did this yesterday in Trial roul ;_; Luckily it was just Gilgamesh's bridge fight and nothing fancy >.>; Hit CS too soon, or something, and ended up temporarily confused as to why my heals were crap. |||OTL

I was in stone vigil today. The tank got pissed at me for dpsing and started saying "dude just heal" so i did.
All i did was heal. Only pshyick, succor and aldo. No buffs, no de-buffs, ignored all fight mechanics (like the cannons in the 2nd boss)

then she says "why didn't you do the cannons?"
"you told me to just heal. Cannons dont count as healing."
Wow im spiteful. Lol. So a 30 minute run took about 50.

I love to deal damage on dungeon as a healer, specially as WHM. Sometimes I let the tank die (most times are tank's fault though) and some rare moments I blame them.

"C'mon you could've used the insert big immortality cd name and lived!"

That's usually followed by a "sorry" when I know it was my fault. /cry

I always /follow the tank because I'm lazy. Any other healers do the same?