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"It sure as heck does! It's in the Geneva convention!"
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If I were some evil voodoo witch, I'd place a curse on all "thou shall not DPS" healers to ALWAYS and ONLY get the most optimized WAR and PLD players who do everything in their power to heal and mitigate before the healer can.
The issue I take with Vercure RDMs and Clemency PLDs is that they waste their GCDs on this when I, as the healer, either have an ability literally about to come off CD to use to get their health back up OR I have HoTs running that will tick them back up in less than half a minute.
Assize isn’t used for healing, but AOE raidwides are so few and far between, I can easily leave people sitting at half health for 10 seconds until it’s off CD, and bam—Assize actually healed AND did damage versus just overhealing and dealing damage. Or I have HoTs going, and then I see the RDMs Vercuring themselves instead of allowing my HoTs to do what they’re supposed to do: heal over time.
It’s okay to sit at low health for a little bit in a fight because these fights are so scripted in nature, and most pieces of content do not do rapid succession raidwides that would require immediate healing after the damage goes out. People that sit there and heal themselves instead of allowing my toolkit to do its job I just leave to their own devices at this point.
It's because there's basically 3 types of healers:
A- the healbot, absolutely refuses to dps and overheals a lot
B- the fast queue jumper, occasionally forgets they're the healer
C- the actual decent healer that knows what they're doing
Only other healer players can discern who's who, so more often than not, it's not that they want to relieve stress on the healer, they just don't trust them lol. Sure, the other roles also have similar types of players, but their roles involve depleting an HP bar while ours is to refill it.