Healer Pet Peeves

Yeah, people scattering in duties. -_- even before the duty starts. I had cards I was holding that I wanted to spread but one dps was over yonder and another was edging around the opposite side of the arena so I just spread it on the closest dps. This was Void Ark. Any 24 man duty it seems like most of the party does their best to scatter to the four winds. At one point I said "aoe balance going out, get near me if you want it." Most people wanted it. :D

So I guess I should set up a macro to notify people I'm putting out a ranged party buff? T_T

I really wish people would stop doing that. Hell, for a lot of fights being in melee range is one of the SAFER places to be (mostly anything with conal or donut attacks), and staying about 5 steps away will usually mitigate most AoE attacks anyway. Also stick by your own party in alliances please :/

When I pop out sacred soil or collective unconscious and no one stands in it. That's okay. I'm just going to enjoy this 10% damage reduction...by myself.

Not exactly healer pet peeve but, i hate a silent dungeon run

from start to finish nobody said anything, not even a hello or hi, just total silent, when the dungeon end nobody said anything like good game or such, just run to portal and thats it, some even just straight leave from party ui the second the boss got killed

probably normal for some people but for me it feel unsettling, this kinda left me a mark because the first time i got silent party like this is ironically when i was doing edda quest which lead to tam tara (hard) for the 1st time

I swear at first i though my party is just a random npc and it was all part of the story plot to add the eeriness

I'm silent in Aetherochemical Research Facility because I hate the dungeon and am seething with rage whenever I run it, so I refuse to spread that to the team.

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Originally Posted by KeiranOlive

When I pop out sacred soil or collective unconscious and no one stands in it. That's okay. I'm just going to enjoy this 10% damage reduction...by myself.

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The best thing is when the tank decides to change position for no apparent reason as you drop CU, then doesn't seem to notice that he/she is standing just outside of it. All I can think is "Gee, thanks for letting me stand here with my ...relic in my hand."

As pretty as the animation is, I'd really like apply the damned buff, drop my jazz hands, and immediately get back to work.

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Aetherochemical Research Facility because I hate the dungeon

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this,i hate this dungeon too, did i miss something here? everytime i queue for DF level 60 dungeons, like 90% of the time all i got is this blasted Aetherochemical Research Facility.

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Originally Posted by gumas

this,i hate this dungeon too, did i miss something here? everytime i queue for DF level 60 dungeons, like 90% of the time all i got is this blasted Aetherochemical Research Facility.

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It's because ARF is the only viable Lore farming method because Square Enix made the most asinine decision to reduce tomes given by EVERY SINGLE DUNGEON OTHER THAN ARF.

Like seriously... that decision accomplished NOTHING good.

Triggered recently in the vault.
last boss, fireball orb phase, just as last orb is dying I put up ast bubble right in the middle of the room for everyone to gather in and pick up the buff. Except no-one does. not even the tank. all just dancing about outside while I stood there unable to move, prob for about 10 secs before I had no choice but to break it and throw out a hot. a dps died shortly afterwards from not moving out the fire aoe, I just left them on the floor, petty I know, but was still angry about no-one picking up the free regen. the dps were brd and smn, so not even like they have mobility restrictions

^do you believe it if they said "i though that was enemy aoe"

Because it happened to my party yesterday, brd shot that aoe fire arrow and nin use that aoe mudra, tank just avoid them all, start tank the mobs somewhere else until the brd cant stand it any further and yell "do you hate our aoe that much?!??"

basically tank just brush it casually asking like what aoe? Then both dps just snap and tell it to tank which again he just casually replied "thats your aoe? Why you guys didnt tell me?"

I just stood there enjoying the drama though iam gladly siding with both dps since the tank also overide my protect with his own =P

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Originally Posted by Rennies

It's because ARF is the only viable Lore farming method because Square Enix made the most asinine decision to reduce tomes given by EVERY SINGLE DUNGEON OTHER THAN ARF.

Like seriously... that decision accomplished NOTHING good.

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Actually, it's the other way around. ARF used to give a low amount of lore and was purposely buffed because people either never queued for it or outright left due to how long the dungeon could take. Being that it's necessary to run for people finishing 3.0, they scaled the rewards up dramatically. Why they didn't move it into Main Scenario and offer a bonus through the roulette itself or something I'll never know. I guess to ensure people would get it.

I got one. When I am a healer in a low level dungeon with an Arcanist in the party, it annoys me when they heal the tank when they don't even need it. Like really, I am fully capable of healing myself.

I had someone do just that recently in Tam-Tara. I didn't say anything, but it annoyed the heck out of me. I had hoped they'd catch on and realize that I don't need no help. Oh well.

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Originally Posted by Sentaryuu

I got one. When I am a healer in a low level dungeon with an Arcanist in the party, it annoys me when they heal the tank when they don't even need it. Like really, I am fully capable of healing myself.

I had someone do just that recently in Tam-Tara. I didn't say anything, but it annoyed the heck out of me. I had hoped they'd catch on and realize that I don't need no help. Oh well.

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I ran Praetorium recently and a WHM consistently casted Cure II on me during Ultima, even when he was turning away to cast lasers at the party. Like really? He's not even attacking me yet you still waste your mp?

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

I ran Praetorium recently and a WHM consistently casted Cure II on me during Ultima, even when he was turning away to cast lasers at the party. Like really? He's not even attacking me yet you still waste your mp?

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I had a similar experience recently. I blame PotD.

When I put down an asylum or collective unconsciousness and no one gets it it. Like I'm floating here in this giant bubble for no reason.

Ranged dps that float around 1y outside my asylum/C3/Soil etc., close enough to need to dodge someone else's bait aoe but far enough to not be cured and need another gcd's attention.
People that dodge unsync content's aoes, notlethal aoes at the last few %, more of a general complaint but people are doing this crap for "my" sake.
Stop-start tanks.
Tanks that "soft pull" multiple packs and have over half their health torn before they even stop.
People that assume mantra is only for that signature primal move which is usually accompanied by 5+ seconds downtime.

- Stop-start tanks, dear Hydaelyn, please pick a speed and stick with it.
- Tanks that don't CD and grab like 400000 mobs.
- Healers DPSing without Cleric on.... and on purpose O.o
- People not running in for cards or AoE heals.
- DFing content and having my co-healer be another AST that either consistently overwrites my cards or won't swap into the opposite stance from me.
- Putting down a bubble of any kind (Asylum, Sacred Soil, etc) and no one gets in it. I didn't make the bubble for your viewing pleasure, I promise.

TFW, on Scholar, you're the highest enmity out of pure DPS in an entire dungeon run :')

(And while I know enmity bars are a poor way to judge DPS, this was with a DRG that didn't use Elusive Jump ever, and a SMN who literally only ever spammed Ruin II. There were no DoTs on the boss other than mine :''')

Co-healers without some kinda of notification macro for raising people. like i just got a simple "raising X se.<10>" for mine. it's a bit annoying when we both blow our swiftcasts on a single guy.

Dear Noct Ast's;

Just because you're a shield healer doesn't mean you can sit in cleric stance 97% of a fight. You don't have a fairy pumping out 700hps on it's own. Your cards are great and all, but if you're not planning on healing I might as well drop you for a dps and get rid of the rng associated with ast dps increases. This is especially true if you haven't bothered melding accuracy on your gear. Also, if your co-healer is actually statted for dps, you should maybe relieve at least some of the healing burden to increase the raid wide damage.

I always say I'm main healing a fight and end up doing more damage than my cohealer anyway, in stuff like Nidhogg. People don't wanna use their accuracy melds.

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Originally Posted by Mikaeus_The_Lunarch

Co-healers without some kinda of notification macro for raising people. like i just got a simple "raising X se.<10>" for mine. it's a bit annoying when we both blow our swiftcasts on a single guy.

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This would happen even if you both had a macro anyways, tho. You'd end up using SC while the other healer's macro rings in the party chat :P. The best method for this is to assign raising priorities when a duty with possible deaths starts. Also, if you're with a SCH, it's usually better for them to be raising bc of their easier mana regeneration, so leave them to it and if you see they haven't raised in 10 seconds or so just do it yourself.

Having both healers blow SC is a problem that doesn't have a real solution other than pre-fight communication tbh.

I get salty when my WHM cohealer raises, especially after I just used it. Like, really... I'm Astrologian. Basically infinite MP. But yeah, go ahead, blow 15% of your MP for no reason.

That ends up being the stalemate, I don't want to waste time asking if they are going to raise but I know if I do it ASAP they may as well, but if I wait to raise they too may be waiting to see if I raise then in the end we both blow it anyway. xD

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

That ends up being the stalemate, I don't want to waste time asking if they are going to raise but I know if I do it ASAP they may as well, but if I wait to raise they too may be waiting to see if I raise then in the end we both blow it anyway. xD

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Indeed! Hahahaha. That's why I advice to just assign raising priorities before the duty starts. I don't really care too much about blowing SC like that, so...

The application delay on Bio. If I lose 0.5 seconds each time I want to Bane, how much of my life has been wasted with my finger hovering over a button, gaze steadily fixed on the target's debuff bar?

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Originally Posted by seekified

The application delay on Bio. If I lose 0.5 seconds each time I want to Bane, how much of my life has been wasted with my finger hovering over a button, gaze steadily fixed on the target's debuff bar?

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Probably like 5 minutes tops.

These days it's when I'm paired up with Selene-only SCHs when pugging Savage. Yeah, Fey Wind is nice but it pales in comparison to the utility Eos brings. Especially in fights like A10s where Eos is practically your third healer, giving both healers more Cleric uptime. Hence seeing SCH's not taking advantage of Eos' abilities annoy me.

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Originally Posted by Rennies

I get salty when my WHM cohealer raises, especially after I just used it. Like, really... I'm Astrologian. Basically infinite MP. But yeah, go ahead, blow 15% of your MP for no reason.

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Guilty. In DF, if someone dies and my co-healer takes more than 2 GCDs to Raise I will Raise the person myself.

This seems to happen when I PvP more than anything else, but I really dislike it when I place down a Sacred Soil, Collective Unconscious, or Asylum, and people run out of it to run directly to a swarm of enemy players...

I also don't like it when I place a party wide balance on my alliance, and end up getting it overwritten by another Ast's bole when our party isn't getting hit at all.

Also when I go Noct Ast, and the other Ast does the same.

Lastly, I get a little annoyed when all my WHM co-healer does is protect the group, and I have to do all the stoneskins myself when I play Ast. (I have many more, but I don't want to take up a whole page...)

My days of maining WHM are long past, but my biggest pet peeve about healers was... myself. Trying to squeeze that one extra Holy in and healing the tank a mere instant too late, or running out of mana shortly afterwards to heal the group. Healing under Cleric Stance and noticing a bit too late. Using Benediction instead of Regen accidentally (they are next to each other in my skill shortcuts). Trying to use Benediction to heal someone when it's on cooldown for another 30 seconds - after wasting it accidentally a few minutes prior. Forgetting that Asylum exists (because I play the class only on rare occasions, and almost never above level 50 dungeons).

What a shameful display.

Lately my pet peeve has been co-healers not keeping up their end of the heals. Busting my ass to keep up party and MT heals then looking at their MP and I'm nearly dry and they're sitting with MP almost full. Going into "farms" with a WHM and out healing them while they die to easy mechanics or don't help out with heals during rage markers.

And this morning, a MT who was about 10k under the HP cap, and stood in almost every aoe he could. He didn't have or use Awareness for Diabolos Hollow so he got crit to death before I could even think to use Essential Dignity. Like, he went from full HP to dead.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

Lately my pet peeve has been co-healers not keeping up their end of the heals. Busting my ass to keep up party and MT heals then looking at their MP and I'm nearly dry and they're sitting with MP almost full. Going into "farms" with a WHM and out healing them while they die to easy mechanics or don't help out with heals during rage markers.

And this morning, a MT who was about 10k under the HP cap, and stood in almost every aoe he could. He didn't have or use Awareness for Diabolos Hollow so he got crit to death before I could even think to use Essential Dignity. Like, he went from full HP to dead.

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Welcome to healing in raids. You can always say it in a polite manner to use cool downs or request a tank switch.

Someone already went through the trouble to make a video of just about every single one of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi-aaVejZ9E

Also, I want to gnaw off my hands at the wrist when I catch myself button smashing trying to get an ability/spell off that is on cooldown, or I am on the wrong hotbar selection shouting, "Please don't die tank! Please don't die!" Aww, crap :|

Tanks pulling too many mobs so they melt faster then i can heal

Tanks running too far from eos IN A BOSS ROOM

Tanks pulling mobs out of my aoes (shadowflare/ sacred soil)

tanks running from succor

Tanks running ahead in a dungeon before i can give everyone protect.

Tanks not paying attention to what the party is doing and pulling mobs before they're with them

People that go dark knight but they've never tanked before in their life

Tanks somehow losing aggro to a stationary, frozen fairy.

People using the line "its the healers job" to cover for the fact that they're terrible.


:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

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Originally Posted by Valdima

Tanks not paying attention to what the party is doing and pulling mobs before they're with them

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So I'm a pretty bad tank, but I can manage to count to 4.

:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Holy-chan

My days of maining WHM are long past, but my biggest pet peeve about healers was... myself. Trying to squeeze that one extra Holy in and healing the tank a mere instant too late, or running out of mana shortly afterwards to heal the group. Healing under Cleric Stance and noticing a bit too late. Using Benediction instead of Regen accidentally (they are next to each other in my skill shortcuts). Trying to use Benediction to heal someone when it's on cooldown for another 30 seconds - after wasting it accidentally a few minutes prior. Forgetting that Asylum exists (because I play the class only on rare occasions, and almost never above level 50 dungeons).

What a shameful display.

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You could say it is...



Sloppeeeey

People kicking me from a Leveling duty that's below level 30 because I have Protect slotted third as a Scholar. But before they do that, they lecture me about how useful Protect is as if I don't understand what it does.

I've heard zero argument for Protect having any greater use at that low of a level compared to Cleric Stance and Aero. A second instant cast DoT with a front end potency is far more useful than a % defense buff in those dungeons.

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Originally Posted by ManuelBravo

Welcome to healing in raids. You can always say it in a polite manner to use cool downs or request a tank switch.

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I'm not new to it. I just got a handful of trash Co healers. I'm used to assuming I'll be main healing in 24 mans. This is a pet peeve thread; it's a pet peeve of mine to be healing my ass off to keep people on their feet then see nearly full mp for the other healer, notice very few healing abilities going off, or even just them standing around.

The tank, I did suggest awareness but a) he was already dead and b) he never responded.

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Originally Posted by trashmyego

People kicking me from a Leveling duty that's below level 30 because I have Protect slotted third as a Scholar. But before they do that, they lecture me about how useful Protect is as if I don't understand what it does.

I've heard zero argument for Protect having any greater use at that low of a level compared to Cleric Stance and Aero. A second instant cast DoT with a front end potency is far more useful than a % defense buff in those dungeons.

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Keep doing what you do, you're completely in the right.