Dear Conjurors who are new to MMO's

[Emyrs]

Agreed wholeheartedly.

I haven't come across any direct finger pointing (just a few angry shouts directed at general CNJ population) but I find myself getting discouraged when there are a bunch of threads and other players getting angry over a virtual mistake. You get another shot. Its not like 'Oh the CNJ ruined everything now we can't play anymore'
I'm already a nervous wreck each dungeon, worrying that someones health will fall below 50%. I'm just glad I've been blessed with understanding parties

Sure CNJs need to heal but keep in mind everyones action should be taken into account.

I was in a dungeon where an ARC thought he was tank and kept running straight into mobs, dividing my healing between him, the tank and myself because of aggro.
I've been in another dungeon and unfortunately got separated from the tank but he managed to fight off everything on his own without dying.

[BrainWoodstock]

I deal damage in every dungeon i was till know (lvl49) The only one i dident was Garuda, but just because 3 meeles in Garuda fight is so annyoing.

Trash = Stoneshield and hot on tank and nuke the shit out of them.
Boss first time= lets see how much damage everyone gets and if i can nuke a bit.
Boss second time= nuke who cares about DD that cant move! :P

[daevidclarke]

I usually try and maintain the "healer" role while in parties. Especially with Regen, it's resulting in a lot of downtime. If I know nothing bad is going to happen, I'll pop Cleric Stance, Aero or Virus (From ACN) if it's a boss. But mostly I just make sure everyones topped off if I have the MP to spare.

[frychikn]

A good conjurer can heal and deal damage they just have to get a rhythm

lets PRETEND that the content was easy enough that you could dps.

dpsing cost mana. i dont know about you, but in longer fights you kind of need mana. have you ever played an mmo, ever?

[RitzNBitz]

I cant stand doing dungeons without my bfs tank, Most DPS want to play the hero as well and tank.

Since I don't use duty finder the overall quality is actually slightly better at times~

[Zetonegi]

lets PRETEND that the content was easy enough that you could dps.

dpsing cost mana. i dont know about you, but in longer fights you kind of need mana. have you ever played an mmo, ever?

And normal mobs don't require much mana if the tank has decent gear. I don't know about you but when my tank has decent gear, he doesn't take much damage from normal mobs and this makes normal mobs very boring. Might as well kill them faster or open chests or pick up items instead of sitting around doing nothing except for the occaisional cure every now and again.

[Chrysopoeia]

(and learning the basics of instancing such as NOT running away when you accidentally pull aggro).

I made this mistake in Copperbell - I didn't realize that healing was making the aggros notice me during the boss fight, so on the second run-through I decided to sprint away when an aggro spotted me. Needless to say, the tank died, then I died right after when the aggro caught up.

[Arylian]

As long as we're doing some whinging here....

I ran Sastasha the other day with a Gladiator tank who either could not or would not use Flash. He would pull a group of mobs and hit only one. As soon as I tossed any heal I immediately got aggro. The Arch and Pug in the group spent almost the entire run trying to peel off me and help keep me alive. It got to the point where the tank was my lowest priority when it came to heals. We basically 3 manned that run. Pug and Arch were AWESOME.

For as many Cnj there are in the game who don't seem to understand their role, there are just as many tanks who are the same. Everyone in the party tried to help the tank understand what he needed to do, and we all got no response at all. He never said 1 word.

[Bridgeburner]

For as many Cnj there are in the game who don't seem to understand their role, there are just as many tanks who are the same.

The percentage of people that fail to understand is fairly constant across all class types. It's just much easier to feel when the weak link is the tank or the healer.

[Lyein]

My two bits-

Your job as a healer is to heal. Anything you do on top of that is gravy. However, you have to keep in mind that if you fail to heal someone dies and then it snowballs from there. If you only heal, but do it well, the battle takes a little longer but you don't ever have to start over. If you fully utilize your class the party can push forward a little faster but if you stumble... that little time you save isn't worth a wipe.

We should all strive to use our class to its fullest extent. But if you're having trouble doing that, its fine if you back off and only heal. Not too many people come on the forums and flame about how that damned healer in their party just kept everyone alive and didn't even contribute to the DPS! : D