Repose in dungeons?

[Simaril]

It's a terrible ability, don't waste GCDs on it and DPS instead.

I hope you're trolling.

Casting repose once might save me casting Cure TWICE, therefore it's NOT a waste of a GCD... unless people are AOEing, and the damage done is greater than what it would be focus firing a single target including my DPS. I understand Blm AOE sleep is better than repose later, but in the meantime it's much better damage for me to cast repose, while they cast fire, instead of them casting Sleep, and me casting Stone. (This assumes the healing is under control)

My advice to you OP is tell your group that you will sleep in order to help them(Less damage people take, the more DPS you can do, the faster the run will be.), if they break your CC after that warning then stop doing it. Just go full heal mode, If they don't want to be efficient then you shouldn't have to go out of your way trying to help them.

Also the suggestions to let a BLM do the sleeping is valid, but most BLM's at 50 don't bother sleeping and instead AOE everything and it's a reasonable thing.

I think communication was really the only 'problem' but you know how DF groups can be sort of quiet and non-conversational - so then when someone does say something critical it just bedcomes negative...

[Tzain]

I think communication was really the only 'problem' but you know how DF groups can be sort of quiet and non-conversational - so then when someone does say something critical it just bedcomes negative...

I start off with simply asking "Want sleep or no sleep?" If no one says anything, I say "OK, Sleep it is." If still no one responds I'd say 9/10 times the kill order gets respected pretty well. And the run goes smooth. Most of the time I get lines like "oh good, someone who knows how to sleep!" from tanks. Strangely, Warriors are the ones that usually like sleep the most, which I would expect to not be the case, but since natural timing lets them drop 1-2 Overpowers before the sleep hits it works quite well.
I do have Repose macroed to a /emote for "/em puts <t> to SLEEP!" Which I think helps nicely so that players aren't confused about what I'm doing.

The exception is if there's a summoner in the group, I don't even bother asking then since they seem utterly incapable of actually targeting something and not breaking sleep (I am 90% sure it's the pets, they say they aren't supposed to break sleep, but I watch them do it with AE attacks).

I always assume, unless told otherwise that the BLM will not actually cast sleep or will not maintain sleep past the initial cast. This has proven false exactly 1 (that's "One") time. When I play BLM I am just as guilty about not maintaining the sleep, but the record will show that I am pretty terrible at BLM.