Is pre-buffing neccessary?

[aisustrong]

From my understand though, there's a lot of bad SCH out there, I'm starting to understand why they feel it's important when I know I got there backs.

yeah, i started out as war, and after i hit 50 i worked on getting all tanks and healers to at least i95 + zenith
and when i got to brayflox and vigil on scholar (which i did last of the 4), i thought to myself, "man, some of these sch ive had in the past were really really terrible"
like i recall them often having issues in those dungeons (including the times when i redid them, so including when i knew what to do and had good gear [plus i always stayed as upto date on gear as i could without gc gear leveling up war]), and then healing them and its just like, i dont even understand how they could even struggle as much as they did

[Blessedbythesun]

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I was groomed to be a healer back in the day so of playing Ragnarok Online on an awkward job class (Alchemist/creator with Throw Potions) and was forced into healing on FFXI (Main SMN by choice but always had to cure in parties then later picking up WHM). I did story as SMN and then SCH during dungeons here and I never relied on Eos to do all the healing. No one had a problem with that when I was leveling. Being a screw up isn't exclusive to SCH. I was leveling PLD and a WHM absolutely refused to heal me in Haukke Manor. I died 4 times because he got "caught up in DPSing". I had to quit.