Why Speed Pulls?

[Faelandaea]

Okay I read the OP but the first few replies made me just skip the rest. So I'll just give my 2 gil and move on . . .

As a healer, a GOOD healer, that is (no ego here, really), I completely respect and honor what the tank wants to do. I go at the pace that the tank is comfortable with. Why? because I am the one responsible for healing him, and the tank knows what he is comfortable with pulling. I also LOVE it when the tank, who knows they set the pace, ASKS the group "Hey, guys, are you comfortable with speed pulls or . . . ?" Me, personally, am confident as a healer and I'll tell the tank they can go as fast or as slow as they want - I'll heal through it. Really this is a convo between healer and tank because DPS should be able to deal with whatever we do - all they need to do is DPS so it doesn't matter - but as long as the tank and healer are comfortable with the pull rate and damage ratios, all is well in the run. Like it or not, the tank is in charge, and the healer is like the first officer of the ship, with the DPS being the rest of the crew.

If folks want a speed run, they have no right to be in the DF. They need to grab one of the 200 friends they have crammed into their friend list (seriously, this is a SOCIAL game - if you don;t have friends uninstall now and go play a single player game or PvP game like CoD where friends are never needed), or grab FC mates, or maybe even use the PF to pre-form a party that communicates BEFORE the queue and agrees on a pull speed. If you DF, you go with the flow - period - end of story.

When i queue up in DF for a random PUG, I expect to go at the rate the party goes at - meaning the tank's pull rate. I am always pleasantly surprised to heal through a speed run, but I always EXPECT a slow run if I use the DF. That's just common sense.

There's my 2 gil. Now on to waste more time during this maintenance