Healer Confessions

[Its_Elodie]

I've been guilty of all sorts of things healing :O

Wod/ct/st runs if my cohealer kept dying from staying in cs and dpsing at the wrong times, I'll let them lay dead and I don't rez them. I'll let them walk back after we clear the boss/mob or if they're fortunate a smn or another healer will Rez them. Same thing with dps and other alliance healers/dps dying over and over again from ignoring mechanics. Gitgud or walk the walk of shame back to your party, idc.

I'm also guilty of leeching/detrimenting the wrong players at times. Whoopsies.

If you repeatedly stand in avoidable aoe or stupidly stand with the tank getting cleaved in the face, I might let your health get really low to scare you into correcting the situation, or if it continues, let you die. I hate wasting my mana when I could be getting dps in.

If you pull something as dps, I'm going to let you tank it and not heal you unless it was obviously by accident.

If the dungeon starts and you run off while I'm casting protect and you are out of range for it, I'm assuming you don't need it that bad so I might let you die tanking a mob to the face if I can't keep up with healing and remind you to give me two seconds to cast protect before pulling the next time.

[Neophyte]

If you repeatedly stand in avoidable aoe or stupidly stand with the tank getting cleaved in the face, I might let your health get really low to scare you into correcting the situation, or if it continues, let you die. I hate wasting my mana when I could be getting dps in.

Since you will never compensate a real DPS you're just causing loss of raid-dps. /shrug
Healer dps is futile if on cost of DPS dps.

Or other way round: You'll lose more mana if you let a DPS die instead of healing him. Because you would need to do more than double your original dps to compensate him and tanks might run out of mitigation CDs, respectively get more damage (which results in that you'll have to heal more).

If you pull something as dps, I'm going to let you tank it and not heal you unless it was obviously by accident.

That's not your decision, that the decision of the tank. And if I pull as a DPS with a single attack or even a facepull... it's you who'll have emnity with next heal (or your fairy).

Either way, it's just stupid. Stupid like a tank not getting hate on purpose from the fairy (or healer himself) if it happens that they pull hate.


If you're not comfortable with a player initiate a kickvote. But don't let the other two players suffer just because you want to teach a single dumbass a lesson.
You'll deserve a kick as well for such a behaviour, if it's on purpose.

[TristanHirst]

Was doing A3 once and as soon as we start the other healer (a miqo scholar) makes a joke about me being an evil WHM lalafell and that I would probably get everyone killed. Well on last phase after messing up a +- tether she get floored (so satisfying) so I use swiftcast, stop a second to think, and cast a big evil Medica 2...she spent the rest of the fight eating dust of course.

Also not really a healer thing but once in a Bismark farm, I was using weather macros to warn the rest of the party in last phase...after a few clears my brain decide to stop working and I use a rain macros during a wind weather and watch while 5 people happily stand on the border of the platform ready to perform the leap of faith....at least they learned an important trust lesson.

[Cynfael]

Since you will never compensate a real DPS you're just causing loss of raid-dps. /shrug
Healer dps is futile if on cost of DPS dps.

I wouldn't be so quick to call this out. I've witnessed DPS bad enough that they consistently fall below what the healer can produce.

Personally I have a difficult time allowing others to die even when they should. However, if someone dies repeatedly for no good reason or is endangering others by failing at mechanics, I will leave them on the floor.

[Yukariko]

confession time (deep breath)

Took a fresh 50 scholar friend in to titan HM for a trial by fire, I was co healing, we got titan to 30%, I selected my friend and waited.. then at the right moment waved /goodbye to them and then walked into a landslide. they panicked so much it resulted in a raid wipe and I couldn't stop laughing.

T9 killed the main (solo) tank due to "lack of heals" cos i was healing my wifey. told my wifey this and she was super pleased.

more than one occasion I've watched a DPS intentionally pull extra mobs and I've de-spawned Eos and watched the dps die to the adds they pulled, then swiftcast eos back. Sometimes my faerie is just to damn nice and wont let me kill them.

Fallen asleep while healing in WoD and Sohm Al, resulting in multiple deaths both times.

often if somebody pisses me off I'll let them die just so I can use my vicious raise macro on them. that makes me smile.

[Kaerline]

A3S, I was on solo healing duty until the split. Got comfortable enough with the fight to know i could just keep regen and medica 2 up and throw one or two heals here and there before the boss starts its bitchslap routine, so the rest of the time is spent in cleric stance.
At some point someone takes more damage, I drop cleric stance and heal them up. From that moment, my stance dance was completely messed up and ended up realising too late that I was trying to solo heal the AoE bitchslap in cleric stance, leading to a dead MT and, soon after, a wipe.
Nobody was paying attention to me, so the MT was blamed for not using a CD in time

In my defence, after coming to terms with my embarrassment, I did say it was not the tank's fault, but he was still held responsible cause his CD wasn't up in time.

[Pells]

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If you're not comfortable with a player initiate a kickvote. But don't let the other two players suffer just because you want to teach a single dumbass a lesson.

These are confessions (see the post title); the posters already know their behavior is bad form. It's also highly likely to be a shared experience among healers.

There's no need to call anyone out here or educate them on proper play.