Healer Confessions

[jcfoster11]

I find it really fun joining in-progress duties because it feel like I'm leaping in to save the day, and I like seeing how I can help fix what went wrong.

Then I join and it's like

I had this once (or, I imagine it was like this not long before I came in) -- joining an in-progress Brayflox on the last boss, the first thing the tank said was along the lines of "PLEASE tell me you know what Esuna is!"

And, since that might be more of a horror story, here's another confession: I had my first case of nearly letting a tank die because I was in the chat box. I type faster than most, I think, but I'm obsessed with writing (and proofreading) complete sentences, so it can still take me 4-6 seconds to write something fairly short. This isn't always good when the tank's just pulled a group of four. -.-

[Fevelle]

I give DPS that are prone to taking avoidable damage/dying Regens on CD like tanks. So, if you get a random Regen, it's most likely because you're bad.

EXACTLY THIS.

[BroodingFicus]

I give DPS that are prone to taking avoidable damage/dying Regens on CD like tanks. So, if you get a random Regen, it's most likely because you're bad.

YES. I medica II unavoidable damage but if you are a dps and there is a regen on you its probably because I'm tired of healing you when you don't dodge properly. Its the equivalent of wrapping a child in bubble wrap and setting them free with an exasperated sigh.

[MXMoondoggie]

I had this once (or, I imagine it was like this not long before I came in) -- joining an in-progress Brayflox on the last boss, the first thing the tank said was along the lines of "PLEASE tell me you know what Esuna is!"

The funny thing is you don't even need esuna on that boss. SCH doesn't even have it's cleanse spell at that point too. The only time esuna is really needed is if the Tank is bad. 95% of the time if the first thing anyone says is slagging off the previous Healer you know they will be terrible. I've even gone into Brayflox aaaagess ago like when I was levelling my first class which is WHM. They were only on the first boss and said something like "Third time lucky!" they had already had two Healers and then the fight starts Tank doesn't get control of anything and people getting poisoned by standing in front of things and getting hit by loose mobs. Guess who they blamed for the wipe? I got in this huge fight with them and was like "Are you really that arrogant that three Healers later you STILL believe the Healer is to blame? Turns out that the Tank and one DPS were a RL couple and the other DPS was an in game friend of the BF. Absolute most annoying experience ever.

It's sort of funny looking for in progress runs sometimes like just for the hilarity of how bad things can be. Trial roulette in progress is some of the funniest. I got SoF in progress yesterday and I teleport in to find all these people running away from hundreds of mobs while people are being slaughtered. My first KoL on day one of that patch I got in on the last boss with about 10 minutes left on the clock and they said they kicked the Healer after tons of wipes. Told them no time for the strat so I'll just learn as we go and we finished it easily. At the end was like "What was so hard about that?"

Sometimes when I get French players after the run I put things through google translate got one in progress where they were saying stuff in French and doing laughing emotes thought they were making fun of me but it was like "It's already ten times better than with the last Healer " "This shows how bad they are lololol"

[Alisi]

Sometime, if the tank or the dps aren't trying to dodge aoe. I stop healing them. Magically, they start to dodge.
It's ok when they take unecessary damage while trying their best.

For some reason, that first boss in Fractal just lags me the hell out. I can do the rest of the bosses and even Nevereap with little lag problems, but that first Fractal boss always gets me. I don't dare heal that dungeon because of that. ^^ Then the healers get mad at me after the second hit I take and stop healing me altogether as a 'lesson'. I don't mean to get hit! honest! D:

[MXMoondoggie]

For some reason, that first boss in Fractal just lags me the hell out. I can do the rest of the bosses and even Nevereap with little lag problems, but that first Fractal boss always gets me. I don't dare heal that dungeon because of that. ^^ Then the healers get mad at me after the second hit I take and stop healing me altogether as a 'lesson'. I don't mean to get hit! honest! D:

Really? It does next to nothing on everyone but the Tank and if you position behind it you have forever to dodge it's AoE's. You just run out and back in again. Don't know how anyone can lag that much that they can't do the single mechanic you need to dodge. It's like a big cone so if you stay on his but you barely need to move at all. For the second set with the circles just move out then run downwards and out to dodge the circles and the next cone

[MaitoA]

I only recently got brave enough to do regular Alexander through DF. I queued up and did all 4 floors without even reading anything about the fights! Shhhhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone....

Luckily had good groups and everyone else knew the fights it seemed, even got away with a few commendations at the end lol

[Drtoxicmedica]

Typically if I have a dps who just can't stop tanking the floor I'll just stop healing them and not rez them and just cleric stance more often to make up for them being dead.

[MayuraT]

I was voted kicked out of a party once ever from The Lost City of Amdapor because...

On the first boss i was selected for prey and so i did medica 2 before getting sucked in, and i don't know how but the rest of the party didn't kill the Voracious Maw in time so i died when spat out (even though i had medica 2 on as well) so i commented why they couldn't break me out in time (since all the groups i had been in it only take 3-5 secs at most and this is when the dungeon is no longer new for a while). And they told me you take damage when spat out so you are expected to die.

I was like WHAT THE...

and I stopped healing the whole party.

To my surprise they were able to clear the second boss Arioch with out a single heal while i just sat there and watched lol

[Whiteroom]

I'll confess that I've stopped healing those dps that pull extra mobs. I find they stop pulling more if you leave them around the health that a hit or two will kill them.

Also those dps that immediatly run off before protect in a dungeon only recieve the group aoe heals. I've just seen to much of it to care about them.