Ranting about Regen

[Selli]

You'd think level 60 healers would know not to Regen before a fight. It's kind of something you pick up when you get the skill and you're like, "Hey, when I cast this early, things want to hit my face. I should probably start off with a Cure I or Cure II on the tank before I Regen them, just to make sure they're done pulling and have sustained aggro."

When I was leveling my SMN, I had a level 60 WHM decked out in full i180 Law in the level 59 dungeon, and they were pre-casting Medica II and Regening everyone in the party before each pull. This poor i148-ish PLD could not keep hate on anything and the healer just bitched and moaned about dying constantly. Even when the tank begged them to stop doing it.

Can anyone else sense the vote kick? X3

[Raji_Lev]

You'd think level 60 healers would know not to Regen before a fight. It's kind of something you pick up when you get the skill and you're like, "Hey, when I cast this early, things want to hit my face. I should probably start off with a Cure I or Cure II on the tank before I Regen them, just to make sure they're done pulling and have sustained aggro."

Yeah, that's what really gets me salty about this, it's like "How the heck have they not figured out the cause and effect of it by now?" I'll admit, when I first got Regen I went a little nuts with it, but didn't take long for me to learn that it was one of those Don't Do That things.

Heck, I wouldn't mind the Regen+Medica2 stackers so much if they were using the extra time to stay in Cleric Stance and nuke stuff, but more often than not, they're either compulsively curebombing or just standing around.

But if they want to just hit buttons to heal every paper-cut, while regen is up, and overhealing I just turn-off tanking stances like Grit. I do it all the time in Neverreap since the bosses hit like a wet noodle anyway. As you say, cooldowns are optional at that point because you don't need them if you are getting overhealed, lol.

Yeah, I've pretty much resorted to doing this as well (though depending on how much the DPSes are making me work for hate, I might keep the tank stance on a little longer before dropping it). Cause, F it, if they're going to do nothing but mash heal anyways, I might as well give them a -ing reason to mash heal!

Of course, I'm sure that when I've run as tank, I've made at least a few career tanks go "WTF is this nineball doing?"