Healer Confessions

[CyrilLucifer]

To the tank I let die on accident in Pharos HM: I said I was mashing Essential Dignity, but it was already on CD. Yeah, it was, but I actually was too busy with tunnel vision to heal.

I'll admit, to my great shame, I've done the failed CD bit with Benediction while DDing before. I swear its icon looked like it was off CD, but its CD was so long that there was like 10 seconds left and the little slice was so small I could barely see it. I kept mashing the button it's assigned to, wondering why it wasn't going off and wondering why my tank died.

And, of course, the Benediction goes off the second he dies and hits me instead.

[Yukariko]

So true !
If you're too dumb to stack with your party, you deserve to die miserably, alone, on the other side of the arena...

So so very true. /almost cries

[Morgan]

There was a monk that apologised to us, healers, for being in another side of the room in Void Ark. I was speechless and literally shed a tear.

[CyrilLucifer]

There was a monk that apologised to us, healers, for being in another side of the room in Void Ark. I was speechless and literally shed a tear.

That's the type of person you befriend if they're on your server.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I LB3 then promptly die to avoidable AOE because I was watching the beautiful AST limit break. I mean, have you SEEN it?!
Whoops!

I honestly have never seen the AST limit break. What's it look like?

[Heliantheae]

I never actually read all of Diurnal and Nocturnal Sect's text. I just saw, "Blahty blahty blah Regen" or "Blahty Blahty Blah Shield." And my first couple of runs after getting Nocturnal Stance left me unimpressed so I just stuck with Diurnal. It wasn't until leveling in the Library someone said something. It was a tank and he said something along the lines of, "Stop using your DPS stance." I thought he meant Cleric, so was Ok. Then near the end he said something like, "If you're going to stay in your DPS stance at least DPS." I thought he was crazy so I just went with it. Then a couple of days later someone else said something along the same lines, but actually mentioned Diurnal and Nocturnal. So I actually took a closer look and noticed Diurnal had a 5% Attack Speed increase and Nocturnal had a 5% Healing Potancy Increase. Whoops.

Thinking back, people have probably said something about it before, but I just assumed they meant Cleric Stance.

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

"If you're going to stay in your DPS stance at least DPS." I thought he was crazy so I just went with it. Then a couple of days later someone else said something along the same lines, but actually mentioned Diurnal and Nocturnal. So I actually took a closer look and noticed Diurnal had a 5% Attack Speed increase and Nocturnal had a 5% Healing Potancy Increase. Whoops.

Thinking back, people have probably said something about it before, but I just assumed they meant Cleric Stance.

It seems you're both confused. Attack speed directly effects your cast time, to put it simply anything that boosts attack speed is like a haste for your spell cast, healing spells included. Buffs like Presence of Mind, Arrow, and Fey Wind all increase attack speed by a percentage as described in the tool tip, all benefit you as a healer because they hasten your cast times.

[SaitoHikari]

To the Ninja I was with doing EX roulette at Arboretum just now: Sorry for letting you die to Soul Vacuum because I thought I could kill the boss before it went off.

(Although that brings up a hypothetical question: Would a DPS at 12.8k max HP even survive a Soul Vacuum with 3 vulnerability stacks?)

[Meimi_chan]

When I heal in pvp (most of the times), I laugh at the people that die because they decide to chase into enemy grounds.

[GarnetTribal]

When doing Void Ark, I absolutely refuse to run around in order to heal someone who is far away. If you're not with the group and you die, you just learned a lesson. I'm not going to chase someone to heal.

I feel that healers get sh*t on so much in the game; this is the one area where I have total control.