Healer Confessions

[MeiUshu]

something surprises me alot though in all these posts....to know that fellow healers do all they can to wipe a group or make other people life miserable..just bcause some cant play their role properly or as you see it, doesnt mean you should kill them on purpose....they rely on you to stay alive and you rely on them to stay alive too...if you kill them you kill leggit players that were giving all their best, even the one that dies constantly may be giving his or her best..I am surprised....the only person I refuse to heal and it happens only a couple of times, is when I have to deal with insulting people THEN and only then I will ignore them, but it has nothing to do with game, it has to do with attitude and poor education of course those gets reported right after and most of the time they get booted.

I didnt know people became this elite to punish others for not being perfect...I learn every day.

As for me, the worse confession is to heal and see that no heals were reaching out to finally realize that I had targeted a mob instead of the tank.

How did I feel ? totally stupid

[Amiaze]

something surprises me alot though in all these posts....to know that fellow healers do all they can to wipe a group or make other people life miserable..just bcause some cant play their role properly or as you see it, doesnt mean you should kill them on purpose....

That's not really how it goes. I've noticed that, unless someone has played a healer class before, they really don't do anything to make our jobs easier. I've had runs where DPS would stand in AoE's AND DoTs, tanks would make massive pulls and use no CDs, etc. The same players often run outside of healing range and bring their AoEs and tethers to me. It's the inconsiderate players that we'll sometimes let die, sometimes for our own good, not players that "don't do their jobs" well. I personally don't care how low your DPS is or how squishy my tank is; so long as they do their part in staying alive and not creating chaos by ignore mechanics, we're fine.

[Saseal]

All of this

^ All of that

The times I 'let' a person die is if they're indirectly putting the rest of the group in danger by splitting my attention, causing me to run back and forth at bad times, or they're literally a waste of mp (and I don't mean that in an insulting way... I mean that in a "I'm running out of mp curing/raising you because you don't want to move" way). Even if it's a genuine mistake - decisions must be made.

I will not kill the many, just because the one refuses to cooperate or be more attentive to their surroundings.
Even if that means letting a person die so I can transplant them where they NEED to be, because no one else, in a raid of 4-5 other healers, is obviously going to help/helping them >_> *Ala pagan knot area of Void Ark...*

There are at some points where my patience is gone - I do take it upon myself to ignore their HP for a short time to teach them that I won't be walked on/their personal heal monkey when I've the rest to worry about, as well. But this all depends on what I've observed them doing, or saying, or acting, too. Being an ass puts them on my lowest list to help.... >_> If they're notably getting D/C symbol every now and then, prior to their oopsies, I hold nothing against them and assume it's lag. If it's a person with a bad/rude disposition and pulling ahead of the tank, etc.... well, I'll only prioritize healing them through it if it means it keeps the others safe. I won't pretend to be a goodiegoodie and heal everyone equally for players with poor attitudes that don't deserve it. Personal skill is not in the equation - you can just tell when someone is being lazy.