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[Februs]

Couple things that come to me as possible reasons. Was that the healers first run in that dungeon? Or first run in a mass pull dungeon in general.

There was no noob bonus, so no. Everyone had been there before. The healer didn't seem new to big pull heals either. It was more like they were semi-afk or something.

To give you an example, after the first boss I did a two step pull in the following hallway, and the healer had no problem keeping me alive ... until they stopped healing. It's not that they couldn't keep me up. They just stopped casting (full Mp, just to cover that base) and proceeded to, literally, run circles around my character (getting nailed by several AoE's in the process). We killed the mobs before they killed me (thankfully), and we moved on, but the healer just stood there for a minute and had to pop sprint to catch up again. After that, I proceeded to do baby pulls (one group at a time), because I simply didn't trust the Healer to not drift off into lala-land during the fights and the Dps were too slow to guarantee victory before death.

They also didn't stop at the short pulls, or even at a pull, for that matter. They were just plain stopping. We'd be running along, and they'd just come to an abrupt stop (No DC indicator either) in the middle of an empty hallway. Nothing there, and I don't have aggro on anything. They just stopped, frequently and for no apparent reason. They also didn't so much as utter a word during the entire run, even when I asked and gave them ample time to respond after the first boss wipe.

If I had to guess, I'd say that they were either being intentionally stupid (running circles around your tank and eating AoE's to the face instead of doing their job would suggest this), or they were thoroughly distracted by FC chat or real life ... in which case then they should not have queued for a dungeon in the first place.