DPSing as a healer

[Fevelle]

I can't play badly on purpose. I'm leveling a Scholar solely because healers are so bad of late. It's level 45 now. It'd be 60 if not for Yo-Kai.

Yesterday in Void Ark (READ VOID ARK FFS) we had TWO healers do ZERO damage the entire run (one had 4.44 DPS one fight, the other's highest was 1.2 DPS pretty they just did it by accident) and they still let FIVE people die from completely preventable deaths (the towers on Cuchalaine for example-took over 15 seconds for me to die). These weren't standing in the stupid either, these were just regular damage deaths. Healers are just becoming worse and worse because people keep defending terrible play on the forums and in-game.
At this rate, end game will eventually be impossible as the healer skill drops like a rock.

That's because they're just bad, not because they were not DPSing. If people are dying to towers, your party has lack of heals or lack of dps numbers from DPS classes. And I think you're just unlucky. I run VA 5 times weekly and 99% of the runs no one comes close to dying.

[FunkyBunch]

That's because they're just bad, not because they were not DPSing. If people are dying to towers, your party has lack of heals or lack of dps numbers from DPS classes. And I think you're just unlucky. I run VA 5 times weekly and 99% of the runs no one comes close to dying.

Correct, they are bad. I don't disagree with you. But part of the reason they are bad is because people just let healers be bad. When you lower the skill floor by removing half the job, you just make worse healers. Because they can't react fast when they need to, and just can't cope with the game in general when it gets more complicated (I mean Void Ark isn't even hard)

[technole]

That's because they're just bad, not because they were not DPSing. If people are dying to towers, your party has lack of heals or lack of dps numbers from DPS classes. And I think you're just unlucky. I run VA 5 times weekly and 99% of the runs no one comes close to dying.

I haven't healed a Void Park in forever and I'm a healer main. Not even weeping on healer since maybe the second week. But it's not out of ordinary I have died to to big tubby's bleed as another role.

Nowadays people running that joint or even Weeping are doing it as alt jobs to gear, or are newer players. So their gear isn't optimal either. It doesn't mean they excel at it nor does it say the healer job community is bad either. A lot of times people think since they cleared an instance as one role they think they can heal or tank it easily the next time. Only to realize there are job mechanics they probably were not aware of.

You see it all the time like that example in Void Park, no regens going out during big tubby's towers. Healing is stupidly easy in dungeons as-of late that just turning up the difficulty knob just a tad bit for a 24-main raid is enough to cause an alliance wipe. God speed if you don't use a big tank cooldown during Hell Wind in weeping because healers aren't paying attention. If they only see what healing in Alex Savage consists of, their eyes will get big real fast.

[Parawill]

God speed if you don't use a big tank cooldown during Hell Wind in weeping because healers aren't paying attention.

I love Hell Wind :-) It teaches prioritisation and precasting, but is sadly overlooked by some when it comes to applying said lesson to other scenarios.