Healer Pet Peeves

[Alistaire]

Paladins that clemency on trash pulls (or anywhere really) when they're over 50% hp and not even taking damage fast.

[Rawrz]

Cohealers that don't understand how SCH heal.

Had an AST who went nocturnal because they saw I was in Cleric Stance almost the entire fight. He however, did not notice how I virused every Holy after Prey, sacred Soiled during stacking mechanics, Indommed after any Holy that he did not precast, the instantaneous Lustrate after each tank buster and the round the clock Embrace/ Micromanagement of Selene and later Eos after we wiped. It all went to shit after I died from no one stacking before Stasis with me. Go figure. The SCH who "doesn't heal" dies and suddenly the AST can't keep up. ;]

SCH get a bad rep about not healing, but between mitigation tactics, the fairy, and ogcd heals we easily heal 40% of the fight while performing tank like DPS.

[KeiranOlive]

Deployment tactics is great. I love it. But it never goes according to plan.

When an aoe is coming and the group is supposed to stack, I think "Great time to DT" So I pick a target to adlo and then wait for everyone to group together. Except when everyone stacks, we always seem to be missing one person. Yes, the person with the adlo decides to be a lone wolf and stands as far from the group as possible. Afterwords, I just glare at their character with a "You ruined everything" expression on my face.

But then, that's df for you. I'm sure it works better in a pre-made, but I rarely get to see it.

[ty_taurus]

I encourage the largest pulls the tank can possibly perform, that way I can slap on Aspected Benefic/Helios and Collective Unconscious, maybe a Bole if I have it, then use Luminiferous Aether, Celestial Opposition, and Time Dilation on the tank to give them the highest amount of HoTs and mitigation I can provide, then start nuking with Gravity.

But then there's the tank that runs out of my Collective Unconscious bubble before the buff applies >.> I've learned through experience that if I stay there, with my bubble up, the tank has no intentions of running back. Thank you for wasting my cooldown and consequently making it both harder for me to keep you alive, and very difficult to DPS with all that trash on you.

[DamianFatale]

When a player (usually black mage) stands too far away, and I can't pop my regens. Astrologian is not like other healers. You need to position yourself closer to me if you can, or you'll forgo my buffs.

[Rennies]

20 yards on AoE buffs, that's the same as Medica II. I'm not sure what you're talking about =/

Oh derp, you meant specifically Helios/Asp. Helios. Still, I don't have much trouble getting that on most people.

[Rydia_Feymarchian]

New personal pet peeve: Cohealers in premade who say they can solo heal and make me jump to dragoon instead of scholar... and then proceed to show they have no swiftcast whatsoever when the tank goes down.

[gumas]

Doing fate alone and getting swarmed by fate mob, someone pop in and instead of helping me, guy just carefully hit my target but not over my aggro meter... Or just ignore me and hit different target....

Seriously? Its fate, we all in this together, if you get the aggro i'll be more than happy to heal you.

[Gemina]

So guys, what are your pet peeves as a healer?

Mine is basically using the WoW Logic of "You only heal because you queued for healer." when I can DPS for free if there's literally no damage going out whatsoever.

My pet peeve as a healer? That I need to DPS to be considered useful. I'm sorry, but if I can keep you up with benediction, and then a DS regen take care of you until the next bene CD, it is not what I signed up for. I constantly tell tanks to pull HUGE so I actually have to heal. If I have to hope for a derpy group in DF so I can be kept on my toes, something is not right.

My biggest pet peeve as a healer is I don't have to fucking heal.

[Kabzy]

SCH get a bad rep about not healing, but between mitigation tactics, the fairy, and ogcd heals we easily heal 40% of the fight while performing tank like DPS.

Basically this. It's funny that our mitigation can sometimes be what actually keeps the party alive, but we don't get any props for that. Oh well, we usually get a "nice DPS" at least.