Remember When Tanks Asked Before Large Pulls?

[Chocolys]

Your creating your own memories. DPS has always been a part of healer meta in this game: healers did DPS from Sastasha through the whole Coil. Holy burn was an essential part of speed running Wanderer's Palace. Even in 1.0 healers were doing DPS in dungeons and boss fights (WHM Moogle burn was a thing, for example).

I never said I was not doing any DPS. And Wanderer palace was exactly the kind on special encounters I mentioned, where I was using Holy.

What I said was that during big pulls, I had not lot of time to DPS. And the overally I did not spend more time in Cleric Stance, than time healing.

For example when Brayflox HM was just released (I quitted the game shortly after that), and we were doing big pull in it, I had no time be half healing, half DPSing, because I was using about every healing skill without any pause to keep the tank alive. With luck I could place few Holies once the herd was thinned enough and the tank could substain the lesser incoming damage. (Or earlier if there was really good DPS.)

And during boss fights in various random matched group duties (which is what this thread is about since the issue is about "asking for big pull" which you should already know if you're in a premade group), I had a lot of healing to do, for example the simple AK wall boss (before it was nerfed), with pug standing sometimes in purple aoe and then the 2 bees, so lot of esunas and heals. Most of my time was not spent in cleric stance.

I remember doing lot of heals even in a "simple dungeons" like Castrum simply because otherwise just by the time he would take me to go into cleric stance and casting some attack, one the pug would have been standing at a bad place and died instantly if I did not keep him at 100% in the first place. (and it was not unusual for the second healer to just be DPS happy without caring about the rest of the party xD)

From what I read on the forum, it seems healer now spent more time in Cleric stance than not and I even hear people saying some Tank can survive without heals in some dungeons. So that has clearly changed because before I quitted I don't know any dungeon where the tank could pull stuff and survive without any kind of healer.

Also when I read a SCH can remain in CS and just let his fairy do the healing, my heart ache. If it has reached such point, let s just remove the Healing class, and give a fairy to the tank. xD