Yoshi P to Mr.Happy "Heal DPS is not mandatory and no expectation for Healer to DPS!"

[SaitoHikari]

As expected, everything turned out the way I predicted



The trolls did exactly what I expected them to do, watch little or nothing of the video, and make belligerent quips about me being bad at the game.

Entire context for everything below.

Okay, let's go then.

1) Within the first 20 seconds of the video, I already found something you could improve on. USE YOUR FREECURES. SERIOUSLY. USE THEM. You have 15 seconds to cast a stronger heal that costs NO MP. Going even further into the video, I'm not sure if you EVER use any Freecure procs at all.

At the second group of mobs:

2) You used Regen and Asylum at the same time, and yet continued casting Cure I. This is completely unnecessary and entirely inefficient, because with a mob pack that small, Regen and Asylum by themselves would have kept the tank topped off or very close to it for about 20 seconds. All your cure casting really did was to top off your tank split seconds before your heal over time spells would have done so afterwards.
3) Did you know Holy stuns prevent most enemies from attacking for 5 seconds? That buys time for your regeneration heals to activate, AND does a significant chunk of damage to enemies? Even without Cleric Stance, the stun itself is still beneficial.
4) Do you have so little trust in your tanks that you have to keep their HP above 90% at all times? They're built to take damage. That doesn't mean they'll get knocked down like a pyramid built of dominoes if you look away for a few seconds, unless there's a Final Sting asshole somewhere.

At the first boss:

- Your reaction speed is very, very slow. Consider what happens at 6:05. You're looking at the Dragoon and you're moving in a way that signifies that you clearly realize that the Dragoon isn't at full HP. But it takes you 6 seconds (which is two whole global cooldowns) to actually do something about it.
- Even though your casting is minimal, you spend most of the fight at about 50-70% MP. I've come to theorize that your aversion to DPSing may stem from past experiences where any attempts to resulted in yourself running out of mana. Know that Shroud of Saints restores a significant chunk of mana over time, and that Assize also restores a flat 10% whenever it's used. Both should be used as often as possible, if possible.

I haven't bothered to watch beyond that (at least not yet, but I'll proceed once I'm done with dinner - because at least you're willing to post a video of yourself, which means you risk huge amount of negative publicity, which is something I can respect), but there is something important I've noted from the video. You mentioned that 1) you're undergeared, and 2) this video is a blind run of the dungeon. The latter would explain your slow reaction speed. Perhaps it is foolhardy to insert yourself into this argument so passionately when you clearly don't yet have the experience to utilize your entire skillset to greater effect. You are arguing with people that have YEARS worth of experience playing this game.

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Looked briefly at the second boss once I noticed people mentioning that there was a wipe there. There actually was no wipe, but... Even shifting into Cleric Stance for one moment and using Assize in the center would have cut the HP of all of the rocks and the bunny minions down to around 65% (a guesstimate based on your gear). It's THAT powerful. Throwing a Holy on top of that should have reduced their HP further down to about 40%.

Also, familiarize yourself with Tetraglammation. Note that this dungeon run was 37 minutes. That means you had 37 chances to use it (a 60 second cooldown is not a long time at all), if you tried to use it as often as possible. Tetraglammation is not only a powerful heal in itself, its utility is even stronger, because it's one of your few heals that does not have a casting time to use.

People can say, 'the DPS just need to get better' (and I have to say, the DPS in that video were awful, especially the Bard when taking his gear into account, which drives me insane as a Bard main), but anyone that actually believes that instead of looking inwards for improvement needs to realize that... There comes a practical point where you have to step up to the plate and go above and beyond to get things done. Letting a wipe happen to prove a point is the most self-defeating and time-wasting thing a person can ever do.

When a wipe happens, I don't go blaming other people, I start thinking about what I could have done differently to prevent it in the first place. It's this philosophy that has allowed me to become so good at being a Bard, and I've perhaps prevented countless wipes from occurring (the simplest examples being aware enough to note that one healer in my 24-man raid party may be dead, and the other is only seconds away from dying to a DoT debuff, and I throw my instant cast Warden's Paean - an advantage no other job in the game has - to cleanse the debuff and save them, when their death could have spiraled into a full wipe later in the fight) even though I'm just a 'filthy expendable DPS'. So what if I'm carrying people? I'd rather let my actions set an example instead of being petty.