Dear Co healers obsessed with DPS

[Volene]

From the situation you described, it does sound like your co-healer wasn't pulling their weight, though we're only getting one side of the story here. With that being said -

Dear co-healers whining about my DPS,

I am a Scholar. I have this wonderful thing called a fairy, it heals for quite a nice amount. I also have Aetherflow abilities which represent the most potent healing abilities I can churn out (unless you count Deployment Tactics as a "healing ability", which it technically isn't), none of which are on the GCD. My GCD heals cost a lot of MP and aren't even as good as any of those abilities. So if you see me cast Broil II most of the time, it's fine. I'm doing my job properly. That's where most of my GCDs should be going, with the healing happening through OGCDs that I can weave under Bio II reapplication, Miasma II or in-between Broil II casts if I have to bite the bullet and clip my GCD. You won't see a cast for it, but I'm healing all the same, I swear. If a big raid-wide AoE happens with no other damage for a while, I will put up a Roused Whispering Dawn to top everyone off, and then yes, I will keep spamming Broil II. If you feel the need to spam Medica three times because you can't stand the sight of people being at 40% HP with no incoming damage whatsoever instead of letting my (wonderfully powerful) regen work, that's your problem, not mine. If you see Excogitation on the tank and still feel like chain-casting Cure II on them because you don't get the message that I want you to throw out some DPS as well, that's also your problem. Don't complain that I'm not healing because you're the one who has no idea how my job works.

Thank you,

Volene.

(P.S: My most recent O3S clear had me at 65th percentile healing with only 29 healing GCDs out of 180 total GCDs, less than 20% of my casts. This means I can and will heal more than most while still spamming Broil II throughout the fight, allowing me to deal a lot of damage without sacrificing healing. If you want me to chain-cast Adlo and Succor just to make you feel like I'm healing, you can get lost. I'm not going to play bad just to make you happy - I'll take actually doing my job over making you feel like I'm doing my job. Thanks.)