Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Sebazy]

What's funny is I actually get madder at "raid healers" who believe they are the best things since sliced bread and actively refuse to help heal with their healing partner versus healer's that provide little to no DPS to the group.

I relish that and have always tried to pair up with the most DPS heavy healers I can in statics. The less they heal, the more I've got to sink my teeth into. For the most part it's not often that I need anything more than barriers for certain mechanics. Outside of Savage it's rare to even need that much.

[Ghishlain]

I relish that and have always tried to pair up with the most DPS heavy healers I can in statics. The less they heal, the more I've got to sink my teeth into. For the most part it's not often that I need anything more than barriers forcertain mechanics. Outside of Savage it's rare to even need that much.

At one point during a O1N spree I was in, I was paired with another WHM that had a rather heft amount of HP. I examined them and found they had VIT melded into their accessories which made me happy because to me that screams "RAIDER!" to help survive mechanics at low ilvl (this was the first week of Savage release) and would understand the dynamic of healers helping each other to optimize both HPS and DPS uptime.

What I got was a WHM partner who ended up only having something like a 30% Regen uptime and I don't even think they used their first oGCD heal until the second Charbridias (or however its spelt) came out. They just tunneled DPS so hard and it wasn't fun for me because they were making no effort to help out with their healing responsibilities and we were taking a lot of damage overall due to the party members failing mechanics pretty consistently.

I'm pretty certain even though you handle the bulk of healing your partner isn't actively trying to shirk their responsibilities either and know when and where they need to help out. I don't mind a solid healing challenge personally (I really want to solo heal some of these Savage fights) but I dislike elites who refuse to even remotely acknowledge their primary function.