Dear Healers who don't DPS

[Miste]

Traffic. You kind of rely on other people not being devastatingly bad to get anywhere in populated areas. I think that's a fitting metaphor for Duty Finder. .

I meant they do not usually rely on each other when it comes to getting to a destination. Maybe in rush hour, but that is an entirely different situation where everyone is stuck going around the same speed if not completely stopped due to congestion (this doesn't happen in FFXIV DF content itself...only maybe the queue times lol). Her analogy said it was 55mph and 70mph. They are definitely not stuck in rush hour traffic going those speeds.

The analogy still doesn't work because even if the cars have to deal with each other to some degree they are separate entities and they do not have the same destination so they have no obligation to work together to get to said destination besides the obvious of just following the laws of the road. Thing is the irl laws of the road cannot be compared to FFXIV because I know for sure you aren't going to get thrown into Mordion Gaol (FFXIV's jail) for simply DPSing too hard on healer.

I mean it is sort of like they share the road, but not the destination and that means if I am running side by side with someone in Eorzea's open world and they decide to stop I am under no obligation to stop with them because I have no connection to them. I am free to just pass them and keep going to my destination. The only laws in FFXIV in that situation is that I do not harass or try to MPK said person for no reason.

With DF you cannot just run pass your team and go it alone. You'll just die without them in most cases since DF content requires the group to work as a single unified force to overcome it.

I mean saying that you should break the law to be efficient with your car....that is not the same thing as healer DPS being efficient.

I can only speak personally in that I find going "WTF" to my monitor is all the stress relief I need when I run into the Terror Pug that these threads seem to perpetuate as some common occurrence.
Finishing a couple minutes slower won't break my day
It's not that I defend '0 derps healers', only that I don't understand why they get -so much hate- compared to the, basically same, performance of the Derps and Turnks.

I understand where you are coming from as I basically do the same thing. I just vent to my boyfriend about the DF and he usually makes jokes and ends up making me laugh and it helps avoid frustration for sure and finishing slower isn't the entire issue so eh.

The other roles get just as much hate I assure you. Tanks for sure. The problem with DPS is that you can get banned for parsing and well...without parsing it is a lot harder to prove a DPS is slacking badly. I mean you can try to tell them everything they are doing wrong, but without proof they could just be like "oh I am doing it right, you aren't seeing properly" because analyzing someone's rotation is difficult without outside help. Especially when you have to focus on doing your job as well.

In general I think most people are scared to say anything to DPS jobs for fear of that parsing problem. It just isn't worth getting banned over. I have no clue if SE would ban over simply stating numbers and not technically harassing someone, but I wouldn't want to test that theory.

A tank losing hate is easy to see, and a tank tanking tons of damage and no cooldowns is very easy to see for the healer. A healer standing idle or simply overheal spamming is easy to see as well. DPS rotations....not so easy unless you knew the game very well.