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    Seraphitia Faro
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    Midgardsormr
    Main Class
    Scholar Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Taika View Post
    Nope they aren't. That's really bad healer play (like not using cooldowns is really bad tank play). You're supposed to utilise your abilities to prevent s*itty situations from happening, not save them for in case they would happen (in which case they might go to waste entirely, or in worst case you're the one causing the s*tty situation).
    Eh...wrong. People that go for maximum efficiency are not fine with healers holding onto them. But in duty finder you find all sorts of people. If I tried to go for maximum efficiency, all the times that holding onto those things saved the party from deaths or even wipes does more than make up for the minute or two lost per every run where I didn't make use of it. And no one ever told me to use any of these skills. Not once.

    And sorry, but in the case of Scholar in particular, you are entirely wrong. Lustrate/Indomitability use the same resources as Energy Drain. NOT using them liberally and using Energy Drain instead before the Aetherflow recharges is BETTER than wasting Lustrate as a standard heal. Because not only does it deal damage (worse than Broil/Broil II, but not terrible), it also restores mana, which in Scholars case in particular (the heaviest mana user of the healers) is pretty important nowadays.

    That being said, there were boss battles in dungeons, trials, heck, even standard large pulls, where I specificially held onto aetherflow and saved a wipe like that, thanks to having six stacks at my beck and call when necessary. In some cases, it's just very simple for less experienced people to make mistake and go from 100% health to critical health, possibly more than once.


    You seem to be misunderstanding what a bad healer is. A bad healer is a healer that does not take advantage of their tools properly, but it's also a healer that burns their limited resources when it's not necessary. A bad healer is a healer that does not take into consideration the random aspect of peoples mistakes (even if the mobs themselves may work on a script) or even their own or others gear being sub-par. Basically, a bad healer, like every bad "someone", is a person that does not adapt to the situation but only follows a "script". How and when cooldowns are used is such a script. Sure, in a good party, they can be used more liberally (though as I said in Scholars case, not necessarily on healing). But you cannot say to every healer that pops up to do that, because there are times when it cannot be done like that. Same with tank cooldowns. Some healers or DPS are more prone to forcing a tank to keep the cooldowns for more edgy situations. You can say all you want that those situations could be avoided by using them preemptively or whatever, but that's wrong. Things that go wrong usually go wrong due to random things (well, players mistakes), and throwing a cooldown preemptively is just gambling.
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    Last edited by kikix12; 09-20-2017 at 05:35 PM.