Quote Originally Posted by Cynfael View Post
This is a pet peeve of mine when I heal, but I try to give benefit of the doubt to offending tanks unless they are being blatantly absurd with Clemency spam.

From the tank’s perspective, they run with bad healers and die if they don’t self-sustain; then they run with good healers and get major side-eye for backseat healing and wasting their time and MP. I remind myself of this whenever I feel like smacking a DF tank upside the head.

In before someone launches into an explanation of how Clemency can help healers AoE more, because that kind of coordination is not a thing in DF, and healers have oGCD heals for a reason.
Honestly my luck in DF could fill at least 6 pages on here in the DF thread with bad dps or healers or tanks, so when i pld i tend to top myself off if i see healer dpsing as then they can output more and tbh in a boss fight my mana is worthless unless i holy spam because holding agro doesn't take much with a pld and a provoke, flash/circle rotation. with few rotations i get my mana back anyway lol. one thing that has gotten me some snarky remarks is when i divine veil around 10 seconds before a boss room aoe even if i am full hp it still does its effects so if people could understand that, would be great (The unavoidable's like with seahorse rising tides attack in drowned i think its called? something or other) because it reduces dmg to the party but people do not like that apparently.
Also if a healer is treating me like a practice target in DF i will just heal myself, i have better things to do then be there practice run of a 'Clutch' heal, ain't nothing clutch about me dieing because you wanted to test if you could heal me before the TB went off when i was at 20% hp...
I main War,Pld,Whm,Ast,Nin,Brd so i know most roles well in a sense and i know that if i as a healer have a tank under 50% hp most of the run, if i do not hold agro from the group bar some exceptions like people bursting at the start rather then waiting 5 seconds for me to grab agro or as a dps doing my best to do dmg while avoiding enemy attacks and managing my emnity skills, then i am not doing my role properly.