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    Taika's Avatar
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    Purple Rain
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    Sophia
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    Arcanist Lv 32
    Quote Originally Posted by Nedkel View Post
    Are we talking about the game wher, there are wet noodle tanks, who have also no idea about the CD's or never use the tanks stance, there are dps that does not dodge aoe's for the sake of casting spell, for low levels the healers job is not a simple task, even sastasha gives a pressure, since tanks there are soft and pulling 2 groups is like playing a roulette.
    Not to mention the "pro super i will carry" tanks that pull entire dungeon level and go with offensive stance for the fastest run, sure there healer doesnt have to cast anything 100% of time right.
    I have healed almost every single content in this game since 1.0 (only current patch, Coil Savage and Ultimate excluded) and I have never ever met a tank so bad I would have not had any time to DPS. Of course there are situations which require a lot of healing, but looking at standard runs rather than exceptions, it is clear healers should have plenty of time to DPS in all content.

    I don't know if you've played healer in this content yourself, but in many low level dungeons you don't really need to cast many heals at all during pulls. In Sastasha you mentioned as an example, I once watched my partner heal it in full-time cleric stance (pre-SB) using nothing but Essential Dignity.
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    Enla's Avatar
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    Crushing Fatigue
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    Balmung
    Main Class
    Scholar Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Taika View Post
    I have healed almost every single content in this game since 1.0 (only current patch, Coil Savage and Ultimate excluded) and I have never ever met a tank so bad I would have not had any time to DPS. Of course there are situations which require a lot of healing, but looking at standard runs rather than exceptions, it is clear healers should have plenty of time to DPS in all content.

    I don't know if you've played healer in this content yourself, but in many low level dungeons you don't really need to cast many heals at all during pulls. In Sastasha you mentioned as an example, I once watched my partner heal it in full-time cleric stance (pre-SB) using nothing but Essential Dignity.
    It's usually groups that make that happen for me and generally in the 24 man's. There's been a number of Rabanasty runs where I barely had time to get my full suite of dots situated before someone else died to an insta-death mechanic or stood in the stupid. It's why I generally prefer running those things with a co-healer I trust because between the two of us we both have time to DPS /while/ fixing all the dumpster fires. The alliance raids are about the only content where I can consistently say that I never expect to get a steady amount of DPS off, but then again that's unsurprising given how many people go into them and expect to be carried.

    That said I agree in that I can't really think of a single instance where I queue'd with just a tank that was so terribly bad that I had no time to switch in DPS when I was able. About the only instances I can even remotely compare was running some of the SB dungeons at level before the SCH nerfs were sorted out and all the WARs running around had yet to get used to their class changes - and even then it was only one or two runs of Ala Mhigo and Doma oddly enough that had such instances. Once everything settled down however it's never happened again.

    Also I weep for pre-SB Cleric's Stance... I miss it so. :<
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    Last edited by Enla; 02-01-2018 at 11:13 PM.