Healer Horror Stories: Redux

[Cincierta]

Latest horror: I've gotten 3 tanks as gladiators in lvl 35+ instances, with the one making me and the other two dps ragequit in Keeper of the Lake. Just...oh my god not even the amount I was healing was able to salvage the section before the first boss.

[Besame]

I have a 354 geared WM job I just leveled but only heal for friends. You could not entice me in any way to heal raids/groups of toxic strangers. I have seen the way healers are treated while dpsing, not ever gonna happen to this child...

[Jaybiz650]

I have a 354 geared WM job I just leveled but only heal for friends. You could not entice me in any way to heal raids/groups of toxic strangers. I have seen the way healers are treated while dpsing, not ever gonna happen to this child...

This is part of the reason I am not rushing to unlock this content. I love healing as main but even in regular content you get a ton of people who criticize when I am DPS. "You are letting my health get too low." No, actually you haven't gotten below 50% and no huge damage is coming so I'm gonna let my HoT's do their thing...

[MrKazilios]

I recently got a white mage in my group who flamed me because "dps as healer is meta" and the guy don't like meta cuz meta players are no brain and don't have a single bit of personnality. Damn boy xD

[yayo-bonito]

I thought people do not like healers who do not dps? Confused.

[Sebazy]

I thought people do not like healers who do not dps? Confused.

Frankly you'll find someone who'll take objection to something eventually no matter what you do. Be respectful, friendly and try your best, this way you can massively reduce the odds of bumping into 'that guy'. <3

[Driskus]

Yep, you'll find one every once in a while that flat out wants a zero-DPS healer. I've taken the 30 minute penalty because of this exact reason twice since Stormblood released. I'm not gonna sit back and do nothing for 90% of the run. Usually I've found that its zero cooldown paper tanks who complain about healer DPS more than anyone else (both instances I've left the tank has also been a mentor). I can only assume they want a pure healer so they can max out pull size despite being severely undergeared & underskilled for it.

[Vaxel]

Qued Alliance roulette. Got weeping city, other healer was also an Ast.
First pull they ran to the blocked off exit and waited, no sect, no help.
Saw this, went awwhellnaw and after the first boss we kicked.

Got a really nice Whm who liked to heal while i mitigated.

[Jellybums]

As a healer in DF, not bad, sometimes had co-healers who wouldn't heal except themselves or even raise, and die to mechanics, then quit. Not sure what's up with that but I don't mind it now it then. In a good party, solo healing is enough even in Rabanastre it turns out. It's when I'm not healing that I do mind lazy healers like gtfo here.

[Saraphin]

Did Lighthouse, as a WHM, got an AST who was in Di...then they bitched about Protect. when i countered, I was told because i wasn't a legacy player I didn't know anything. *facepalms* my fiance, that I talk, and formulate my opinions with, is beta legacy. so, I'm fairly certain that I know what changes have been made and can look at them objectively. (Shields would have been nice...instead of a second Party Wide AOE.)