Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[Limonia]

I just had such a lazy healer in a leveling roulette.
I'm leveling Ninja (only NIN and MNK left to get all to 70) and get into Shisui of the Violet Tides.

There was this veeeery lazy lvl 64 Scholar. During trash pulls (the tank in normal quality leveling gear only ever did single pulls) he was like 80% of the time either standing with his back to the enemies, 10% running/jumping around, 10% healing. I asked him if he was half afk and he said it's enough to heal with oGCDs...
OF COURSE his Eos was on auto and used all her spells whenever they were up. AND he was a MENTOR with multiple level 70 jobs, including the other healers.
Curiously, during boss fights he casted some dps spells here and there when he wasn't currently busy just standing there. Like one Bio, Broil, Broil, and back to turning away from the boss for the next 20 seconds.

I know I'm bad and NIN and sometimes mess up the Ninjutsu or let the speed buff drop. But at least I'm trying my best and I'm pressing buttons all the time. This healer had so little to heal and was just standing there, knowing he doesn't need to do more.
I get that if a healer is new he might be more careful and that's ok. But this healer was just incredibly lazy. He wasn't even one of those healers that refuse to ever dps, because he attacked a little bit during bosses (and during ONE trash pull I saw a Miasma II - but he didn't even cast Shadow Flare during trash pulls even though it's ogcd and doesn't keep him from healing at all). He was just plain lazy and rather let others do all the work for him...

[Aosha]

...but he didn't even cast Shadow Flare during trash pulls even though it's ogcd and doesn't keep him from healing at all). He was just plain lazy and rather let others do all the work for him...

What more, Shadow Flare is also minor mitigation (5% slow), and thus might allow the lazy Scholar to heal EVEN LESS. They're even lazy at being lazy.

[Lascivus]

Just did a leveling run on Halatali for SMN. It definitely wasn't the worst, given nobody died. But the tank continuously ran off ahead without waiting for the healer. The BRD kept activating the winches and running off, leaving the enemies. At one point the healer got left behind because they forgot about the aether, and the BRD almost died. But other than that, it was about the quickest I've ever finished Halatali and I'm now halfway to lvl 56.

[Forben]

Im healing this dungeon as I speak. Dzemael Darkhold.

Level 53 archer. ARCHER. When I asked them why they weren't a bard, "I like the bow".

Not even second boss and they've died 3 times. Not standing in purple twice going to eye boss, and on eye boss. They kept running from me and LoSing me. I deemed they weren't worth the effort and stopped healing them. Had to rescue them on cooldown into the purple, they kept leaving it. Third time they pulled mobs while the tank was catching up. A firm believer of "you pull it, you tank it" I just... let it happen.

[SpiritMuse]

Level 53 archer. ARCHER. When I asked them why they weren't a bard, "I like the bow".

Do... do they not realise you keep the same weapon when you unlock your job?

[Forben]

Do... do they not realise you keep the same weapon when you unlock your job?

That, or the icon? I didn’t ask after that reply. I was still a bit stunned.

I kindly suggested at the end that they change to bard, because the only thing they were doing as an archer was punishing the group.

[Kurando]

snip.

Amdapor Keep is very glitchy, sometimes mobs of enemies are missing between certain bosses. You might only have one section without any mobs, although you could have two sections after the first boss but it's always a little strange when nothing is around to kill.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Level 53 archer. ARCHER. When I asked them why they weren't a bard, "I like the bow".

Still better than the "archers are cool, bards are gay" response I've heard...

[Anselmet]

Had an auto follow sch today in Copperbell mines with only eos healing. Wasn't there the whole dungeon and when my sprout co dps died to the bomb for the slime boss they never received a rez. Last boss I explained to the dps to ignore adds and burn the boss. They of course disregarded everything I said and went after the adds. Sch mia and just a drooling husk following tank so no help there. Had to almost do mechs for the first time in like 4 or 5 years. But luckily my lb killed the boss just as adds started flooding in from the busted wall.

No comms.

[Wardrake]

Amdapor Keep is very glitchy, sometimes mobs of enemies are missing between certain bosses. You might only have one section without any mobs, although you could have two sections after the first boss but it's always a little strange when nothing is around to kill.

I would consider that as a possibility if I didn't see what I saw. If I had spawned in with a normal team and we saw that then sure it could be glitchy. I can guarantee that this was not the case this time at least.