Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
How so? Not wiping doesn’t mean playing piss poor, it means playing the game with the skills on my bar and not stressing if I can’t get that perfect 25 step drg combo down every time.

Not worrying about perfect form is a far cry from what you’re suggesting, I’m just sorry your feelings are hurting over other people stepping on your toes with their healing spells :/
You may not intend "not wiping = fine" to mean playing piss poor but you'd have to be willfully ignorant if you won't admit that this is used as the rationale to justify a fair bit more than imperfect play.

Dps not AoEing a large pull? Didn't wipe. Tank not using CDs? Didn't wipe. Healer just healbotting and contributing nothing? Welp, not wiping so that's also perfectly fine.

To be clear my feelings are just fine, I feel no ownership over any particular part of a group's success. Doing damage, mitigating and keeping the group alive are all everyone's responsibility, the only difference is as a healer I have more tools for one than the others. My issue is people not contributing to all three of these, specifically when they have so much more potential than I do to accomplish that. As an AST I'm not intended to be carrying all three of those facets to success.

If you reduce "success" to "clearing the instance before the timer runs down" you've effectively made all that pointless. I may as well stand still and do just enough healing to keep people alive through unavoidable damage with nothing else. That isn't a game I have any interest in for a variety of reasons, largest among them because I don't feel entitled to wasting the time of three other people.

That's what I'll be generous and say 80% of the Clemency casts I've seen are, and virtually 100% of the Vercures outside of dual cast proccing during forced downtime. They're wastes of everyone's time. We can and should do better.