Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[SannaR]

Very rarely.

As far as I remember, the only place you really use it in Endwalker is the Dead Ends. As healer who doesn't spam roulettes, I need Esuna maybe once a month. I can understand healers forgetting about it.

Thank the twelve that you don't run roulettes often or when you do that you don't get Dun Scaith. The ever self perpetuating circle of screw this I'm leaving because no one knows the fights because people don't stay to learn the fights. And or try and teach. And no I'm not talking about the death puddle that people don't keep on running from after the 1st pull in, but the 2 Esuna-able dooms the boss puts on random people in each party. Yes, I know old content. Not Esuna-able but any time I get SoS I worry about the opening few seconds to see if the healers realize wtf Elidibus inflicts on the party that drops the entire party's health to one. Cause I still remember the one run where for some reason most stayed after the 5th wipe thar was caused by his True living dead attack. 1st 3 were from not healing everyone to full and the other two were somehow not healing the tanks to full. This was late ShB so it wasn't a "everyone and their video game playing dog" was new type situation.

[HyoMinPark]

Thank the twelve that you don't run roulettes often or when you do that you don't get Dun Scaith. The ever self perpetuating circle of screw this I'm leaving because no one knows the fights because people don't stay to learn the fights. And or try and teach. And no I'm not talking about the death puddle that people don't keep on running from after the 1st pull in, but the 2 Esuna-able dooms the boss puts on random people in each party. Yes, I know old content. Not Esuna-able but any time I get SoS I worry about the opening few seconds to see if the healers realize wtf Elidibus inflicts on the party that drops the entire party's health to one. Cause I still remember the one run where for some reason most stayed after the 5th wipe thar was caused by his True living dead attack. 1st 3 were from not healing everyone to full and the other two were somehow not healing the tanks to full. This was late ShB so it wasn't a "everyone and their video game playing dog" was new type situation.

I mean, when I’m in any content with a Doom-type mechanic—be it Wanderer’s Palace (Hard), Dun Scaith, Exdeath NM, Orbonne, SoS, or Dead Ends—I will educate about the Doom mechanic since it’s actually the most important when it comes to cleansing. There can be some blame on the devs for Doom, since they have the same debuff implemented but with different ways of handling it. Players that never have to deal with the mechanic might take a minute to remember how to handle each one—but it doesn’t stop me from educating them.

For other DoTs like poisons, electrocutions, burns, or even Misery or Disease, they are so inconsequential most of the time, healers often opt for letting already ticking HoTs take care of them versus cleansing. Aside from the fact that sometimes the DoTs aren’t even cleansable, so they just don’t bother all around. The blue bar thing was implemented a while ago, but the game never actually explains the difference between debuffs marked with a bar and debuffs not marked. That’s a design flaw, and I think should be addressed in some shape or form. I only learned about the blue bar because I read Patch Notes, but not everyone does.

I usually just use HoTs for damage over time things. The HoTs are more than enough to take care of them versus me individually Esuna-ing them off. The only ones I actively Esuna off are slows, silences, and sometimes the vulnerability up ones IF my healing isn’t overpowered enough to basically negate it. And I will always take care of Dooms. But sometimes, Esuna isn’t even a necessary button press. People just need to learn which items are necessary to cleanse, and which ones they can actively cheese.
Maybe sometimes I will be petty and not Esuna silences or slows if the person who has one has been a royal pain in my butt the entire run. If I get a cohealer that leaves cleansing and healing entirely up to me, then I might just let them keep that Silence or Slow for a little bit should they get one.