Healers and Debuffs. Should they be taken care of Pre- 50?

[Chopstix]

So I was doing a guild heist today as DPS. The one with the bombs and the red flan can put you to sleep.

Well our other DPS was put to sleep, but the healer never Esuna'd them, and alas, they died in the AoE that happened afterward (IIRC Sleep they cast lasts about 30seconds).

I had let the healer know they needed to Esuna that sleep debuff off, yet they blamed us for dying in the bombs ... ehhhh

So that got me thinking. For those who are healers, do you remove debuffs (the ones with the bar on top) with Esuna? Do you ignore them if it's in a pre-50 dungeon?

Personally, I do my best to do Esuna all I can, especially the more dangerous ones. What do you do?

honestly im not that surprised

game does a lousy job of explaining debuff cleansing (probably not even mentioned? let alone the white bar thing)

but yeah long lasting, nasty debuffs need to be cleansed ASAP, a BLM with paralise will do negative dmg

to be safe, always just cleanse if u see something, unless the duration is incredibly short (i think there r some 3 sec silences out there), and quite often it is just a lousy dmg dot, if it's on a tank using that esuna gcd is not even worth it, just give them an extra oGCD if u even need to

[Packetdancer]

game does a lousy job of explaining debuff cleansing (probably not even mentioned? let alone the white bar thing)

This is 100% accurate: there are a lot of things which are basically "institutional knowledge" for long-time players but which many folks don't know and which the game does not make easily-discoverable.

The white bar atop a debuff denoting "this can be cleansed with Esuna", for instance.

The fact that any debuffs/buffs you set on someone that have a timer, the timer will be in pale green rather than white so you know it's yours (though the color difference is so slight that many people I know -- myself included -- cannot see it without looking very closely).

The fact that "Slow" (the debuff with a stopwatch icon) is a debuff that slows a target's cast times, while "Heavy" (the debuff with the icon I describe as "the person on all fours crushed under the weight of life's cruel indifference") slows movement. (Yes, the tooltip does explain which is which, but folks playing with controllers do not have an easy way to check a debuff tooltip to see what the description is.)

Etc.

There are a lot of things this game could stand to be a little more informative to new players about.