MSQ Difficulty and Exclusion

[ForteNightshade]

I think I would have more sympathy for healers if I wasn't seeing a large number who refuse to heal anyone for any reason and just DPS. Since moogle started it has been a positive rush of healers refusing to heal. Some even saying at the beginning "I am going to DPS so better not screw up none of you will get heals." Great fun when the tank is doing it for the first time and missing mechanics. In over 40 runs of Prae I have run into at least 9 healers like this.

My attitude is you want more to do? Show me you can do what you are expected to do now.

Except this attitude largely derives from healing being so unrewarding nothing else matters but DPS. It's essentially a catch 24. By constantly dumbing down the healing requirements, people naturally gravitate towards the only metric they have left: DPS. Which, in turn, resulted from healing being the "pure healer" only for the role to repeatedly get less and less engaging.

What you have are bad players who don't care. Asking them to do more won't accomplish anything because they couldn't care less. Instead, you're holding down the role for the larger amount of players who do care but are simply bored because their role isn't a healer. It's a gimped DPS who occasionally heals.

You also have to factor into what is actually killing people. I can't count the number of times I've had BLMs refuse to leave their Leylines only to promptly die then whine about it. Or as Rilifane cited above with tanks not pressing CDs. While I'll generally make accommodations for new players, I'm not going to baby someone whose "fun I'm ruining" because they expect me to heal bot them while they stand in everything under the sun. If I have a BRD or RDM out in Narnia when I press Ixo, they better hope I have another stack of Adders that I won't need for another mechanic otherwise they'll be hitting the floor because I'm not GCD shielding them. Move in to Ixo next time. It managed to heal seven other people.