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  1. #11
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    Gullis's Avatar
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    Gullis Hil
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    Twintania
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    White Mage Lv 100
    While its probably not intentional, it can be kinda annoying when just want to do a quick roulette or dungeon run, and you see a player just stay there essentially afk, or spamming heals when everyone is at 90% + health or full, while you waste more time killing mobs way slower than you normaly would. Another negative side effect is that The longer the fights drag on, tank CDs will eventually run out, and the heavier you will need to heal, which can results in less tanking and shield/healing CDs for the next pull, futher slowing down the run.
    Sure it won't make the dungeons go THAT much longer, but if you take every pull, and cut the normal kill time by 1/4 it does start to add up over the course of a full run.

    Not that speed really matters that much, and most people won't expect a speedrun, but again, it can be annoying when you have to spend way longer clearing a dungeon, just because the healer refuses to dps for apparently no reasons other than, "i'm a healer, and therefore won't dps because reasons"
    Obviously having a injury makes it a bit different, but then you should tell people that, instead of just saying "no i refuse to dps, because I don't want to"
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    Last edited by Gullis; 08-22-2022 at 06:27 PM.

  2. #12
    Player Kuroka's Avatar
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    Ulala Ula
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    Shiva
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    Reaper Lv 90
    I dont wanna be rude, but would using an controller maybe help...?
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  3. #13
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    Hyomin Park
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    Cactuar
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    Sage Lv 92
    Because of the content design in this game, healers are expected to deal damage. The highest forms of content (Savage, Ultimate) do not have high healing uptime or healing requirements. Naturally, easier content will have even less healing uptime and healing needed. Most content, healers spend about 80% of their casts on damage abilities, with 20% or less on healing ones. If someone sees you standing around for 80% or more of a given piece of content, they will naturally think that you are AFK or just looking to be carried while you watch Netflix on another monitor. This is true of any role.

    With no disrespect intended: people shouldn’t be expected to know that you have suffered an injury in the past, and that’s why you don’t want to deal damage. To other players, you would just seem like a healer who doesn’t want to deal damage because “I’m a healer, not a DPS, and that isn’t my responsibility”. Which is an attitude a lot of “pure healers” have in this game. For some reason, a lot of them think they are entitled to standing around and doing the bare minimum simply because they’re a healer.

    If you told people that asked why you weren’t dealing damage that you suffered a physical injury that makes it difficult for you, they would be a lot more understand versus you just saying “I don’t want to” or “I shouldn’t be expected to”.
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    Last edited by HyoMinPark; 08-15-2022 at 08:24 AM.
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  4. #14
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    Rilifane's Avatar
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    Esther Harper
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    Zodiark
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    Scholar Lv 90
    As Sebazy said, a lot of how exactly the exchange went was unfortunately on you.
    Stating that you're old school doesn't help because it sounds simply like a silly excuse that people that want to semi-afk/ pretend they're pure healers use. While I don't agree in how the others adressed it, their point is still valid: a healer should dps.
    There is not enough incoming damage in this game to justify a healer only healing and deliberately using weak skills so they look busy with healing, which some of the pure healer types like do to, doesn't make it better either.

    You have several options:
    1) set priorities for your keybinds and unbind some skills that are less important to make room for the 3 dps buttons. From what you said you have access to about 20 buttons. 3 dps skills makes it 17 - that is plenty for healing skills. Things like Emergency Tactics, Summon Fairy, Physick or Protraction can be clicked if needed but chances are you'll be entirely fine without these skills after summoning your fairy at the start of the duty.
    2) get hardware that is better suited for you. You can try a controller or a MMO mouse, the latter starts as low as 30€ but even in other countries you'll not have to pay a fortunate to get one if you order online
    3) tell them about your injury - most people will immediately be understanding but if you get a competent tank he won't need your healing and may tell you so you'll be back at square 1. Also keep in mind that dpsing is only an additional 3 buttons just do to the basics in both aoe and single target so it can still come off as an excuse to other players.

    The last option is the worst in my opinion because with all due respect to injuries (and I don't know exactly how bad it is for you), there are plenty of ways to work around them that you could at least try in order to make room for 3 buttons so not dpsing at all while there are other options would mean you'd deliberately not contribute when you could. And that's not a good attitude to have in team-based content.
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  5. #15
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    GoatOfWar's Avatar
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    Pepper Oni
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    Twintania
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    Samurai Lv 100
    You hardly need any healing in this game. And by proxy most of your time is best spent dealing damage. What else are you going to do? Waste your time overhealing or do nothing at all?
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  6. #16
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    Ainslie Tinley
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    Omega
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    Paladin Lv 90
    Everybody alraedy talked about how important dps is in this game even as healer.

    You said your left arm is injured and you have problems with certain keybinds, right? And you can use the mouse fine? this may seem backward for a lot of people, but have you ever considered clicking abilities with the cursor/mouse, the ones you can't use keybinds for?
    I, myself, have trouble with keybinds, and apart from the first few numbers I just click all the skills. It's not top gameplay but it works well enough even for raiding, nevermind for casual content.
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  7. #17
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    animeking's Avatar
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    Anime King
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    Goblin
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    Dancer Lv 100
    I've had people complain or just leave the pt because all I did was heal.
    Idc I'm still going to main heal, I'll throw in a dps here and there but I'm not 1 of those healers who will allow the tanks health to drop to 10% before healing.
    These new kids playing this game have adhd.
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  8. #18
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    Supersnow845's Avatar
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    Andreas Cestelle
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    Jenova
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    Scholar Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by animeking View Post
    I've had people complain or just leave the pt because all I did was heal.
    Idc I'm still going to main heal, I'll throw in a dps here and there but I'm not 1 of those healers who will allow the tanks health to drop to 10% before healing.
    These new kids playing this game have adhd.
    Yeah because making the dungeon go longer because you don’t do damage when the tank doesn’t need healing is definitely a better solution

    Skills like ED even bias lower health as they become stronger, standing there healing and only doing damage if everyone is at 100% is just excessive pointless overheal
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  9. #19
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    Discount Hrothgar
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    Zalera
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    Botanist Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by animeking View Post
    I've had people complain or just leave the pt because all I did was heal.
    Idc I'm still going to main heal, I'll throw in a dps here and there but I'm not 1 of those healers who will allow the tanks health to drop to 10% before healing.
    These new kids playing this game have adhd.
    If you're going to do no DPS, please at least have the decency to stand around and do nothing instead of spamming Cures at my full health bar. The spell noise is annoying.
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  10. #20
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    Ruin Darkstride
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    Excalibur
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    Sage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by animeking View Post
    I've had people complain or just leave the pt because all I did was heal.
    Idc I'm still going to main heal, I'll throw in a dps here and there but I'm not 1 of those healers who will allow the tanks health to drop to 10% before healing.
    These new kids playing this game have adhd.
    If they don't die and the next hit won't kill them, then 10% is enough. Your job is to keep them alive, not overheal them to 100% constantly.

    Healing is obviously the priority, however there's PLENTY of time to DPS safely and choosing not to is just willingly dragging your feet. Having an "I'll play how I want to" attitude does affect the rest of the players in your party.
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