Quote Originally Posted by currentlemon View Post
Still running into healers on roulettes that don’t use Ensuna when needed. I am aware that enemy DoTs don’t matter that much in some dungeons, but shouldn’t the use of the skill be a muscle memory at this point? I’m not sure if I should either blame the game for failing to teach the mechanics or the players themselves.
Ffxiv teaches you to fight the reflex to use Esuna, and I'm not even joking. When I came to FFXIV, I had a lot of experience as a healer. So my reflex was to carefully bind this power and use it as much as possible.

... After a while, I changed the bind to a less accessible key, and mentally relegated esuna to a less important position. Because apart from specific debuffs (eg: paralysis; the debuff whose name I don't know in English, but which slows down the gcd; doom)... Well, using it is simply a waste of time. So much so, in fact, that I have a distinct memory of almost letting players die in instances I wasn't familiar with, simply because they had a dot that I hadn't cleansed, the game having taught me in the meantime that dot = forgettable in 90% of content.

So here: blame the game... And yourself in part (< said without any animosity) because a proper healer shouldn't systematically use esuna.