Quote Originally Posted by Eardstapa View Post
The problem is, even when YOU know fight mechanics, your healers may not. So maybe you know Ifrit Hard Mode for example, he will use Hellfire and then Incinerate one right after the other, followed by an auto attack that CAN kill you if your healers are too focused on healing others up from Hellfire. So what will you do in that situation where you are not getting immediate healing? Hold on for a 1.15x Heal, or use IB to buffer yourself and use Infuriate/Convalescence? Really, when you know your healers will be distracted, you CAN use Convalescence, IB, Infuriate, IB and build up 5 Wrath again all while keeping the healing bonus of Convalescence... So there truly is no reason to pray to God your healers are on point when you can make sure YOU live if you know the mechanics where your Healers don't know how to play with WAR or know the mechanic themselves.
True, but I think the issue being addressed is when all that's not enough.

Case in point, as a fairly well-geared WAR, Mountain Buster will hit me, without any debuffs on Titan or buffs on me (aside from Protect) for about 4700-4900 damage. That's nearly 2/3 of my max life while in a party with Defiance up (7495).

Now, if everything is up and Titan has SE debuff on him, I can pop Foresight to drop that damage down to about 4300, and then I can hit Berserk and Internal Release, and if IB crits I'll get a heal for ~2400, and then I can Infuriate and do it again for another 1500-2400. And that will cover for most or all of the damage MB does, with extra to spare if both crit. But I can't do that every time he uses MB. I can do that maybe every 3-4 MB's. As a WAR, I need my healers to be on top of things. I need my DPS caster's to have a Virus rotation going. I need the WHM to be casting Stoneskin on me because it's going to absorb over a quarter of the baseline MB damage.

Meanwhile, a PLD would pop Rampart. MAYBE Conv if he needed it. And he'll still have cooldowns for the upcoming MB's that he can rotate through. This is the main issue with WAR that is (hopefully) going to be addressed in 2.1. PLD has more ability to "take care of themselves" compared to WAR. Thus, healers don't have to look after PLD as closely as they do WAR. This gives the good healers time to do other productive stuff, and let's the bad healers get away with being a bit lazier.