I need advice for dealing with summoners as a healer

[Alhanelem]

Use your purify as soon as the third dot hits you; next disease will be shorter and the smn will have to recast all 3 dots again before they can burst you (I don't know why people think SMN burst is OP, especially when everyone thinks its crap in PvE- you have to cast 3 spells before you can even start to burst and you can just rush the SMN before he can get the spells off). Use Esuna liberally if you are being targeted; use it only til disease comes off if someone else is being targeted, because your healing is going to be needed.

As a healer the walls and pillars are both your best friend and worst enemy- SCH gets an advantage here because they can park their pet somewhere where it has more vision. Rather than circle around the wall, stay near one end and strafe back and forth to constantly break the SMN's line of sight, and if they get close to you hug the wall. It drives me nuts when healers do this, I can never seem to get my spells off, so abuse line of sight to its fullest.

[Djlovedrop]

(I don't know why people think SMN burst is OP, especially when everyone thinks its crap in PvE- you have to cast 3 spells before you can even start to burst and you can just rush the SMN before he can get the spells off).

Who says you have to dot them to kill them? SMN burst doesnt involve fester lol

[Alhanelem]

Who says you have to dot them to kill them? SMN burst doesnt involve fester lol

Care to tell me what I've been doing wrong since the game launched? The fastest burst I've come up with is (after dots) fester > ruin2>energydrain>Wither>Aetheric Burst>Ruin2>Fester; I try to throw enkindle in there too if possible.. Fester depends on DoTs being active, the PvP skills have just over half the potency, and ED is half the potency as well. Meanwhile I fight agianst marauders who butcher block for ridiculous amounts all buffed up and more or less 2-3 shot me. Tell me, what does SMN have that does more damage in less time than Fester? Yes, enkindle is a bit more powerful, but you can only (realistically) use that once, while you get up to 3 festers in a minute. If after all that stuff I named your target isn't dead (and often isn't with a SCH lustrating), the most powerful stuff you have is all on cooldown for the rest of the battle (most of the time).

So basically, it takes a significant string of skills for SMN to burst someone down; it is a powerful burst, but it's not nearly as quick as what I've seen from MRD and some of the better melee DPS players. MRD can kill any caster in far fewer actions.

[Ryuko]

As a summoner... don't let me get all three Fester dots on you. (Bio II, Miasma, Bio). Miasma 2 will nerf your healing, but it isn't part of the Fester trio. If I can slam you with three Fester dots, Fester, and hit you with Enkindle, it's going to be huge burst damage. Your best bet is to just kite, try to sleep me or my pet (if someone else hasn't) and Esuna/Leeches off DoTs when you can. Healers who sprint behind walls are really difficult to deal with because you can't "cut them off" easily. Be warned, however, that if you are being followed by more than me... it is possible that you can get 'stuck' behind a wall without your teammates to help you.

[Alhanelem]

Miasma 2 will nerf your healing

For clarity: it nerfs healing effects cast upon the affected targets, it doesn't nerf healing cast by a healer with the effect onto someone that doesn't have the effect.

Anyway, the running trend you're obviously seeing here is abuse line of sight. Try to get your enemies on opposite ends (not sides) of one of the walls, it will be very difficult for them to cast on you without getting closer, and as soon as they begin to approach you, you can just move down the side of the wall opposite the side they approach you from.

[allymarie]

dispel needs to be instant

[Djlovedrop]

dispel needs to be instant

K now were going to far lol

[Alhanelem]

If you could also dispel a melee DPS's main source of damage, sure, i'd agree with you. Til then, nope.

[Clessx]

Instant dispel..hmm maybe. Dispel having a cast time and only being able to dispel 1 debuff at a time is a joke tho imo.

[Lodiodrive]

Doesn't it still prevent sleeps though?

Rouse prevents sleep from landing for the duration, however it will not break a sleep that has already landed.