Quote Originally Posted by subteraneanbird View Post
Shieldbro Mcmeatwall.
Best tank nickname ever, mind if I use this for the bad tanks I run across from now on? lol


On the rest of your rather impressive and containing matter I'd mostly agree with wall, running across a DPS that does nothing but Full Thrust over and over is annoying in the case of DRGs. Me personally, having 6/8 battle classes to 50, will point out those things to other people. Is that DRG not doing Heavy Thrust before going into Impulse Drive? I'm gonna point it out. Is that SMN not using Fester or Shadow Flare at all? Gonna point it out. But Healers aren't absolved of everything either. If you've used a healing class a general amount, you understand what they have to deal with. Does the DPS keep standing in AoEs and eating them then not attempt to learn from the mistakes? Tell them what they need to do. If they continue to fail, let them die and panic to stay alive. Being nice and helpful is good at first, if people don't show you the same, then don't be kind or helpful to that person anymore.

A week ago in Stone Vigil, I had a healer who was using some pretty lackluster gear. Saw some Strength and Vitality gear in there. Then their weapon...Level 40 dungeon and they were using a level 15 staff. I don't need to be a qualified healer to know they're mucking some **** up. I pointed it out, their gear was about as awful as it could get for what class they were using. I wasn't rude about it though, I simply told them it was very unhelpful for their role. The other DPS since I was a BLM at the time, laughed at it pretty hard himself. Our tank at the time didn't do his class quest for Shield Oath, so he was holding aggro about as well as a training dummy. I told him after trying to struggle through it that it just wouldn't be possible if we were pulling off him constantly. He was understanding and accepting of it, and I respected the guy for it. The healer? They started giving me attitude that I'm a DPS that doesn't know what they're talking about. I pointed out the weapon, they changed to a level 40 staff, then gave a smart remark and rage-quit. Basically to get out a remark to a run the rest of us were going to abandon soon anyways. It was uncalled for and I hoped I wouldn't see that healer again.

Of course healers have a lot of responsibility, you should be on a tier of party coordination with the tanks. How many enemies can be pulled before it's too much? Things like that. But if the DPS is good and playing perfectly, you're probably going to be getting bored. So at that point you can DPS, which should liven it up more since Regen can do all the healing by itself in a lot of cases. My only point to you is that griping about being a healer and dealing with the DPS and others shouldn't come up, if you know something that can make someone play better, tell them. You can try and come off as kind and honest, or just be straight and serious with them. If it's something they should seriously be doing, just remind them: "Hey, I'm trying to help you play better so you have more fun with your class later on, can you just accept my advice and not make problems over it?" Something simple like that should hopefully make things go better.