The Abonimation Known as WTFWHM

[Artiste]

Must or brainless, or trolling, have no other explainations.

[MeiUshu]

I dont rez if I am in a situation where my mana is at risk or if I require swiftcast to rez because the single moment that my attention is dedicated to rez would see tank dead. I dont care who is dead and why, if I can rez I will do but if I cant for whatever the reason the guy will wait, the mass is more important then the single.

As for medica, cure, the like, well really it is all circumstancial and depends where why and when. Tanks arent all white they have their downfall too. Some dont use their skills to reduce damabes because they think they are above the rest and is just the job of the healer, some consider that healers arent a priority and let them die and then chastize them becasue they were not able to keep the tank alive...

We all hjave our downfall, you hate this and that but for all the hate you have for one that one has also the hate for you ....be perfect and only then you can ask for perfection..and since we know it doesnt exist..therefore....do your best and make sure you have nothign that be said against you

Mei

[StrangeBard]

You forgot what I consider to be a horrid crime at low level. Medica spamming. Players who spam medica for the silliest of reasons and pull because the low level tank has trouble keeping up with the massive enmity generation.

[SummonerSenah]

What about the ones who haven't played around with Esuna enough to know when they can remove status effects? For example, Syrcus Tower on the second boss when his shields go up and reflect damage back onto the players; Bio, Miasma, Bio 2, Windbite, Venomous Arrow, etc can be leeched or esunaed off.

[Cynfael]

Fluid Aura remains worse than useless in 99% of situations that don't involve using it as an off-GCD DPS spell against a knockback-immune target.

While you can use it to reposition enemies so that an odd ranged mob is placed with the tank's pack (useful, but rarely needed if the tank is decent), the majority of players who try to use FA tactically seem to think that pushing a mob out of melee and AoE range is somehow a good thing.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Most creative use of FA I've seen was in DD. We were of course standing in the crystal light and the healer went to FA the ghost that was hanging out just outside of the light.

[mdha02]

I was doing Expert DR with 2 other FC members. I normally heal, but figured I'd dps as bard for a change. We get Snowcloak, YAY!! Or so we thought.
The WHM we got used Cure III as her main form of healing and when needing AoE heals we got Medica II, not one Medica II, but two to three of them. We all know the combination of Cure III and Medica II is draining on mp. Ballad barely helps with this. And apparently this WTFWHM never got Shroud of Saints. First boss we beat, barely. Second boss, WTFWHM wouldn't get out of the freeze AoE. Needless to say she dies 2 minutes, (if even that long) into the fight. So BLM FC member starts to heal the tank. In this fight it does fine because the boss doesn't hit that hard. While we are fighting this WTFWHM tells the BLM to raise her.Then tells the BLM if he isn't going to raise her, he needs to heal the tank. Which he has been doing for the past 5 minutes. Then demands the BLM limit break. Which is pointless on this boss, caster limit break does like 2% damage.

So we finally down the Yeti, and the WTFWHM just laid there. Finally, our BLM said, "I don't have raise you'll have to go back to the beginning." We struggle through the rest of the dungeon.

Then we get to Fenrir.

Before the fight starts we tell the WTFWHM to follow me which we mark me with the O (or as my FC calls it, A blitzball) and I stand still, which I normally do as Bard because I'm lame like that, so the WTFWHM can follow me easier. So the second set of icicles fall, WHM just stands there and gets destroy by Fenrir. We wipe.

Round #2
I let the WTFWHM know the mechanics of the fight. We go in, same thing happens. This time, however, my FC mates and I do not give up. BLM heals, PLD stoneskins himself, I use ballad when PLDs MP is low then turn it off to get a little more on my dps. When we get really low on HP I pop the Limit Break. Which was exciting since I never get to use Limit Break as a bard. So we go on doing the fight pretty much like that. The whole time the WTFWHM is talking pure crazy in party chat. Like how Fenrir and his wife and their kids need to die. That this fight is broken and Fenrir cheats. Stuff like that. I won't post the racist stuff because it was insane. WTF right? To bad we can't kick people when in the middle of the fight.

Needless to say the fight took a while, I had to pop the Limit Break again towards the end because we got close to wiping, but the 3 of us beat Fenrir with no real healer. Granted it was pretty fun for us, 3 manning it with no real healer. BLM heals ftw!!! BTW the BLM said he wanted to kick her when she asked him to raise her and then proceeded to tell him how to do him job the rest of the fight. I said we should have told her, "Dead people don't talk. Just lay there and let us do our jobs." Like I said, we ended up enjoying the Fenrir fight minus a healer. Thank God Fenrir only has like 2 attacks and his cleave attack (if it can be called that) is easily dodged. After that, I don't want bard to not have the healing limit break!! It was very useful! However, I know that situations like that come up very rarely, so I actually won't mind having a more usable one.

Don't get me wrong, I do not mind helping people who are new to a dungeon or not good at a fight. We have done many extreme and coil learning parties for FC and other people. But my problem here was the lack of respect to at least take mine or my other FC members advice. Even when we informed her about Cure III being useless, unless people are clumped together.

The lesson I learned from this story is, I will always go heals for Expert: DR.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

What does being a white mage have to do with this story?

[Divine_Intervention]

When I played Paladin at PS3 release, if a WHM wanted to pull aggro first, they were more than welcome to tank everything.


On the flip side, if a tank speed runs / pulls above and beyond the ability of the party , i'm more than happy to let them die while i'm healing. It usually leads to pulls being more to the capabilities of the group.

Another that annoys me (whm is my main btw, but i occasionally go play monk), is a WHM who ran all through parts of snowcloak, pulling everything to the tank, who wanted to deal with the dungeon on a mob to mob basis, then started crying pull more every time the tank stopped at a mob.

Final most annoying thing to me - Giving healer advice/asking them not to do something and getting "you don't know my job, i do" thrown at me. Happened to be the same healer as the pull comment above. I replied by kindly item linking all of my whm high allagan gear lol.