Healer Buffs

[Rubicon]

I WHM and my SSII/Prot macro is:
/ac Stoneskin II <wait.1>
/ac Protect <t>
/wait 5 (or 4 or 6, whatever Prot wait time is, I'm at work lol)
/ac Protect <mo>
/ac Protect <t>

When I get into anything I spam my macro until it goes off. If they run away, that's on them.

[Seig345]

Healer is the primary role I play in FFXIV, and I've never taken issue with this. I just roll with it. If the tank dies within the first 15 seconds of a trash pull/boss fight before full buffs can be applied, no buff is going to fix the fact that there's something severely wrong with the tank (or the game mechanics).

If you try to min/max your DPS as a healer in a random DF group... ...you're gonna have a bad time.

[Launched]

Why do people have to wait at all? Protect as soon as you get out of the cutscene, Swiftcast Stoneskin II when the barrier drops, and then recast Protect targeted on the tank if they missed it earlier. You can use Adloq/Stoneskin when the tank is running and catch up with Sprint.

[myahele]

Why do people have to wait at all? Protect as soon as you get out of the cutscene, Swiftcast Stoneskin II when the barrier drops, and then recast Protect targeted on the tank if they missed it earlier. You can use Adloq/Stoneskin when the tank is running and catch up with Sprint.

That's just as bad as attacking the boss/mob before the tank is able to get or maintain hate.

[Elusana_Celah]

Blame FFXIV game design. Nobody likes grinding and this game has more grinding in it than a blacksmiths shop. I mean seriously people just grind grind grind grind grind grind until every ounce of human decency and soul is sucked out of them. They move like machines at this point, devoid of all humanity trying to reach that seemingly endless goal.

I'm not justifying bad mannerism don't get me wrong but it is incredibly easy to become this way when you've been at a grind far too long. Maybe Japanese or Korean gamers can maintain their decency to a degree while in the midst of a really repetitive grindfest but meh... many NA gamers at least start to see their time waste add up from all the grinding and they start to get horribly impatient and rather bad tempered as a result of it.

[Naliee]

I very much dislike it if ppl just charge in without waiting me to cast my buffs.

If you let me cast my protect + (swiftcast)stoneskin II, I most likely have the extra time to help with dps. Not saying I don't have the time to help if I have to buff you during the fight but... Ya know...

[Franchesca]

I just leave them without those buffs if they just charge in. I don't like chasing after people.

Why do people have to wait at all? Protect as soon as you get out of the cutscene, Swiftcast Stoneskin II when the barrier drops, and then recast Protect targeted on the tank if they missed it earlier. You can use Adloq/Stoneskin when the tank is running and catch up with Sprint.

The argument applies when it's at a low level dungeon or when people play SCH.

[Velox]

Whenever a tank runs off without buffs, I simply switch to Cleric Stance and DPS to my heart's content until said tank dies. When I am questioned/bitched at, I calmly reply with, "Oh I'm sorry. I figured you wanted me to be a DPS since you couldn't wait 7 seconds for me to be a healer."

[Lukha]

When I hit my buff macro, it posts 'hold still, you hyperactive little bastards!' In party chat. Usually people are amused enough to wait for SS and protect to finish casting after that.