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    Player
    Rath's Avatar
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    Oct 2011
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    429
    Character
    Jagged Phoenix
    World
    Coeurl
    Main Class
    Goldsmith Lv 50
    I am leveling my healer right now, currently 47. But, I always DPS as a whm. I also sleep adds with pld or gld tanks (if the DPS hit the tanks target). The only time I do not DPS is when the tank is severely under geared for the dungeon we are in (lvl 11 gear in 16-20 dungeons, lvl 20~ gear in 26+ dungeons). I am usually healing all the DPS tanking hate and too busy for DPSing at those times. Or when the tank doesn't use any of his cooldowns besides FoF and pulls multiple groups at once (this happens a lot more then you would think). Yes it is my job to heal, but you expect me to esuna and cure 2, stoneskin, protect, why shouldn't a tank use his cooldowns.

    The only time a tank usually dies when a healer is DPSing is when the tank pulls more then he can handle or stands in all the clearly-marked AoEs. There are a few times that things just go fubar, but that has nothing to do with DPSing healers.

    As for pulling, if a tank randomly stops moving for extended periods, I have seen healers pull while I was lvling DPS jobs. Do I do it? No, but I could easily since I can pull with sleep and easily keep myself alive while the DPS kill the mob awake. What actually bugs me is people running off without the group to get chests without saying anything. NIN sneaking takes longer then just killing the group you are trying to avoid.
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    Last edited by Rath; 04-19-2015 at 08:47 AM.