Is there some unspoken rule to not use Esuna/Leech?

[Lilyarel]

I have lost count of all the times I seen healers just stand there an ignore status effects they can remove. So whats the deal? Why do they absolutely refuse to remove debuffs? If the tank is dying then thats fine. I can understand that. But if everything is comfortable and you have plenty of mana, why not? A slow slows down the whole party because less dps = slower clears. The same can be said for paralysis. The stun can proc right inside of an AOE and kill the person making the team lose even more DPS and making you waste more mana because you were stingy about who to help.

I've been playing as a healer lately and I remove every debuff I can. So whats the deal?

[Kule]

bad healers are going to be bad healers. A lot of people think it's the easy option to play but at high level it requires a lot of skill. I'd love to see them add 8 man content that only allows one healer so the bad healers can finally be called out and not get carried by good healers.

[Riepah]

The only status effect I usually don't bother to Esuna/Leech is a WAR's pacify after Berserk use - especially if they have a macro with it that spams a sound effect.

[Kuurei]

I have lost count of all the times I seen healers just stand there an ignore status effects they can remove. So whats the deal? Why do they absolutely refuse to remove debuffs? If the tank is dying then thats fine. I can understand that. But if everything is comfortable and you have plenty of mana, why not? A slow slows down the whole party because less dps = slower clears. The same can be said for paralysis. The stun can proc right inside of an AOE and kill the person making the team lose even more DPS and making you waste more mana because you were stingy about who to help.

I've been playing as a healer lately and I remove every debuff I can. So whats the deal?

Common responses from bad healers include:

"It costs too much mana "
"Its easier to just heal you while waiting for the debuff to come off "
"I have a purge spell!? REALLY!? "

[Divine_Ultima]

Typically I remove paralysis/slow from myself, then casters, then tank, then melee. I tend to ignore removing poison unless its from wolfsbane in WOD and I sometimes forget to remove pacification on WARs. Most of the healers you've run into sound lazy.

[DrOstler]

The unspoken rule is apparently to not to play your class correctly, period. Not just healers.

[AsahinaMyLove]

I've start having Anti-Dotes with me when I do WoD, incase Wolvesbanes poisons me(its very strong!!)!
Even as tank, poison status didnt got healed by healers! e.e; (cant tell how often I falled because of Poison)

As healer:
I feel like Im the only healer in WoD raids removing negative status' o_O
Maybe other healers dont know those paralyze from chimera, poisons from wolvebanes and electric from cerberus can be healed! o__o

[Alberel]

At lower level there's very little content that even has effects that can be cured. By the time such effects start entering play most new healers have forgotten they even have the skill to remove them.

The worst one is Titan with the determination debuff that gets applied with the gaols. So many healers are oblivious to it and since it doesn't make the player's HP drop they don't think they need to do anything about it. I've even seen healers with the debuff wondering why they can't heal anyone.

[Sove92]

One battle where it makes sense to not remove a debuff is Battle on the Big Bridge, where not removing the confusion stops Gilgamesh from Using Mini and Toad.

[Varicose]

As long as the enemies are dying and the party is not, what's the difference?