Stancedancing Techniques

[Seryl199]

I treat every PUG as a carry group, I never know if I'll be carrying bad tanks, DPS, or other healers. Instead, I consider each group as we are playing. Over the course of many PUGs, I've come to see many play styles and can adapt to most any groups, whether it is a struggling group that will require a lot of healing, or a capable group that will require very little. The more capable I assess the group to be, the smaller the "danger zone" I assign. This is the lowest HP I'll let someone get before I find them in danger of dying.

With that in mind, I can DPS freely until I perceive any party member to be in danger of dying, which may be a vastly different amount of HP than another healer would consider, and can be a vastly different number depending on the quality of the group. I usually feel comfortable with my tank so long I keep them above triple digit HP, though I don't toe this line constantly, when I'm DPS'ing hard during trash (excepting a planned Benediction), or closer to 65% against bosses. DD's I won't leave sitting around for long at less than 60%, as their overall squishiness means a mistake could prove lethal, so I'd rather them topped off sooner rather than later.

Stance dancing just comes down to your own comfort level, and is probably different for every healer out there. If you only feel comfortable putting on CS, throwing out two DoT's, and coming out of CS right when it comes off CD, do that. If you feel confident and edgy, take a calculated risk in your favor to eke out some extra DPS, but don't get greedy and let the tank die, it makes you come off as sloppy, rather than an efficient healer that knows the outer limitations of your party.

[firstsin]

Only things i don't like about healers DPS'ing is when my attcks miss.

I was in T13 last night, one run all of my holy attacks hit and there was at least one crit per holy. The next run my holy missed, my stone 2 missed and my Aero's missed. I was looking at my MP and watching it drop from 4k to 1k and the adds were still alive.