Dear White Mages

[Serret]

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literally intended for the OP ^^

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I think we could all generalize about bad healers or tanks.

Fluid Aura can be a very good skill if used appropriately.
While I don't necessarily do this myself, I could argue that by pushing an add away from the party and binding it for 5s I'd be reducing the overall dmg received and buying some extra time to heal.
So one could also use the skill as extra mitigation if the tank has too much on their back.

Also, if the tank has angeraggro management issues, you can't expect the healer not to use Fluid Aura to push the add away

When I use Fluid for DPS on 4m, I tend to point it at a wall as to not disturb the melee DPS which quite frankly are the only ones who have a legitimate reason to complain here.
If a tank has aggro problems over a single Fluid Aura use then... I needn't say anything else as you can take an intelligent conclusion about this...

[Scholar-]

I literally use this all the time so my dps is higher. I figure... most dps are extremely greedy and eat every aoe possible or ignore mechanics just to improve dps, so why can't i?

Divine seal- medica 2 - regen - asylum. Cleric stance - aero3 - swift cast holy - assize - presence of mind HOLYHOLYFLUIDAURAHOLYHOLY

see white mages have an aoe rotation too. What I specificslly like to do is make sure a bard plays foe req so my deeps is higher, but then again who I am kidding LOL they will never do that cause they're only concerned about themselves.

Oh, if I happen to pull aggro while dpsing Paladins if you do not cover(you know that skill that probably isn't even on half of your hot bars?) me then you have no one to blame but yourself.

[rawker]

If transferred damage is subject to my reductions, sure. But if not, you should've thought twice for ripping hate off PLDs.

[Scholar-]

If transferred damage is subject to my reductions, sure. But if not, you should've thought twice for ripping hate off PLDs.

Ur right lol easier just to spam cure 3 and heal everyone to full at the same time not often that a tank uses cool downs anyway hahA. RIP aggro when ur healing at nearly 9-10k HP per GCD

[Blessedbythesun]

I feel op's paid. I raged quit out of a dungeon while leveling PLD for the same reason. The WHM would use Fluid aura, without fail or warning. He let me die 3 times in the first 10 mins of the dungeon because he "got caught up in DPSing"

So no, on trash mobs, unless you as a WHM are in danger because the PLD can't hold hate, there is absolutely no benefit in pissing the tank off just like we don't want tanks pissing us off.

[Dante_V]

It's a situational skill for sure. If you are just arbitrarily knocking mobs back with it you are going to decrease overall team dps.

[Umbra42]

I only use it when I know it is a kill shot. Then I say, " Get out of my FACE" as its corpse flys, cuz I'm wierd like that.

[higherho]

The WHM would use Fluid aura, without fail or warning. He let me die 3 times in the first 10 mins of the dungeon because he "got caught up in DPSing

Just because one WHM does it or a certain % doesn't mean you should expect the whole lot of us to suffer because those people do not understand or can play their class to the fullest. Fluid Aura works really well and you can crit it up to 2.2k (at least with my current gear I've seen it crit that). If a WHM is DPSing he or she should use that skill but use it wisely. I agree there is rarely an instance were you need to get a mob off a tank (I only did this a few times because he was squishy and could not take all the hits. I used fluid aura, bound it, then put it to sleep and went back to healing the squishy tank). But yea the point of the story is a lot of people do not experiment or know the full abilities of their class.

[Blessedbythesun]

The whole issue is pretty much the same with caster carby and Garuda. WHM should learn when to use Fluid Aura and understand that there is no conventional use for it party settings when dealing with mobs susceptible to knock back. At most, it is annoying, at worst it is aggravating when used frequently. By no means am I judging all WHM, because I've seen pretty bad SCH when I have been playing other jobs and even now with AST. This is a player issue, not the job.

[416to305]

I think this thread should be flipped around because if all you are mad at you fluid aura, there's like 100 times more things that tanks do that if piss us off more than we do, like pulling way too big most times and then running to the next pull while we have 10% hp left after using it all to keep your ass alive in your over pull.