Why do Healers...

[Nadirah]

I'm guessing you don't play on a PC then because clicking with the mouse on the party frames is very easy and there's no quicker way to target people.

F1-F4.

Up to F8 in full party.

[Evangela]

1. Have more than enough MP and time to waste.
2. Lazy. Don't want to look at the party list to see who need heal so Medica them all even if some of them don't need.
3. Swiftcast is down. But usually I'll do Presence of Mind - Raise if it's really needed.

[Cynfael]

There are things I've noticed when DPSing/ co-healing that some healers do that really bug me.

1) Why do healers cast Stoneskin/ Protect when there are still some people watching the cutscene? You're just going to have to cast it again in a few seconds, why not just wait and save your mana?

2) Casting Medicas when only one or two people really need healing, to the point their go to reaction seems to be Medica II > Cure II. ??? It's such a waste of mana and drives me insane. It doesn't even grant enough HP for the people that you're doing it for.

3) Not resurrecting your co-healer if they die (and there's plenty of time/mana.) Why? Is it out of some sort of perverse need to try and solo it? Your fellow healer isn't your rival, they're your friend. Saw this on Shiva, they were flinging Cures at players with 95% HP almost the whole time while the other one just lay there.

Anyone else noticed this? Or do you have any gripes about odd healer habits?

I see this thread isn't going to die yet, so I'll bite.

1) Because it takes if the slowpokes pop in as you finish casting. If not, casting again is not a hardship.

2) Usually player error. I do think that some healers just hit whichever button produces the biggest lens flares and the most sparkles.

3) If my co-healer is terrible, I won't make rezzing them a priority. I'll do it when Swiftcast is up or during a transitional phase where I have nothing else to do, just to be polite. In other cases the fight might be nearly over, so I'll continue pushing DPS as I heal, especially if Swiftcast isn't going to be up for a bit. Otherwise I don't know why a healer would neglect rezzing unless they're simply incompetent.

[Eul]

1) Why do healers cast Stoneskin/ Protect when there are still some people watching the cutscene? You're just going to have to cast it again in a few seconds, why not just wait and save your mana? The mana regen faster when you're not in battle so you could spam protect/succor/aspected all time you want

2) Casting Medicas when only one or two people really need healing, to the point their go to reaction seems to be Medica II > Cure II. ??? It's such a waste of mana and drives me insane. It doesn't even grant enough HP for the people that you're doing it for. They have mind that if they cast Medica II it has regen buff (But I still don't know why people do this lol

3) Not resurrecting your co-healer if they die (and there's plenty of time/mana.) Why? Is it out of some sort of perverse need to try and solo it? Your fellow healer isn't your rival, they're your friend. Saw this on Shiva, they were flinging Cures at players with 95% HP almost the whole time while the other one just lay there. Not for Frontline/PvP. You need resurrect other team no matter what.

It's my opinion though.

[justinjarjar]

OSnip

Never played an fps. I have dysgraphia, if that matters at all? The "OCD" is more of, the magizenes are not stacked in the waiting room *spend time stacking turn to friend* "look I am so OCD." (End play all laugh society ends no one notices)

[Slib]

There are things I've noticed when DPSing/ co-healing that some healers do that really bug me.

1) Why do healers cast Stoneskin/ Protect when there are still some people watching the cutscene? You're just going to have to cast it again in a few seconds, why not just wait and save your mana?

I do this because I know the impatient people will run ahead as soon as possible (the ones not doing the cutscene).

If you get them buffed before hand, you're safe. The people finishing the cutscene generally don't run in like a person farming the content would. Also mana was never an issue outside of combat ><

[Sanguisio]

I'm guessing you don't play on a PC then because clicking with the mouse on the party frames is very easy and there's no quicker way to target people.

obvs not sherlock...........

[Leiloni]

obvs not sherlock...........

Some people don't click, they use the F keys which is a lot slower. Or some other keybind to toggle through friendlies. It was worth asking. No need to be a jerk about it. Shoot some people don't even keybind their skills. I saw a level 60 healer streaming things like Alex Normal and Ravana Ex yesterday, clicking every single spell.

[Saggo]

Some people don't click, they use the F keys which is a lot slower.

Maybe not faster, but it's not really slower.

[Bovinity]

Your feelings got hurt from a simple question from an action I see from a lot from healers when I'm on my DPS job. Interesting.

I guess some people don't DPS and/or react as I have stated. Again, interesting.

Proactive vs. reactive, big big difference in skill.

WHM has no issues at all with maintaining a tank that's being hit hard, but none of those options are really "proactive" anyway. (Unless you consider precasting Cure to be "proactive" in which case that's a pretty loose usage of the word)