Healer Confessions

[Anova]

General rule of thumb if dps sits there eating aoe I willl not turn off cleric stance and instead I will throw a regen on them that ticks for 88 hp. They start to move magically.

That is brilliant. Also makes me wonder if the DPS is thinking:
"Uh-oh, this Healer isn't on the ball with cleric stance. I better not chance it."

Being a healer is all about playing mind games with the party.

[Nekotee]

You're Nice enough to use a regen...
I usually wait and poke their still warm dead body

[Jxnibbles]

Well a dead dps does 0 damage. A dps that has 88 hp will still be doing damage and frantically dodging everything.

[Zojha]

I intentionally don't dispel the pacify debuff on undergeared, speedrunning Warriors in the vain hope they'll get the subtle hint.

/truevillain

[Fevelle]

A real confession now:

While I tend to fervently argue about healer DPS, not being our responsability to heal pets and esuning Pacification from Warriors, I actually do these 3 things more often than not. I always find myself spamming Holy on my runs, and to be completely honest I DPS more than most healers I play with (though I tend to not DPS on DF Alexander 3 and 4, because I never know what to expect from the party); I also cast Cure 3's and Regens to help healing Ifrit-egis, and even a focused Cure if needed; and to hell with me if I don't take that Pacification off before it hits 3 seconds timer.

I may sound as an hypocrite by arguing on threads against these things and actually doing them, but I don't want to have the added responsability to do them, nor do I want the playerbase to become even more toxic and begin to require these things from newbies and healers in-training.

I also don't think I'm a good healer, far beyond me, I actually think I'm kind of a mediocre healer (I didn't had the guts to enter Savage yet, because I'm afraid of commiting mistakes and as a social anxious person, the feeling of screwing up while in a pre-formed party scares the hell out of me), but I'm always trying to learn, to see other people's playstyle and change mine to better accomodate my skills and grow.

Well, I got that off of my chest.

[Averax]

If anyone bothers me, I let their health reach sub 5% so i can watch the fear in their eyes as their life is fleeting before them.

Then I use my emergency button.

[Twilite]

Time to put the rod down. For it is rare that I go a run and someone doesn't die. Either I am too slow, or locked behind cleric stance, or just lose control of the flow when lots of damage comes in. Or the whole thing goes smooth until the last boss. No one complains, people say why they died and blame themselves, but I always know better.

[RhapsodyElsmeth]

Me being in a dungeon with my boyfriend tanking. Me telling him to hang on a moment so I can buff. He pulls. I let him die. > I do this with every trigger happy tank.

[Heliantheae]

There was this one time in Hullbreaker Island and I just wasn't paying attention at the start. The tank ran off and did his pulls and the Monk and Archer were DPSing and I was like, "I like that tree. That's a pretty tree. How come the healer hasn't used Protect....OH CRAP." We wiped and the tank said something about smaller pulls and the Monk appologized for not DPSing enough. The archer was staring at me and I was making the :I in real life. The rest of the run went smooth and I got two Coms somehow.

And that's not even the first or last time I zoned out at the start.

[Lmcgyver]

One run in Brayflox's Longstop, I had a BRD who refused to attack what the PLD was attacking, and pulling aggro all the time. I was getting tired of this, and started marking the enemies. This BRD still refused to attack the correct target, so I stopped healing them... sadly, Selene wouldn't, and so the BRD remained doing it. Eventually, mid-fight, I ordered Selene away, and just let the BRD die, then deliberately slow-cast Resurrection on them (once the fight was over). They seemed to get the message after that, the rest of the run went without incident.