Healer Confessions

[Amiaze]

something surprises me alot though in all these posts....to know that fellow healers do all they can to wipe a group or make other people life miserable..just bcause some cant play their role properly or as you see it, doesnt mean you should kill them on purpose....

That's not really how it goes. I've noticed that, unless someone has played a healer class before, they really don't do anything to make our jobs easier. I've had runs where DPS would stand in AoE's AND DoTs, tanks would make massive pulls and use no CDs, etc. The same players often run outside of healing range and bring their AoEs and tethers to me. It's the inconsiderate players that we'll sometimes let die, sometimes for our own good, not players that "don't do their jobs" well. I personally don't care how low your DPS is or how squishy my tank is; so long as they do their part in staying alive and not creating chaos by ignore mechanics, we're fine.

[Saseal]

All of this

^ All of that

The times I 'let' a person die is if they're indirectly putting the rest of the group in danger by splitting my attention, causing me to run back and forth at bad times, or they're literally a waste of mp (and I don't mean that in an insulting way... I mean that in a "I'm running out of mp curing/raising you because you don't want to move" way). Even if it's a genuine mistake - decisions must be made.

I will not kill the many, just because the one refuses to cooperate or be more attentive to their surroundings.
Even if that means letting a person die so I can transplant them where they NEED to be, because no one else, in a raid of 4-5 other healers, is obviously going to help/helping them >_> *Ala pagan knot area of Void Ark...*

There are at some points where my patience is gone - I do take it upon myself to ignore their HP for a short time to teach them that I won't be walked on/their personal heal monkey when I've the rest to worry about, as well. But this all depends on what I've observed them doing, or saying, or acting, too. Being an ass puts them on my lowest list to help.... >_> If they're notably getting D/C symbol every now and then, prior to their oopsies, I hold nothing against them and assume it's lag. If it's a person with a bad/rude disposition and pulling ahead of the tank, etc.... well, I'll only prioritize healing them through it if it means it keeps the others safe. I won't pretend to be a goodiegoodie and heal everyone equally for players with poor attitudes that don't deserve it. Personal skill is not in the equation - you can just tell when someone is being lazy.

[valoiz2]

My biggest sin is that sometimes... sometimes I forgot I am the healer and the tanks die on me also Eos is lazy, she should be healing right? lol

[Raji_Lev]

Like so many others in this thread, I deliberately avoid cleansing Pacification off of WARs who use a "Berserk wearing off" macro

ETA: Also, if that macro in question is a countdown macro (i.e. "Pacification in 3 / 2 / 1"), then that WAR had better be popping his cooldowns like clockwork and/or loaded up with VIT, cause I am not even going to drop Cleric Stance until I've finished casting all my DoTs. Not going to (deliberately) not heal him, just make him sweat a little /fakeinnocentsmile

[Hezrou]

When I heal, 9/10 i'm watching YouTube because after playing whack-o-mole with HP bars for over 11 years...You can heal in your sleep.

Also when a tank decides to be a dick and act like im not a person and just rushes into things while I only have like 100 mana left...yeah. Someone is going to die. A lot.

Sometimes I like to knock a mob back just to watch them congo line back to said mob lol dance puppets dance.

[Santherelle]

I hate rolled on an item in void Ark so my co-healer (who was little to no help during the whole dungeon) wouldn't get it.

Even though I already had a better item equipped.

[Shyluv]

As WHM, if a dps was doing good and then derped, I would say "please don't die" as the cure was being cast.

As AST, if a dps was doing good but then derped, I say "no! Not the enhanced card I gave you!" and hope I have a benefic 2 proc, just for a more immediate peace of mind. No pun intended.

[Saseal]

-At one point, I never used Celestial opposition (even though I've been AST-ing more than WHM-ing as of recent) in the assumption that it was just a stun.
I didn't read the whole description, ages ago when I first got it.

-I remember going into Void Ark on WHM, with an AST co-healer, seeing them use Celestial Opp for seemingly no reason/at random and I remember thinking to myself, "lawl must have been a miss-click?", as I never see ASTs use it

-Some weeks-ish later, I was reading posts in one of the posts in here and realized.... it added +5 seconds to everything (buffs, HoTs, etc).... and remembering that AST from VA... and realizing I've been the derp for ignoring CO's existence.
Now I always use it.... and wonder if people think I'm being derpy/don't know everything that it does

-I still google a chunk of skill names, every time I mention them in posts, because I remember the icons more than the actual skill names >_>

-Several times I'll roll into Bismark, etc in trial roul, and forget I still have malefic I in my main attack spot (instead of Malefic II, which I have off to the side for when it's sync'd out). Then cry because Malefic II is so highly visible when I suddenly do switch it, mid-way, that it looks like I wasn't helping DPS the chiton/etc...

[Atoli]

Once again, I'm amazed how evil the seemingly most helpful players in the game are xD

My most recent confession:
After raging for months about how much I despise lazy healers who only heal and refuse to dps (especially SCHs, who can let the fairy do 95% of the work!) on the forums, I decided to conduct an experiment.
I once said "I don't even understand HOW they can do that. I'd be super bored just standing there for several seconds or minutes without doing anything!" so I wanted to test if I could actually keep myself from touching CS and my attack skills.
Since I was leveling SCH at the time, I went into low lvl roulette, put out Eos (I normally use Selene), set her on doing all her skills by herself, put myself on auto-follow and.....realized I could go watch a movie, get all the exp, finish the dungeon without ever having touched any button, and even getting all the commendations too xD
Naturally, I proceeded to do the whole thing 3 more times until I got my level up and had finished watching my movie.
I have since stopped, because what's the point of playing a game if you aren't actually playing? But tbh, I now slightly do understand why some healers rather go for the lazy healer route..

[SaitoHikari]

To the tank in Sohm Al that I was with yesterday:

Sorry for letting you die to the same huge pull near the start twice. I am not even sure what happened to me there to have that happen TWICE IN A ROW (and then have you give up on me afterwards, can't say I blame you).

...

*sobs in a corner*