Healer Confessions

[Santherelle]

The lala jokes here aren't funny. And the taru jokes were funny because they were mostly about tarus up to evil schemes and whatnot(brought on due to the fact that a lot of taru story NPCs were villains - I mean it was THREE of them that destroyed Garliage Citadel) and not doing dirty little nasty things to them.

I do in fact believe the poster is telling the truth <_< and is just one more reason why I'm glad I'm a healer.

You seem a little..... Short tempered.

[Ranulf]

I'm generally good about cleansing debuffs, but if you're getting them due to lack of effort when it's avoidable, say the paralyze from the first boss in Void Ark or the Puke from Cuchulainn, I'll let you die on purpose.

Sorry, if you're going to half arse your job, so am I.

[bounddreamer]

As AST I will show my friends and FC mates preferential treatment with an extra long or extra strong balance or arrow. Hey, I know they'll make good use of it.

[Nekotee]

Cuchy is really the boss were you have to carefully manage your mana because of some idiotic death that need raise...
Except for the pull... I usually can't DPS because there is'so much healing to do...

And one thing i enjoy the most...
Leaving a DPS die because he think that running at the opposite of me is cool to heal XP
Sorry but i won't run after your sorry ass and leave the tank to die !

So the DPS die, i step on his body... And maybe i slowly cast a raise... Without swiftcast ...
To show him that he is not my priority and that I will stop cast if I need to'save my life !

[Sida]

If some dmg decide to "help" tank by pulling more than the tank was going to, I wait to see if the tank will pick the stuff up and only then heal them. If the tank decides they can tank what they pulled, then I decide they can heal themselves as well.

And yes, I know there is sometimes accidental pulls, I have no trouble with that. This meant those dps that run forward to next or two groups and then run back to tank with train of monsters.

[Auxilio]

Yay, let another tank die on purpose at Fractal's final boss.

He had it coming though, didnt hold aggro , didnt provoke incoming patrol monsters, didnt interrupt mob casts, didnt communicate.. and didnt get out of aoes. When I asked if he spoke English/Jap/German/FR , he replied "I can speak final boss anyway who cares". Pissing douchebag.

DPS did their job perfectly and killed off final boss. We left after that and I didnt bother resurrecting him. Felt a little bad but pffft, do not piss us healers off :<

[roachsrealm]

was in the Vault at the mid boss and was so focused on keeping everyone alive I forgot to heal myself.

the MCH was able to get the boss down, but they went down at the same time, and due to post-death taunting from the boss it reset.

sad panda.

[Zadocfish]

We had FC tank do a bit race hopping, and his opinion was that the low camera angle on lala makes it extremely harder than on some taller race. So more power to you if you master the lala tanking ^^

Actually, you can adjust your camera height in Settings. Putting the camera height to 50 gives you the same angle you get with Hyur PCs. That helps quite a bit!

To stay on topic, on my first time Healing in a dungeon, I only attacked about 5 times in the entire dungeon. Because it was low-level, there wasn't even much healing to do; I spent most of the dungeon literally doing nothing waiting for my party's HP to fall so I could heal them. I THOUGHT at the time that I was keeping myself ready to heal at any time, but in retrospect I wasn't pulling my weight at all... AND I took one of the pieces of loot.

[CyrilLucifer]

To stay on topic, on my first time Healing in a dungeon, I only attacked about 5 times in the entire dungeon. Because it was low-level, there wasn't even much healing to do; I spent most of the dungeon literally doing nothing waiting for my party's HP to fall so I could heal them. I THOUGHT at the time that I was keeping myself ready to heal at any time, but in retrospect I wasn't pulling my weight at all... AND I took one of the pieces of loot.

It's fine when you're just learning to heal to play cautiously. I don't think anyone will criticize you for that; as long as you did your job, they've no reason to complain. Once you're more comfortable with it, you can start stance dancing with Cleric. You can't expect the confidence and knowledge of enemy damage right from the start.

When I can't Stance Dance, I personally get either:
1. Bored out of my mind when I just sit there and cure when I could be doing other things.
2. Extremely frustrated, because the tank is taking way too much damage and not using CDs, so I'm basically spamming on him constantly just to keep him alive.

It'll probably be the same for you, eventually. So don't push it.

[zuzu-bq]

When we form up clear/teaching parties for some FC members that want to touch the end game content, I usually let them die to mechanics they got wrong even if they can be healed. Just so they can learn that some spots aren't safe.