Healer Confessions

[Cynfael]

Since you will never compensate a real DPS you're just causing loss of raid-dps. /shrug
Healer dps is futile if on cost of DPS dps.

I wouldn't be so quick to call this out. I've witnessed DPS bad enough that they consistently fall below what the healer can produce.

Personally I have a difficult time allowing others to die even when they should. However, if someone dies repeatedly for no good reason or is endangering others by failing at mechanics, I will leave them on the floor.

[Pells]

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If you're not comfortable with a player initiate a kickvote. But don't let the other two players suffer just because you want to teach a single dumbass a lesson.

These are confessions (see the post title); the posters already know their behavior is bad form. It's also highly likely to be a shared experience among healers.

There's no need to call anyone out here or educate them on proper play.

[Pentacus]

I like to wait for the SCH, AST or PLD to Stoneskin the entire party before I swiftcast Stoneskin II. Sometimes I stare them in the eyes before doing it.

If you cast protect after I already have protect on the party, I WILL cast protect again, also whilst staring at the other healer's eyes.

I did it first. the protect is MINE.

[Saseal]

- Bismark NM, back around EA.... SMN refused to get out of the blue circles... after emergency healing the guy so many times while I was DPSing to help with already failing DPS checks (and no one else needing heals), I just started healing him in Cleric and throwing regen on the guy just so I could continue DPSing right after. >.>; I was tired of healing him for avoidable damage....
I felt relieved when he fell off the side - and would hope my co-healer wouldn't raise him when he did die in other attempts...

- Bad WoD runs.... when majority of the alliances are dead and it's just me, a tank, a DPS or two... I'm that guy elongated the fight by keeping the tank alive in hopes of pulling off a miracle and start raising healers - and too focused to see anything else..... while everyone's yelling to wipe it z.z

- I never remember I'm allowed to Healer LB in A4, when shit is happening ._. (Too used to DPS using it already or only DPS allowed to use it) - and once again, too focused on the task of surviving/keeping the rest alive to see the chat box exploding with "Healer LB!"

- DPS pulled in WoD. I let them die. :3

- Semi-related... before HW changes... Every time I DFed into Garuda EX on BRD, I hoped it would be a struggling group -just- so I can Healer LB >.>;; *Terrible*
- On WHM this time... every time I had DFed into Garuda EX, I hoped it would be a struggling group just so I'd have a bit of a challenge >.>;
- I used to think the same way for WoD, sometimes >.> (until it's terribad to the point that I needed to throw the tale into Healer horrors)

- I have a healer confession involving AST, already, in the healer horror thread.
Terrible card play and burning all the useful cards in the most dumbest ways.
3am was quite unkind to me \o/
I'm still not very good at it.

- I back-seat heal at my monitor, out loud, while I'm on my MNK in higher level content since I've ran that content on WHM so damn much >.>; (but I don't generally say anything in chat)

- I go through more MP than I probably should, when I aggressively DPS in lvl60 dungeons, when I DF in with an FC tank (IE, I trust him that I don't have to babysit)

- Loud mouth DPS in a DF'ed Titan EX. I refused to heal the guy and left the co-healer to be the only one to heal him... >.>; *Terrible ._.*

[Rin_Kuroi]

I reworked my keybings and action bar placement a while ago. Last week I went into a derpy a4. I was the last alive and just barely got limit 3. I hit my keybind. Nothing. Again and still nothing. Again. Again. Dead. After the group abandoned I realized I had bound auto attack to my limit break keybind. I had been staring at the auto attack icon for weeks and never noticed.

Not sure if this is the kind of confession you're looking for but I had to tell someone

[Anova]

Whenever I'm bored, I see how low I can let the tank's hp drop before I heal them back up to full. it takes some time to do it since I have to force the tank to spend hallowed ground/holmgang/living dead before I can do this.

So yes, as a healer, I take a lot of joy in shortening my tank's life span.

[Noira]

I'll sometimes bring up the internet menu while healing on Sch or Astro (in regen stance) when im bored and tired of dpsing.

[Lunaxia]

Whenever my co-healer recasts Protect and SS after I've already visibly done it (and got everyone), I end up half-assing the fight and leave most of the work to them out of annoyance. It's a huge pet peeve I can't really explain.

And if a party member has a bad/ rude attitude and ends up going down... they don't get back up.

[Lastelli]

T13, 2nd phase, pillar + megaflare followed by rage of bahamut (WHM). The pillar appeared next to me, I went in, "yes, all fine, I got the pillar!" Of course I completely forgot about megaflare+rage of bahamut, no medica II precast, no cure III, wipe.

[NanaWiloh]

I confess I am not the best healer in the game. In mechanic heavy fights there are times when I am stance dancing that I forget to drop out of Cleric stance too heal. I also target the wrong person for healing more often then I can count, this mostly happens with tanks though...Sorry to the Tanks out there