Healer Confessions

[Yukariko]

Another confession i forgot

me and a healer friend ran ST together and a black mage in our party died and gave the comment "not a single heal" well... don't say that to 2 slightly crazy scholars, after that every time the black mage took even the slightest bit of damage we spammed them with heals/sheilds/stoneskins/eye for an eye everything!. until after a while he said "Are you two bots?" ...

[Lunaxia]

For a while when I first started healing, I used to get impatient with other players very easily (especially DPS and squishy tanks), and got frustrated when they constantly needed babysitting through standing in AoEs, taking on avoidable status effects, having underlevelled gear, etc., to the point it was starting to affect my enjoyment of the role and I kept getting frustrated. I realised the problem was with me, and that it was my job (within reason) to put up with and heal players out of their mistakes or accidents.

So I started looking at parties as if they were children. Really big, sometimes very stupid children who walk into bombs and fire who need me to look out for them and help them when necessary.

Sounds kind of silly, but it helps stop me from ripping the head off the would-be tank DRG who walks into every attack the dungeon can throw out if I imagine him as a particularly clueless toddler.

[LDR]

Back when CT runs where the weekly jam and tuesdays was filled with fast runs and high geared people, myself and a friend would make it our mission to cause as much havoc and death as possible; typically as WHM/SCH.

separate and kill the adds at zombie dreg? nah son eos gun tank 5 of them on one platform and wipe half the raid while we power thru with cure3 and stuff
who's tanking IG at KB?, WHM ofc

and our personal fav
ancient flare - media 2 timed to hit just as IG's spawn, followed by PoM cure3's. what do you mean I'm not meant to drag all 3 to myself and WHM tank

[Adrasteia]

I still don't have Dissipation because of what an awful ability is. No one's ever noticed.

[AlphaFox]

If a DPS pulls the mob I will refuse to heal them as its not their job to pull. Will also refuse to raise people who are constantly dying to simple mechanics or not following what is being said. As for commends, I also refuse to commend a silent tank when everyone else says hello. May be a stupid reason to some but I am social and kind for the most part, if I can't even get a hello from you (unless the DPS are just awful) you can kiss my commend goodbye xD

[winsock]

Once while leveling SCH, I received tam-tara NM on roulette. After a few mins into the run, I just wasn't feeling it. I had eos summoned, put the tank on follow, eos to auto, and went afk for a large chunk.

[Khalithar]

I enjoy having bad groups from time to time, it's like playing the game on a Hard or Expert difficulty.

[SlyRoyale]

Spoiler'd because this confession is a bit, shall I say..."revealing?"

I get this satisfying sense of sado-masochism whenever I play as a healer, which I don't get from the other two roles. While I consider myself to be bad at it, it feels really good when I'm able to DPS and keep everyone alive. I also get some kicks from "getting (too) friendly" with any of the cute characters DF pairs me up with, yet I cease this fooling around when someone makes it clear that they're not comfortable with it. This feeling is further accentuated when they are tanks. It makes me want to "bully" them, keh heh heh heh. Healing is the only role that makes me feel this way, and it makes my gaming experience that more enriching.

[SwordswornFox]

I've let tanks die in retaliation for them not using their aoe agro moves in dungeons. After me or other members of the party have asked/told/pleaded or begged(I have done all in a single run) for them to use it, I just focus on keeping the dps and myself upright and let the tank flounder.

[File2ish]

That healer that keeps healing you even if you're being a dick to everyone? That's me. I'm a nice guy.

Tanking though, you pull for me too many times and I'll assume you're the tank. This isn't FFXI, DDs (DPS) aren't designated pullers for tanks to provoke off of. And healers? Please don't...