Healer Confessions

[ruskie]

Really depends for me... I've had some really bad tanks, healers and dps that just couldn't stay alive no matter how much I tried. After the third rez you kinda give up on them. This led to a Iffy hm run that lasted 15 minutes or so with the only people still alive being the MT, myself on WHM and other WHM that I had to rez once. With myself and the MT the only two that never died - rezed all the other DPS multiple times.

Someone once mentioned that the WHM idle stance is to cutesy... just look at that smile... it's the smile of someone that knows they have your life in their hands are just contemplating what to do with it mwahahahahahaha.

But yeah might avoid healing DPS that pull ahead of tanks - and my friends do the same - be them on tank or heal. One DPS was amazed when one of my tank friends told him there's this interesting strategy he's following... called tank pulls. I couldn't stop laughing at that.

[Odd]

I leave parties that don't wait for buffs at the start. Don't have time to wait for protect? I don't have time to be here.

[Yukariko]

I leave parties that don't wait for buffs at the start. Don't have time to wait for protect? I don't have time to be here.

I just don't re-cast it, you run out of range you don't get it, then I get to watch you burn.

[OfTheWhitewind]

I was told to kite the adds for the first boss in Cutter's Cry. Being pretty brand new to MMORPGS (this is my first one ever!) I had never heard the term before nor had I ever done this strategy here during previous runs.

I told them I didn't know what that was so I was offered a brief explanation. ("Just run.") Then off we went. I started to kite the adds but neither DPS were picking them off and they weren't killing the boss fast enough either. I tried to stop and heal myself but, of course, I was immediately murdered by the adds. In the end we won the fight right as I died so it was no big deal... except one DPS began to be super passive aggressive and generally bitchy at me for my inability to kite properly and how "wow I guess we weren't clear! Kiting means run as in move your legs!" And they just kept going on like that.

So when we got to the last boss I stopped healing, let myself die and then left the dungeon.

[LDR]

Paying to much attention to mobs HP bars and getting cleric dots out and then suddenly I'm taking agro or a dps is and, oh, oops the tank died i didn't even see

Or wondering why I'm giving it my all but the tanks hp bar is sitting still, oh cleric still on again

I've also been known to purposely let a tank die and then sufficiently keep the dps and myself alive while also providing dps just to prove a point

and my regards for others safety and risks is null and void, ill egg you on into doing a stupid impossible pull for giggles

then theres the times ill let my co healer die if they annoy me and comfortably solo heal just to rub it in how much i don't need them anyway this run

but my fav is when i solo heal a solo tank ramuh ex and run right around and infront of ramuh in the "instant kill tank buster zone" right around the times it goes off and narrowly avoiding it just to make my tank possibly cry and shit themselves

~the party doesn't start till everyone is at 3HP~

[nexas506]

Here's my second confession.
I have a bad habit of forgetting about cleric stance. The partys usually don't mind if i own up to it.
And a lot of time i hit the Sprint button by accident instead of a heal.

[AlannahCorvaine]

I'm that healer that will heal you back to full even if you only took a smidgeon of damage. I have control issues. :/

And sometimes in CT I liked to get a little bit aggressive just to see how many adds I could healtank.

[Alahra]

I'm that healer that will heal you back to full even if you only took a smidgeon of damage. I have control issues. :/

I do this too, at least with the tank. Depleted health bars bother me. I'm a mediocre WHM because of it, as I often can't wait for Regens to do their work.

[MXMoondoggie]

I'm that healer that will heal you back to full even if you only took a smidgeon of damage. I have control issues. :/

And sometimes in CT I liked to get a little bit aggressive just to see how many adds I could healtank.

Aggressive is the only way I play content I've done before lol. Especially if I get a decent Tank I take that as a sign to go nuts. Had a guy the other day like "This is the first time in ages I needed to keep my combo up on everything to hold threat" So then it's just a challenge for me trying to pull threat off him. I couldn't but it was fun making him work for it XD.

[adn]

Was leveling my WHM alt the other day and decided to do leveling roulette, got the Aery.

Everything seemed OK up until the first boss, DPS maybe a little slow on trash mobs but hey that's OK, right...? (wrong!)

The DPS were actually so slow/bad that we used up all of the pillars on the first boss and spent ages killing it. Bear in mind that all of these players had done this instance before, and I have had groups of all new players when HW first came out that killed the boss faster than that.

Needless to say I peaced out. I do not play a healer to hand-hold terrible DPS through content. The grocery store was also closing in 20 minutes and I needed to pick up milk.