Healer Confessions

[Gemina]

I was doing Garuda Ex in Duty Finder, and the other whm was new, kept dying and causing problems with medica 2 agro. I let him stay dead for the remainder of the fight until we won and just told him I never learned swiftcast. lol

Same thing happened to me in a recent Titan EX run. The WHM just could not stay on her feet, and continued rezzes was only hurting the group. She was new, and did well up until the final phase as most do. She apologized after, and I told her it was perfectly alright, and let her know that no one has killed me more in this game than bloody Titan.

You shouldn't have to make an excuse like that though. Martyrdom as a healer is highly respectable, but certainly not required. Still though, huge e-highfive for that.

[Awful]

Played an enhanced balance on my OT in Soph EX he was out dpsing the dps..Got called out on it and the DPS all went over the edge while me, the tanks and the Sch dpsd the boss down from 15%.

[Averax]

It took me a long time to realize that Synastry gave a potency buff to you whenever you cast it. I'd only been saving it for very specific situations (tank needs constant healing, but so does someone else), treating lightspeed as my only emergency healing cooldown.

I'm so ashamed

Maybe I am misunderstanding since I don't play a healer, but as the risk of suggesting something you've encountered a lot, why don't you just contribute to the DPS if you find yourself doing nothing? I imagine you might feel it's not what you planned on doing when taking on a healer role, but it sounded like you are suggesting you just stand around a lot waiting for any excuse to heal unnecessarily. Just the other day I was helping a friend's alt through Steel Vigil where both I(as a Tank) and the Healer were end-game and you can't really help but do single, 3-enemy pulls for the most part in there. Even in Sword Oath, they were tickling me to the point that the Healer would just keep topping me up to 100% with a single spell every ten seconds or so while standing around doing absolutely nothing otherwise. In those situations, I just can't help but wonder why they wouldn't help. It's fine if it's not what you're interested in but surely if you're bored then at least that way you'll help get the run over with sooner and be done with it?

I do dps in duties, i never said that i didn't, but i really like to heal. I like hard content that forces me to be vigilant for damage. What gets really boring a lot of the times is dpsing (especially if the actual dps are slow) things take forever, spamming stone/malefic/broil gets really boring really fast. I like the huge pulls because they give me something exciting to do, or if i'm on my WHM i'll holy spam (there's nothing quite as satisfying as topping charts with holy).

I feel like i fulfill two roles at the same time, the healer and the third dps, and part of me theorizes that that is why we don't have the traditional 5man setup.

[Cleftobismal]

When I see the Ilvl of the tank is stupidly higher than all the DPS's in a duty. I boost balance the tank all the time and have him/her use the offensive stance at bosses because they will keep aggro anyways from the major gap in dps.

[MPNZ]

I'm just starting to experiment with cleric stance with my whm at lv 54, and there is no way that I am going to CC this onto the other hlr classes, ever.

[VanilleFang]

I'm just starting to experiment with cleric stance with my whm at lv 54, and there is no way that I am going to CC this onto the other hlr classes, ever.

Are you... are you serious?

[Cleftobismal]

I'm just starting to experiment with cleric stance with my whm at lv 54, and there is no way that I am going to CC this onto the other hlr classes, ever.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...arty-instances

See this dear. Please.

[FabricioRF]

I secretly hate tanks that don't pull after I spread galvenize.

[bounddreamer]

I secretly hate tanks that don't pull after I spread galvenize.

I have been known to pull immediately after a galvanize so it isn't wasted, even if the party is taken aback.

My own confession: if a dps gets double weakness I just leave them there and concentrate on buffing the remaining dps. This happened last week in Wiping City.

I started giving extended Balances to the one BLM who never died.

[MPNZ]

Are you... are you serious?

Yes... Well, there is like a 30-40% chance that it wont deactivate when I press it because I pressed it too early or didn't use enough pressure. So I just ended up deciding to avoid using it entirely, but with Heaven's Ward's focus on DPS and speed: it feels like I have to get used to using it. I wish our attacks scaled with mind instead of Intellegence...

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...arty-instances

See this dear. Please.

Ah, I remember that topic... I think I'll refrain from using it anymore until I know the dungeons and fights better as a hlr. Or, not and treat everything like it's the Stone Vigil.