Please, stop with your backseat healing!

[Malicewolf]

/comfort

True, for dps's to go all heal crazy because of hp down to 50-75%, it's a little much. Unless your in hard mode titan... Then give me all the heals... seriously. All of them.

[queengarnet]

I have had to heal because the healer was not healing me at the time. You have to do what you have to do. I died in a dungeon.

[Critical-Limit]

Wow it's totally possible they are just new players or haven't been told why not to do that, or came from somewhere where 50% hp was super dangerous.

Just correct them as you go, if they ignore you then then making a thread won't help them, someone that clueless probably is doing zero online research as is.

I feel like sometimes these people who complain on the board witness these things, are too afraid to confront that person. Wait til the dungeon is over then go complain about it. It's not such a common occurance that it warrants it's own thread IMO.

[Dotsusama]

Did you stop to recommend to the player not to bother with healing in TTD? Because if they were a Lancer (note: Dragoon can't have any healing spells) then they were either new to the class, new to instanced content, or new to the game in general. Perhaps they're from a game like GW2 where abilities that heal or support other party members was just part of completing team content fast and efficiently.

You don't have to come here and tell *US* to not do this, because it's not actively helping. I wonder how many players actually come and look at a thread like this specific one and then actually learn from it. Just because such an idea is a no-brainer to you, I, and others who have been playing the game longer, doesn't mean that it's something that should be assumed common knowledge. But that knowledge is useless to educating a new player if you don't stop to take the time to tell them about it when it comes up.

[Atoli]

Did you stop to recommend to the player not to bother with healing? [...] But that knowledge is useless to educating a new player if you don't stop to take the time to tell them about it when it comes up.

We do. Every. single. time.
And they just keep doing it. It's especially bad when even high-lvl players do it. I feel like just no longer healing and leaving it to the self-proclaimed back-up-healers (BLMs and SMNs) in lvl 60 roulette who STILL think their 150 healing potency heal is gonna be helpful.
(And I'm not talking about self-heal or a situation where the healer is dead and maybe your crappy little heal DID save the run. I'm talking about those people who think they know better how to judge when a tank is in danger and start spamming their mini-heal even with the healer alive and well right beside them...)

[TitaniaYaerem]

I struggle to grasp why a dps would want to backseat heal, unless for whatever reason the healer dies. Even then....I still don't heal if the boss is close to being dead.

[Sida]

I struggle to grasp why a dps would want to backseat heal, unless for whatever reason the healer dies. Even then....I still don't heal if the boss is close to being dead.

Here is one way how it goes. The player is used to play a healer, the sort of healer that casts cure spell for every single booboo, essentially chain healing where most of the heal goes to waste. They roll dps because, well, see other classes, end up with a healer who doesn't do that, and panic. And it doesn't even need to be one of those healers that play chicken with tank hp. Some over reacting people see a healer that just leaves room enough for a single heal spell to fit, say, 70% of tanks health, as major catastrophe happening, and feel the healer is not doing their job because when they play healer themselves it never happens to them. Because the overheal. I would wager majority of dps players who do this have played healer to some extent.

Note, I'm talking specifically of those who pitch in with healing when there is absolutely no need for it. Actually helping with heals when the situation calls for it is completely another bowl of soup.

[Zaj_Quilos]

*thing happens to me twice so i'll post a thread telling everyone to stop doing the thing that never really happens*

[bounddreamer]

*thing happens to me twice so i'll post a thread telling everyone to stop doing the thing that never really happens*

If it had happened to me only twice, I wouldn't be raging over it. I have a pretty long fuse.

[Fevelle]

*thing happens to me twice so i'll post a thread telling everyone to stop doing the thing that never really happens*

*thing never happened to me so I'll post a reply on the forum trying to belie other players' experiences on this matter*