The trinity, party responsibility, and how to try and improve the game from within

[Istede]

I am social and friendly but many do not like my playstyle. I am a 100% healer, I do not dps.

I am just curious what you do as a healer that only heals, since there's not one instance in the game where you don't have downtime. Do you just stand around doing nothing? Do you spam heals even when everyone never dips below 95% health? Is that really fun for you?

I am a scholar main and if I didn't have the ability to DPS I wouldn't play the job at all. I've not done A4S yet, nor did I do any real Coil progression (2.55 baby), but I have yet to do a single fight in this game that really taxes my limits as a healer. Maybe a phase here or there where I need to really focus on what I am doing, but an entire fight or dungeon? As far as I know, no such thing exists.

The way I see it, my job isn't ONLY to heal, it's to make the run as fast as possible for everyone. You should be considerate of other peoples' time, and that applies to all roles.

[Fevelle]

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Unless you have every single instance on farm, yes, there's a lot of places where you don't have downtime due to people screwing up and you having to bring them up. Even in Sastasha it's possible to need to heal every GCD, on triple pulls, for example.

[KaitlanKela]

Unless you have every single instance on farm, yes, there's a lot of places where you don't have downtime due to people screwing up and you having to bring them up. Even in Sastasha it's possible to need to heal every GCD, on triple pulls, for example.

But didn't you just prove the point? If you have to triple-pull to get the healer to heal, then that should clue you in to the fact that on a normal-size pull, there's plenty of downtime.

I actually think incentivizing DPS to not just let the healers and tanks pick up the slack is a great idea. That way, everyone is doing as much as they can to clear the instance, instead of just saying "ok, the other jobs will cover it, whatever." Have the game engine reward bonus tomes to players who exceed a pre-determined DPS threshold for the instance (which would be different for each job). Don't even need to publicize the numbers or even who got the bonus within the party. Do it all in the background and give a message to just the player after the instance has ended.