Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Since you're a healer, let me ask you this. You're in a 8-man party. The fights goes with no death, but, in the end, you realize the other healer healed for a noticeable amount below you. Would you say that he failed at his job ?
Lemme try and answer this one. It depends on what he did while he/she wasn't healing. If he/she was standing there spamming a cure every 5 secs and that's it, yes they're an utter failure of a healer regardless of clear or not. If however they used some mitigation skills, DPSed, were removing debuffs and generally contributing to the fight without standing there looking pretty then no, they did not fail. Imo there's only 2 ways a healer "fails". A) If there are consecutive wipes and an inability to clear when everyone else is performing well enough(popping cds etc. while the dps are at good numbers) and following mechanics(aka minimizing damage done) B) When they repeatedly spend more than 2-3secs without casting anything when there's no mp issues and/or movement mechanics involved