Healer Pet Peeves

[Aaran]

I will speak on behalf of tanks even if this is about healers. Bards and Machinists that don't throw mp/to regeneration when we're low. Yea you want to DPS...

What annoys me are those saying SCH is useless; WHM is useless; AST is useless for ____ reason.

Also, what really annoys me is when a bard or machinist pop MP buffs for me when not asked because I'm sitting at low MP. I tend to yell at them, and to have one of my friends tell them I'm actually good at MP management; she'll let you know if she genuinely needs MP. So stop lowering your DPS for something that is my responsibility.

This is why you run in to so many Bards who don't sing lol. I still throw up foes, army for tp or wardens for berserk and such, but i basically never sing mages anymore. You never know if they'll be pissed or not lol.

[Leigaon]

- Ranged dps standing too far apart so my cards/aoe heals never hit everyone. This is why I was so happy to see that the card range was increased....

I never thought about that even though it is obvious for the cards on an AST. That really must be extremely annoying. I've played AST to 60 only in dungeons so far so I have not had that problem, once it is geared though..I'll join in on the rage. I'm sorry though, tossing up an AoE Balance and not seeing that icon go near a ranged..death glare.

...Also, what really annoys me is when a bard or machinist pop MP buffs for me when not asked because I'm sitting at low MP. I tend to yell at them, and to have one of my friends tell them I'm actually good at MP management; she'll let you know if she genuinely needs MP. So stop lowering your DPS for something that is my responsibility.

That's the thing, not everyone is perfect at it, and situations come up that even if you are..you might need it. You can yell at them but just know you're supporting the entire "screw it" factor. I took bard to 60 to find out what all the nagging was about with WM. This was a mixture response, sometimes they would be low and not ask for ballad, until we all die. Then ask why didn't I cast it. Others I go forth and give them some MP unless I see a refresh icon, then it's either a lecture on what an insult it is to the healer as to why I put it up or they thank me.

You could say "Those healers just don't know how to manage their MP, not my fault" you would be right on both. Not your fault and they aren't able to manage MP like you do. Unfortunately they aren't you and I have to adjust for that as being part of a party. Just shows how much communication is important.

Tanks who use zero cooldown. I had one yesterday in the Vault. He died three times on trash pulls. None of those were my fault. ._.

Same. I got a good grasp of how well I can heal you while I'm in DD mode, but when they pull everything, then shove on Berserk.. and going into DD stance, makes things difficult sometimes. It's our fault because we didn't heal them through the 4 AoE's they decided to stand in while taking a tank buster of some sort. Or because we have to focus on other players as well who are getting hit with AoE's. It's not all of them that are doing this, like I said before we try to compensate for where the party lacks..if that's in the area of survival...so be it.

[Dogempire]

I hate when people stand far away from everyone else to the point I can't heal them with aoe heals.

Also tanks who stand around when I deployment tactics everyone.

[Supersun]

Once had a tank DEMAND that I only heal him if he went below 10%. Didn't listen to that stupid request (of course) and he just left. It still bothers me.

Honestly, if he was a Paladin (or pre-nerf War), I could understand why he would say that.

If the Pld can keep himself alive so you can keep DPSing it'll be a lot more on trash then the Pld DPSing and you healing.

[TaleraRistain]

Tanks who either don't have the gear or the CD management abilities for big pulls
Tanks who insist on big pulls even when we don't have high AoE capability
Anyone who stands in the stupid
Doubly the people who do this and then bitch that they die
If I say I need a minute, I need a minute. You rush into the arena and good luck healing yourself
Other players being backseat healers in DF - I know what I need to do and I will do it and you'll just have to deal if it's not the exact way you would do it
The ranged DPS who thinks being in the next country is the right spot

Oh and the tank who doesn't know how to keep the mob pointed away from us

[Cidel]

When my WHM or D.AST co-healer only cares about nuking and never ever put their HoT on the tank.

Oh Seven Hells, this. If I'm getting delegated to Noct stance if I'm paired with a 2nd AST (who makes no indication of leaving Diurnal upon loading-in), the Diurnal one better be making liberal use of their HoTs.

More co-healer pet peeves:

Second ASTs in general. Cards overwrite each other, if you ever overwrite my Extended/Enhanced Balances/Arrows with something like Expanded Spires/Spears, you forfeited my commendation.

When the duty commences and I cast protect on everyone (yes everyone, nobody is left in a cutscene) and my co-healer feels the need to recast protect a few seconds afterwards. No MP wasted, hardly any time wasted, and yet it feels like my co-healer is going out of their way to overwrite my buff with theirs for god-knows what reason.

"We're gonna get along just fine."

[Norune]

When I'm playing as AST/SCH and my co-healer is a WHM who insists on casting protect pre-pull. Please, let me cast protect, you have the precious stoneskin II, use this time to hard cast it. Nothing irks me more than having to wait those extra few seconds while the WHM overwrites my protect and then still has to cast SSII.

[Fernosaur]

Please, let me cast protect, you have the precious stoneskin II, use this time to hard cast it.

my co-healer feels the need to recast protect a few seconds afterwards. No MP wasted, hardly any time wasted, and yet it feels like my co-healer is going out of their way to overwrite my buff with theirs for god-knows what reason.

There's nothing I hate more than double Protect casts. Even when I'm on PLD and I get a WHM on 4-mans, I'll cast Protect asap so that they can start casting SSII, but they always overwrite my Prot after just hanging out doing nothing for like 10 seconds.

Also in 8-mans, specially when I get AST+SCH I just cast Protect in case they want to Stoneskin every party member separately, but they always overwrite it twice, even.

FFFFFFFFFF

[Fevelle]

Macros for raising that say "Stop being bad and get up" or the like.

Macros for Pacification with countdowns. Please no. If you want to macro your pacification so I can esuna, just say you have Berserk up and I'll keep an eye on the diration of the buff to esuna in the first second of Pacification.

Healing with other WHMs because I feel like they are mimicking me. Seriously. I cast Medica II, they proceed to cast Medica II, I put Regen up, they do the same, even when I use Assize they do it too. URGH

[TaleraRistain]

I encountered another that is more system-caused than player-caused. I hate the fact that other classes who cross-class my abilities can use those abilities when synced down but I can't use my own abilities because they're higher level spells, like Stoneskin. I think cross-classing should keep in mind when the abilities are available and provide access accordingly.