Letters from the party menber live

[bounddreamer]

I mean, in all seriousness it seems like the DRK should time Blood Price better. Holy is pretty predictable in that it will likely begin occurring the moment the tank stops the pull and it's pretty serious AOE damage. Asking the WHM delay Holy and lose quite a bit of DPS on the trash rather than waiting 8 seconds or whatever until the stun is on DR seems like an all around bad strategy.

Right when the tank stops the pull is right when the most possible mobs are hitting them, therefore when they'll get the most possible benefit from Blood Price. Asking the DRK to delay blood price and have less effective mp regeneration isn't a great strategy either. There's still other dps the WHM can do, and holy spam drains whm mp.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Dear co-healer,

Server tick tells me I did it first. It's not that big of a deal. If we both need Swiftcast in the first minute of a fight that's really not our fault anyhow.

It's one thing when it's a "we both cast at the near-same time and override each other". It's quite another when the entire party is already buffed up before the other healer even begins casting - that isn't server discrepancy issues, that's just being irritating. And true, while we shouldn't need a Swiftcast right at the beginning of the fight.. it's still a waste, all the same. A waste that is highly unneeded.

Edit due to recent DS party:

Dear co-healer,

If you're going to spend most of the fight in CS and not help me heal at all, at least try to put out some decent dps - rather than stand there like a deer in headlights for a full minute between damage spells.

[Kaethra]

Dear Everyone:

Carry Echo Drops. Use them on your healer if they get silenced. Target them first then use them.
This works especially well in PotD when a silence/paci trap goes off, it takes off the silence and they can cure the silence/paci off everyone else.

Also keep a stack of HQ Max Potions (can get them in floors 51+ in PotD, I have 300 of them myself). Its 2400 healing and really helps those healers keep you topped off if something crazy happens. Pop them like they're candy. Works well on healers too for a bit of oomph on themselves. Doesn't take a GCD and its literally free for the most part.

[Nixxe]

Right when the tank stops the pull is right when the most possible mobs are hitting them, therefore when they'll get the most possible benefit from Blood Price. Asking the DRK to delay blood price and have less effective mp regeneration isn't a great strategy either. There's still other dps the WHM can do, and holy spam drains whm mp.

I'm like 99% sure you're asking for a significant net loss to the group's DPS just to avoid the DRK having to put even one iota of thought into how they use their abilities.

Dear Healers,
Please don't chime when to "LB" to DPS during a boss fight. It's super annoying and you lose my commendation every time.

You do realize LB gets wasted half the time because neither DPS uses it, right?

[Atlaworks]

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Dear WHM,

You are a healer, not a DPS. Quit whining about your DPS. Let the tank do the tanking, it's their job. Yours is not to sit in Cleric Stance and spam holy so you can DPS with a faster queue. No, I don't really care how you try to rationalize it. If you wanna stance dance and DPS that's rad but when you become so preoccupied with it that you're trying to tell the tank how to tank and saying the DPS never does their job, you're not getting a commend from me, and possibly getting a kick if you get too antsy. You're literally telling everyone how to do their job so you can proceed to not do yours.

[Faliandra]

Dear WHM,

You are a healer, not a DPS. Quit whining about your DPS. Let the tank do the tanking, it's their job. Yours is not to sit in Cleric Stance and spam holy so you can DPS with a faster queue. No, I don't really care how you try to rationalize it. If you wanna stance dance and DPS that's rad but when you become so preoccupied with it that you're trying to tell the tank how to tank and saying the DPS never does their job, you're not getting a commend from me, and possibly getting a kick if you get too antsy. You're literally telling everyone how to do their job so you can proceed to not do yours.

Dear tank,
are you implying my job is to idle around doing nothing while the 2dps are doing 500ish dps while I'd do 3-4 times as much as a WHM? (<-- not an exaggeration,happened far,far more than once)
Every good DRK ive met so far could handle their MP despite WHM Holy Spam very well and even told me to "not worry about their mp".
DPS is key, no matter what you say and as long as everyone is alive, im legitimately doing my job.

A good WHM is a LEGIT 3rd decent dps WHILE keeping everyone up and alive. Sacrificing that potential for your Blood Price is insane.

PS: you're doing me a favor by kicking me in that case, because THAT party who will be doing that certainly is going to be far from good or fast.

[Rocond]

Dear DPS. Pulling the mobs is MY job. If you are pulling I'm going to assume you can deal with it without me.

Dear Tank, we are not as impressed with your presence as you think we are. Stop being a baby and tank things even when it doesn't fall under the criteria you need to fulfill your god complex.

[MistyMew]

Dear Tank, we are not as impressed with your presence as you think we are. Stop being a baby and tank things even when it doesn't fall under the criteria you need to fulfill your god complex.

you got my like

[Azzie]

Dear dps and/or healer;

If you think we can pull more than I'm currently tanking (though I tend do do big pulls anyway) do feel free to grab a pack for me, but please give me a heads up so I can pull those mobs off you as smooth as possible.

Sincerely, your friendly neighbourhood DRK.

p.s. Dear other DRKs, switching Darkside on and off is not stance dancing.

[Nixxe]

Dear WHM,

You are a healer, not a DPS. Quit whining about your DPS. Let the tank do the tanking, it's their job. Yours is not to sit in Cleric Stance and spam holy so you can DPS with a faster queue. No, I don't really care how you try to rationalize it. If you wanna stance dance and DPS that's rad but when you become so preoccupied with it that you're trying to tell the tank how to tank and saying the DPS never does their job, you're not getting a commend from me, and possibly getting a kick if you get too antsy. You're literally telling everyone how to do their job so you can proceed to not do yours.

You guys are trying really hard to make this personal and are reading into this what you want to see. I'm certainly not sitting in Cleric Stance 100% of the time, but I can heal most pulls in Sohm Al (Hard) and Baelsar's Wall with a single Regen cast right as the tank stops moving and maybe a Tetra at some point during the pull, with out-of-combat regen taking care of the rest. This gives me a lot of time to DPS, as there isn't really anything else to do, and I can do some pretty serious DPS, often being higher than both of the other DPS overall. This speeds up runs quite a bit, which helps all of us. I like healing, but unless the entire party is committed to being terrible, there generally isn't any to do in a lot of content, so my priority switches to spending as little time on my 120th run of Sohm Al as possible. This is perfectly reasonable on my part.