Why healers shouldn't DPS

[Taika]

Meh, I queue as a healer, that's what I'll be doing. Why is this the only game that has this shitty mind set?

I assume you're not being serious, but in case anyone might think along these lines and aren't yet experienced with this game, it's because not all games are the same and it's not about "mind sets" but about how the jobs and fights are designed. In short, when you play this game, you should play this game.

[KageTokage]

That picture made me remember the revolutionary AI improvements present in the last HW MSQ duty, where the AI actually avoids a heavily telegraphed AoE.

I wonder if they'll keep doing that in the Stormblood MSQ.

[Aramina]

That picture made me remember the revolutionary AI improvements present in the last HW MSQ duty, where the AI actually avoids a heavily telegraphed AoE.

I wonder if they'll keep doing that in the Stormblood MSQ.

I hope so. That is something that has always annoyed me... especially in duties where if a certain PC dies then the duty fails. STOP STANDING IN GARBAGE AND YOU WON'T DIE! grr. lol.

[Vaer]

That picture made me remember the revolutionary AI improvements present in the last HW MSQ duty, where the AI actually avoids a heavily telegraphed AoE.

They dodge better than some of the players I've seen.

[Karathix]

man a vaguely entertaining Skyrior post. impressive.

[Ama_Hamada]

Oh god, after that one post he made here

There's so many things wrong here that I don't know where to begin... Please just cease writing because you clearly do not know how to play WHM properly.



Did you just contradict yourself?



Clearly shows you've never done a big pull properly because out of the three healers WHM handles this the best with instant and short CD asylum, in-cleric Benediction, potent Divine Seal regen, and Holy stunning. Ironically ASTs are the ones with the most problem with big pulls because Gravity doesn't stun and Time Dilation and Collective Unconscious (for the potent regen) are on a longer cooldown.



You do realize you should use Assize and Asylum on CD...? (Not so for raids if you need to save them for specific mechanics) And since when is using Regen a "jerk" behavior on trash pulls?



Have you ever been in one such party before...????



Try doing that in A12S... Hell just try it in A9S with an average party and see if you can clear if your cohealer will not put in extra work to cover your shortfall.



Even in Baelsar's Wall, which is NOT AT ALL savage content you should be using regens on the DPS for the prey markers or divine seal Medica II. You do not use Cure/Cure II.

The rest of your post is rubbish.

If raid content is designed around requiring healer DPS (as in early Gordias prog), and even for non-savage content you can NOT clear if you only cast Cure I and Cure II then clearly it is not intended for WHMs to spam Cure I and Cure II.

If you want to comment further at least finish the HW storyline.

I thought I give this thread a read (I just passed over it cuz Skyrior thread.) After reading this post though I learned he knew healers well so I thought I see what this thread was about. Very good laugh for anyone that is annoyed with that one person ;p

The sad thing is, this is basically a copy of an actual post that seemed to be seriously written (and similar arguments from the same poster) - and the original one even received likes. >.>

lul so that is what it was from, funny, this was a good one ;p

I have tried to read that post through three TIMES and I have no idea what the point of it is or what I am supposed to conclude from it

Really? it is even quoted in that post:

The rest of your response... is little more than a rant. You continue to presume healers must constantly heal yet oddly contradict yourself by acknowledging most 8-man content doesn't need two healers.
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You can bury your head in the sand all you fancy but if the tank and DPS have 300+ abilities cast and you only have 50. Well, who's carrying whom?

[MisterLucie]

I never thought I would see the day I'd like a Skyrior thread.

[Lollie]

You forgot to add healers who dps are lazy because they dont have time to run their laps and do their jumping jacks to maintain their physique.

[Kaurie]

Healers should ONLY dps when solo. So the solution is simple. Let your party wipe, so that you can ham on DPS.