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    Alisi's Avatar
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    Twintania
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    Arcanist Lv 80

    Healing bots in raids

    Has anyone noticed their fellow healers acting like bots in raids lately? Cause I have. Do people put actual bots in raids now? I know that's a thing in PVP but not in raids.

    It's just that... well, they don't react like healers or even with any common sense. I've seen the DPS ones that just DPS regardless of everything (like the whole party is dead but they're just hitting stone 3 the entire time) to the point where they don't move for obvious mechanics or they're these overhealing healers who pop every CD at the start of a fight (for no reason) and then just do Medica 2 and three cure 2's on the tank (rinse and repeat.) If they die, which they do a lot, it takes them nearly the full minute to accept the rev.

    Am I just getting the worst co-healers in the game lately or is this a new thing in raids? I never noticed it before. =/
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    basketofseals's Avatar
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    Verrine Mercer
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    Balmung
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    They're just people watching netflix probably
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    Cherry Chubz
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    Diabolos
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    White Mage Lv 80
    I know that I can't spam heal all the time, so usually I'm standing there waiting and watching to need healing. I think may have thought I was a bot when I forget to move around. xDDD
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    Cynfael's Avatar
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    Sacrilege Moonshadow
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    Hyperion
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chubz View Post
    I know that I can't spam heal all the time, so usually I'm standing there waiting and watching to need healing.
    At the risk of restarting the time-honored sub-forum debate, remember that you can be attacking while no one needs to be healed. A healer standing around waiting for heals to be necessary = bot, Netflix, or Facebook
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    Pyretta_Blaze's Avatar
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    Hazel Meade
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    Excalibur
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    Fisher Lv 51
    Back in the world of darkness days my group witnessed what was most likely a heal bot on a script. It would unsheath its weapon and slowly walk towards the F2 player, sheath the weapon then cast medica and do it all over again every few seconds. Another time we found one that if you typed in /say Cure it would cast CureII and then Medica II regardless of healing need and always targeted the same person.

    Most are probably just distracted/drunk/sleepy/bad or whatever but I do believe some are legit bots.
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    Dr Yeol
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    Fisher Lv 100
    it is not just healers. Many people just stand still and do nothing. I let them die and leave them dead until they come back and ask for a rise. If they do it again I'll leave them dead until someone from other alliance rise them.
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    Hyomin Park
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    Cactuar
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    Sage Lv 92
    I’ve noticed a lot of idle healers; wouldn’t necessarily call them bots as I would call them lazy though.
    Now the PLD I had in Rabanastre a couple weeks ago that only auto-attacked.... would be tempted to label him as a bot, but he was probably just hoping for a carry.
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    Purple Rain
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    Sophia
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    Arcanist Lv 32
    When I see these kinds of players, I call them out in chat "Hey X, are you here? You seem to be only casting Cure II and doing nothing else?" Makes other party members pay attention to their behaviour (in case you want to kick the person) and in best case, makes them step up a bit (if not botting, just lazy)...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pyretta_Blaze View Post
    Back in the world of darkness days my group witnessed what was most likely a heal bot on a script. It would unsheath its weapon and slowly walk towards the F2 player, sheath the weapon then cast medica and do it all over again every few seconds. Another time we found one that if you typed in /say Cure it would cast CureII and then Medica II regardless of healing need and always targeted the same person.
    This is exactly what I'm finding. I'm not trying to open a 'healers are lazy cause they're not DPSing' or anything like that. I mean actions that seem scripted. One popped all the CDs at the start of the fight, then cast medica2 plus 3 cure2's on the tank and only did that for the entire fight. The only change was when the CDs came off CD. The tank wasn't actually the main tank so he was at 100% most of the fight anyway. That's not lazy healing. That's 'I'm not at the screen' healing. Regardless of whatever else was going on in the fight. Others just cast Stone the entire time, regardless of the fight. The whole party is dead but the healer is just casting stone (ignoring requests for revs and all that.)

    Things of this nature. Lazy playing, perhaps, but laziness that makes it seem like there's no one guiding the character.
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    Kira Kagamine
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    Famfrit
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    Lancer Lv 52
    Well...in terms of healers, we just get lazy in raids I guess. Especially ones that never drop gear for us. I ran Void Ark 10 times in a row to get the robe(still have not gotten it) and I got nothing that I wanted/needed in those 10 times. I bet by the 3rd time I was half asleep....

    Also, most raids tend to be unsynced and healers can heal through the AOE's/mechanics a lot of the time.

    In general people just stand around also because raids can be boring if you do one too many times or are unsynced and it is very easy.
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