Healing bots in raids

[Sebazy]

Seconded on the difficulty of kicking in raids. Drops need to be rolled on and it's entirely possible to clear the trash and get to the next boss before the previous loot rolls have timed out.

Whilst not a bot, I saw a CNJ trolling in Rabanastre a week or so back, as mentioned, they didn't roll on stuff, rushed to pull the next pack/boss and then went afk whilst occasionally baiting people in chat. By the time the raid irritated enough to stop pulling and wait to be able to kick them, they simply dropped the raid before the vote could go through. Ironically they then managed to get back in on Argath only to start spouting more nonsense :/

Back on topic, I totally wouldn't be surprised to see a bot capable of running 24 mans. There's plenty out there that are doing far more complex stuff already sadly.

[Transient_Shadow]

Have you tried putting them on obey?

[hamond]

Well all these points to serious problems with design of the game, the system, the governing body.
All these instances where healers dont even need to heal. All these instances where you cant get the loot you need without throwing in months of work. All these functions that are just a time waster. All these instances you cant even get a party for. A policy that allows unacceptable behaviour and promotes the undesirable.

You need to make the devs do something about it.

Oh, have you guys tried the player search in the social menus. If you pull it up you will see a long long list of bots.

[Risvertasashi]

You need to make the devs do something about it.

Bit of a necro? But anyways, it's a topic that's come up here fairly often. It basically comes down to... if you do stuff minimum ilvl sync healing is needed, but realistically we all outgear stuff so badly healing is trivialized. Unfortunate, but... Such is the nature of low tier content.

[DrWho2010]

i will admit i've been guilty of sleepy healing. dozing off and just spamming stone instead of cures =p

[Ametrine]

SCH fairies are tuned so high that SCHs can play green DPS in low level dungeons. You can basically pretend you're an arcanist again and it make no difference.

In fact, players like that are why the fairies got slammed with the nerf bat in 4.0.

The problem is especially lazy ones will try this in higher level content, to the pain and suffering of the party.

[Hestzhyen]

SCH fairies are tuned so high that SCHs can play green DPS in low level dungeons. You can basically pretend you're an arcanist again and it make no difference.

In fact, players like that are why the fairies got slammed with the nerf bat in 4.0.

Healing in general is tuned really high in the lower level dungeons. I honestly prefer to go SCH when I do Mentor Roulette since I usually end up healing Dungeons or Guildhests. If I get a lowbie duty you better believe I'll let Eos do all the healing so I can DPS and get us out of there that much faster.

I think the super high potency of healing at low levels trains healers to be "bot-like"- hardly any attention is required, just cast your heals now and then and everything will (probably) be k. Obviously things change as levels go up but when all the game requires of you is to spam a button or two to do your job in most scenarios, some people will naturally take the easy way out.