Overhealing Question

[EaMett]

Yeah you aren't going to build much of a case here, since there's no way of knowing if it was parsed or just from looking at casts and whatnot. I 'm more surprised he even just cared at all in a lower level dungeon. Not like healers ever dps anyways lol.

[bgd624624]

Yeah you aren't going to build much of a case here, since there's no way of knowing if it was parsed or just from looking at casts and whatnot. I 'm more surprised he even just cared at all in a lower level dungeon. Not like healers ever dps anyways lol.

I should have paid more attention, but I'm new to MCH and wanted to keep my rotation optimal. I did queue the dungeon again later and the healer there literally did no DPS at all which was weird. I've brought all healing classes to 70 and while I won't claim I'm that good, I'd lose my mind not DPSs in between heals. That being said, I'm a bit ashamed to admit I don't really know what a tank sees from his/her side of the coin. I.e. if a healer is overhealing how impactful that really is on enmity or how apparent it is that they're spam healing you to death. I guess I need to level a tank!

[Satarn]

That being said, I'm a bit ashamed to admit I don't really know what a tank sees from his/her side of the coin. I.e. if a healer is overhealing how impactful that really is on enmity or how apparent it is that they're spam healing you to death. I guess I need to level a tank!

I'd like to clarify something. It is a misconception that overhealing generates any extra enmity compared to normal healing - obviously the more healing you do, the more threat you will get, but it's the same modifier whether those heals refill bars or just go into ether. The issue really is wasted gcds, basically there's completely no reason to just spam heal so you might as well dps. Also in case of big pulls, the longer the fight takes, the more likely it is you run out of mp and tank runs out of cds, so sometimes offense is best defense. It's true that it doesn't really matter in low level dungeons, but there's also nothing wrong with giving advice to new healers, as long as you're not being an ass about it. Saying something like "hey you don't really need to spam heal me so much, feel free to help with dps a little" is just trying to help the newbies for the future.
It is also incredibly easy to tell if the healer is overhealing in a dungeon. Tank's hp never dropping low enough, seeing healing numbers next to the tank, cast bars in party list and even just looking at animations on the healer will all tell you that, no need for parsing.

All that said, leveling at least one job in each role and familiarizing yourself with kits of other jobs, are very important steps to becoming better at cooperating with your party and making the most of your own skills.