Dear Paladins

[Cabalabob]

Dear healers,

There’s already 1000 threads on this you don’t need to post new ones, please stop.

[Makarrov]

What’s more likely happening is the paladins are being left at low hp, see the healer casting dps spells and decide to take care of it themselves since the healer can’t be bothered.

[Enkidoh]

What’s more likely happening is the paladins are being left at low hp, see the healer casting dps spells and decide to take care of it themselves since the healer can’t be bothered.

^This. Depends on the situation of course but if my health is dropping below 50% consistantly and the healer is ignoring me to spam DPS spells, I won't hesitate to pop Clemency once or twice as a last resort (especially if the enemy is hitting pretty hard). I won't sit there spamming Clemency otherwise though, as healers are there for a reason and having mained WHM I know how annoying it can be for a healer to have the tank making them redundant. So I can see both sides of the arguement here.

My priority though is to defend the party, and if that means having to take healing into my own hands if absolutely necessary then so be it. But I won't do it otherwise if the healer is on the job and keeping me alive, as that's just wasted MP, wasted time and making healers look unneeded.

Another reason for popping Clemency at nearly full health is to use Divine Veil, as it only activates if you've had a healing spell cast on you (in earlier times where my HP was near full in that situation I would just pop Cure instead as the amount healed would be insignificant and not impact the healer), but I would be still reluctant to do so.

[Misutoraru]

What’s more likely happening is the paladins are being left at low hp, see the healer casting dps spells and decide to take care of it themselves since the healer can’t be bothered.

last time i trust a SCH i end up sleeping on the floor

and last time i run orbonne monastery, I end up solo healing

of cause those are extreme cases, but can't blame me for being cautious

especially since ShB more and more healer become "must DPS at all cost" and forget their first job