Someone told me today to stop using DPS spells like Stone

[JowyAtreides]

If healers don't get any new buttons to press, I've always liked the idea of giving healers a core mechanic wherein their main offensive GCD will have an increased potency (of up to 30 or 50%) which gets dropped if a healing spell is cast (similar to Monk with their GL stacks disappearing after Tornado Kick).

This will then give them a bit more of a kick, strategy, planning, choices (ie should you get someone healed at 40% or 30% in order to get that last spell in or something) and hopefully give people who make bad choices a bit of a kick up the rear to get better.

As for someone telling you what to do and what not to do in dungeons, the classic "you don't pay my sub" should suffice. Advice is cool, orders are not.

[Kolsykol]

I once had someone run off the edge on their own in Titan and then went '' FFS HEALERS '' xD...
Also, BLM in Eden's Gate: Resurrection who got really mad at me because I pulled him into safety when the boss was doing that instant kill AoE and he was just standing in the middle and kept casting F4 right as it was about to go off.
He got mad because he lost Enochian ( which was his fault regardless, I main MNK and BLM if that happens just Transpose or whatever... ) and yelled at me then shortly after he backed into the edge and died and started ranting at the healers.

Don't underestimate how desperate some people are to blame everyone else for their own faults.
It's like with people who are assholes, people rarely acknowledge if they're a bad person even people who commit pretty hideous crimes still think they're a good person and will find ways to victimize themselves.

[Maeka]

... Because they were fire-chained to me in that one dungeon where you have to run away from your linked party member to avoid death.

... He didn't help me break the fire-chain so we both died... and then when we respawned, he said, "Are you using DPS spells?" To which I said "Yes" and He replied "Well then don't. Don't use anything but heal."



I have always kept my party members up at 90% health or higher, used my DPS spells on adds and boss, and never struggled with my mana. I rarely have to revive anyone unless, like in that scenario, they ignored a boss mechanic.

I think I am a pretty good healer, as it is such a simple class and you can do no wrong if you've played MMOs for a long time. But hearing him blame me made me feel so defeated

Fire-Chain, you mean Charibert, the final Vault Boss?

Ironically that's one of the fights where it is very helpful for the healers to be doing DPS because that's definitely a boss you want to kill fast.

Obviously, he was clueless to the chain mechanic and the wipe was his fault so don't let that bother you.