Toxic healers

[Bsrking5]

The issue I see is healer downtime seriously needs to be addressed. Only a healer can misbehave in this manner and still fulfill their minimum requirement.

Not really, dps requirements for 90% of the game is so low one dps in 4 man can afk with no issues and 2 for 8 mans. Tanks can do this too, since dps requirements are so low.

[Gemina]

Honestly I don't have any downtime healing - the mechanics are there for healers to be active, it's a player issue not a game one.

Downtime being not time spent healing.

I could agree that it is a player issue at its core, but what is in a jerkface's nature to do is out of the control of the devs. What you do is create more dungeons like The Burn and Amaurot and keep the ilv sync reasonable so it isn't faceroll. You also make it so players can't be undergeared. I am not sure why this is rocket science for the dev team, but I'm just a player.

Not really, dps requirements for 90% of the game is so low one dps in 4 man can afk with no issues and 2 for 8 mans. Tanks can do this too, since dps requirements are so low.

Yes and no. First I was referring to just dungeons since that is what the OP was specifically referring to and not 8-man. Second I was referring to what is the "primary" duty for each role. I quote that because I don't want to get into a cobweb argument about all jobs needing to DPS. While a lot has changed over the years, what has not is some dungeons can have other roles pick up the slack for another such as a healer or DPS tanking, and others cannot. It is also becoming far more common for dungeon bosses to have stack marker mechanics making it near impossible to clear without a tank and healer performing their primary duty. It can still be cleared, but it will be pretty messy. As for DPS, all dungeons have a DPS requirement, even if it is low and the instance will eventually be cleared, you can always look at the HP of all the mobs and bosses as just one giant HP pool. While nearly all dungeons can allow for one DPS to AFK, it seriously adds time to the run even with the other three contributing what they can.

[SannaR]

As someone else said this should have been posted in the duty finder ranting thread.

Now to be sarcastic how else are they going to get their blood for their blood lily if it was a whm.

Also gotta love the whole this one time this one healer was mean so all healers must be this way. As a healer main I loathe wall to wall pulls, but that's mostly due to getting a lot of bads. When I say bads I mean anything from poorly geared people, no aoes, people not using their CDs, or a mix of all of those. Yet I've been conditioned to expect that so when it doesn't happen in a dungeon that it makes sense to do it if feels slow. Though I won't go and pull more because I'm not a jerk.

[Kes13a]

I main healers and I dont recall ever telling a tank how to do their job. They pull how they are comfy, and I am expected to adapt.

The person was a jerk, dont paint all healers with the same brush

[Haruka_R]

I would have left immediately.

[SenorPatty]

Blanket generalizations for maximum sensationalism.

Because why not >.> ?

[Katie_Kitty]

What is up with the phenomenon of healers being ego maniacs?

I tanked a lvl 71 dung last night where the healer was a male roe with no clothes on and a suggestive name who kept pulling ahead of me. The third pull I died followed by the dps and he finished the last 2 mobs remaining solo and then proceeded to say he was very skilled and pulled the boss while me and the 2 other dps were still running back.

The second boss, I had to afk (I think i was afk for 2 minutes) because I heard a loud bang downstairs, and when I got back they (I’m assuming the healer) had pulled the boss and kept everyone alive, and once the boss died he said “having a tank is useless LMFAO” and sprinted & pulled every single pack until the last boss where he miraculously waited.

At the end of the dungeon he did a squat & push-up emote and told me I need to learn how to pull faster with an air kiss emote

I just had to share that experience because it was probably the most toxic person I’ve ever encountered in this game.

100% a fake story.

First of all, the healer couldn't have "pulled every single pack until the last boss" because, in holminster switch (the lvl71 dungeon), the last few packs prior to the final boss are STAGGERED by the game and do not even appear until you kill the previous pack. Are you telling me that you took so long to pull that the healer went through that whole section of the dungeon where you kill one pack at a time before you got back? If so, then that's your fault, why should you expect the rest of the group to wait that long for you when they can do the rest just fine without you?

[gumas]

not sure fake or not. but if it true, sounds like the healer is actually a tank player who in the middle of leveling his healer class and just want to get it done fast so he can go back to his supreme tanking class.

either way, that's how mmorpg pug works, sometimes you draw the short straw, sometime you get good pug sometime you get someone like this. just report/blacklist him and done.

just another eventful day lol

[Dalmacus]

and sprinted & pulled every single pack until the last boss where he miraculously waited.

I call that a lie. Anyone who did lvl 71 dungeons and above knows that how hard the mobs hit with the level sync and all.
You all need to stop getting baited.

[jamjeeshoul77]

Thanks for all the replies everyone, next time this happens I’ll probably just leave. Also I wasn’t aware of the duty finder stories thread, I’ll remember that one!

^^^ last few posts, I didn’t mean he pulled every pack at once up to the last boss, he was pulling the single packs and Holy stunning them. He was indeed a skilled healer, but for some reason in a really big hurry lol