Heal more instead of dpsing

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

“Heal more”—makes me want to heal less, and often I do.
Vercure/Clemency—makes me want to heal less, and often I do.
If you call someone out on their healing, and least know their class enough to know that they truly aren’t healing.

Personally I tend to react positively if whoever pleading for more healing or planned healing would mention the spell/abilities name, like: "Can you use [Essential Dignity] for <insert part>" ; "Can you save [Benediction] for <insert part>" ; "Can you take out seraph at <insert part>".
Simply asking for more healing, especially if I'm actually already doing the most fundamental healing requirement would just deter me from healing.

[Gmot]

As a healer main, I normally agree. However, I was running Matoya's as a DNC, I kid you not, she did not heal anyone. I stayed on half health and healed myself for a majority of the boss fights (which also led me to die once due to having to get a vuln stack since she refused to move for something and I had to change directions.) She would let the tank ht maybe 10k health on pulls before she'd stop casting DPS spells. Sometimes, honestly, stop DPSing and heal more.

~ Sincerely, a healer since 2016.

[Jukebox12]

As a healer main, I normally agree. However, I was running Matoya's as a DNC, I kid you not, she did not heal anyone. I stayed on half health and healed myself for a majority of the boss fights (which also led me to die once due to having to get a vuln stack since she refused to move for something and I had to change directions.) She would let the tank ht maybe 10k health on pulls before she'd stop casting DPS spells. Sometimes, honestly, stop DPSing and heal more.

~ Sincerely, a healer since 2016.

did you or anyone die?

[Kabooa]

As a healer main, I normally agree. However, I was running Matoya's as a DNC, I kid you not, she did not heal anyone. I stayed on half health and healed myself for a majority of the boss fights (which also led me to die once due to having to get a vuln stack since she refused to move for something and I had to change directions.) She would let the tank ht maybe 10k health on pulls before she'd stop casting DPS spells. Sometimes, honestly, stop DPSing and heal more.

~ Sincerely, a healer since 2016.

Matoya is a bad example, given that the damage going out is so low, and it serves as the primary example of the problem. Warriors can solo heal the entire thing without breaking a sweat, and while this is doable in other dungeons, its particularly effortless in Matoyas.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

As a healer main, I normally agree. However, I was running Matoya's as a DNC, I kid you not, she did not heal anyone. I stayed on half health and healed myself for a majority of the boss fights (which also led me to die once due to having to get a vuln stack since she refused to move for something and I had to change directions.) She would let the tank ht maybe 10k health on pulls before she'd stop casting DPS spells. Sometimes, honestly, stop DPSing and heal more.

~ Sincerely, a healer since 2016.

Well it’s not like the OP is anything close to this healer you were matched with. I do have to admit that Matoya’s Relict incoming damage is very pushover—even moreso than any previously released lv80 dungeon in my opinion. It’s quite hard to resist the temptation to -not- squeeze in every bit DPS spells possible before turning my attention to tank’s health, especially when the tank is also doing their job wonderfully. Besides the porxie suction phase & 1st day of 5.4, I don’t think I have ever seen any deaths in said dungeon.

[Dogempire]

Eh, honestly with these DF groups the only thing you can really do is make sure you're standing in bubbles or next to the healer, or at least near them if you want to be healed. If you miss the initial star, don't stand in bubbles, don't stand in range of medica or fairy regen, then any healing after that is pretty much the healer being nice instead of letting you die because you're being a nuisance standing too far away refusing to be healed.

That being said, I don't 100% trust DF healers so I tend to pop my own mitigation/heals when it looks like I'm going to die to raidwides or unavoidable damage, difference being that 95 times out of 100 it would have been fine regardless of if I popped anything or not, but I still prefer to play it safe out of habit

[Styrmwyda]

My opinion, DPS, but don't let your party go below, lets say, 20% health. Basically, don't let them die.

[technole]

Many in the game who really are not good generally have "life bar anxiety". So they come up with weird stuff like always being at 70% or even 90% HP+ non-sense when the mechanics don't dictate it. These include those weird clemency tanks who won't use holy circle on mobs. Cause that's the best mitigation in the game, when something dies faster.

It's worse when the anxiety is a healer because they keep you topped up so much that they overheal like mad, and don't trust things like Asylum when that's well over a 900+ potency heal and still pop a medica 2 for some unknown reason. Next thing they realize they are out of MP for some reason, cause of overheal.