Healers please

[Liam_Harper]

okay, so... how can you be so sure that your co healer has any kind of "plan" aside from spamming dps? how much time do you suggest giving until you know ifd they are a green dps or actually going to heal? members start dying? or you need to use LB3 to rez everyone? I usually leave my psychic shoes at home when I go into raids so if you have an easy way to figure out if the other healer has a plan, or even intends to heal, that would be wonderful. please educate us on this ability

When the raidwide is coming up soon and no one is healed. It's not too complicated.

-Raidwide hits, next potentially damaging mechanic is 30 sec away.
-Co heal does literally nothing for the next 25 sec. Shrug and Plenary lily or oGCD or even use a few GCDs if you have to.
-Raid is safe. Mechanic hits.

Even if you don't have the whole fight mapped perfectly, bosses so far often give an indication when it's mechanic time. If the next mechanic is 10 sec away, same applies for waiting 5 seconds. I won't let the party sit at a range that I couldn't heal within 1-2 GCD's if I was unsure if the next mech was soon, but I'm fine letting them sit at half for a while if I have resources to react to a boss castbar.

It's extremely rare I've come across a co-heal who simply doesn't heal. I could count the number of times on one hand. Some are a bit GCD heal allergic and I have to adjust, but nearly all dps focused healers will make use of oGCD's, which I can use to my advantage to lighten my own load and space out my own resources.

Also as I mentioned, there are numerous signs of whether your co-healer is pulling their weight. All HoT's have buff icons that you can look for. All ground heals are visible, Soil, Star, Asylum. Assize happens every 45 sec. It's one reason why playing multiple healers can help you improve on your main, because you gain an understanding of how they function mechanically, their strengths and weaknesses, how many oGCD's they have and how often they're available and what they're capable of.

If I saw them using any aoe heal not overhealing btw if we're all at 1hp.

I assume you're talking EX1. They're probably using HoT's for that first reduction to 1hp. You have roughly a full 30 sec to heal before the stack, which is HoT heaven.

Place Asylum in the top NW corner. Easy healing. Glare away for 25 sec. If your party is somehow still not full here, it's fine since you can assign Lilybell and your upcoming Rapture to the stack.
You now have your first lily. Temp, Plenary, Lily is more than enough for the stack and to sweeten it you get a natural Assize here.
Lilybell handles Phobos. If you used it for the stack, throw Temp/Plenary/lilies at it.

No GCD heals needed. Co healer could be asleep.