Quote Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne View Post
One of the most common stories of DFs that I've heard (even seen some myself!) of since EW dropped are the "lol WAR solo heal", "lol bad healer in general", and "DRK is bad". Today I'll have to add one more to the list for I just got out of duty and witnessed it again: "RDM playing off-healer".

50-80 Roulette: Anamnesis Anyder. Cool, something from ShB. I feel nostalgic already ;_;
Queued in with my friend (WHM) as a WAR. We got paired with two sprouts: SAM and RDM, the latter was a first timer.

SAM had a fatal attraction to bad stuffs, died a couple of times in each boss encounters. They weren't even new with all those played jobs and 3 or 4 lv90 jobs so who knows what's their deal... RDM being new was actually doing marginally better than the SAM. Like the SAM however they ate few bad stuffs but such is to be expected from first timer.

At 2nd boss in this dungeon is usually when I expect first timer to start dropping like flies or at least stumbling here & there; which they did. SAM included, for whatever reason. They never respect the res invuln timer and always res at the worst timing ever. Res invuln didn't even last longer than 2s as they press that Meikyou Shisui juuuust right before the next raidwide happens. Down they go, again.

Did I mentioned about RDM playing an off-healer? This is when the RDM started to do just that. Vercuring themselves and everybody else, thinking that they're helping my friend. As well overwriting my friend's hardcasted Thin Air+Raise. Perhaps out of safety or concern for my healer friend but... this infuriates them.
[2] = WHM
[3] = SAM
[4] = RDM

Okay so they've asked to not overwrite their raise... but then this happens again in 3rd boss when the SAM died again:


They've overwritten their raise again.
While I could understand their reason and hilarity behind the frustration, my friend's response wasn't ideal & could get themselves into trouble. I had to break away and told them to cool off a bit; continue another time.
Gotta say, of all the things to get annoyed at while playing healer, I can't say that having a RDM or SMN toss out some quick raises has ever gotten under my skin. Shooot, they wanna save me the trouble? Have at it!

The Vercuring may be a bit more questionable though depending how how the party's HP/MP were looking and if your friend had it under control. Kinda like the Clemency thing. I think in most situations they'd probably be better off DPSing still. The same could probably be said about the raising as well, but it's just a loss of one GCD and if it lets a healer focus on something else, cool :3

But in that specific party, could it be that the two DPS were friends perhaps? Maybe the RDM was just trying to help out his bud who was eating everything in sight.