Rescue is Griefing

[HyoMinPark]

I mean it's not the most overpowered ability in a healer's kit but it is definitely god modeing. Every two minutes if you have a problematic teammate you get to play the game for them to a degree. No other class has the ability to displace another player, to make another player participate or properly perform a mechanic.

I still disagree. Rescue isn’t a god mode skill. It’s there to provide assistance if it’s needed. There’s no encounter where you’d even be using it on cooldown, and outside of specific coordinates incidents (e.g., Hello World Rescue in O12S), when and where it’s used is completely random.

If I have a problematic teammate, I just let them hit the floor and hope they are laying there thinking about what they’ve done. If they continue to be problematic, then I simply stop wasting my mana on raising them. (I only make an exception for people who are new and don’t know the mechanics.) That’s more “god mode” than Rescue, in my opinion.

But even then, there's too much abuse with it.

Then report the abuse; but it’s usage is never a clear cut case of abuse (in GM terms) unless blatantly stated by the healer Rescuing. How many uses are actually abuse and how many are simply construed that way due to negative bias?

Mistiming a Rescue isn’t abuse. Misjudging where the person being Rescued to isn’t abuse. It happens the same way mistiming a heal does. It’s an honest mistake, but it seems like a lot of people want to call a healer mistiming their skill “abusing” or “griefing” someone.

It's also a heavy case of "healer knows best" where a lot of times egomaniacal healers use it thinking they're helping and they end up damaging the party instead(i.e. that one healer that decided I wasn't moving quickly enough to the rest of the party with my stack marker and ended up sling shotting me away from them instead).

Rescue pulls you to the healer. How did it slingshot you away from them? I’m assuming the healer was already with the party, so it makes no sense for you to ping pong away from them if they use the skill. That said, I can understand trying to Rescue someone with a stack marker because, far too often and far more often than I see people Rescuing, people run away with the stack and end up killing themselves and anyone foolish enough to try to follow.

This seems to be a misjudgment on the healer’s part, which, again, is not an abuse of the skill. Healers aren’t perfect beings who never make a mistake. Something else to also keep in mind is that you might not have appeared to be moving on their screen. There is a delay between when you start moving and when other players actually see you moving.

In short, I don’t think this situation is as nefarious as you’re making it seem.

I regularly hear about healers, new or old using it to drag tanks through dungeons as if they were dogs on leashes. For all the good it does, it seems to be used poorly just as many times.

I have heard this, but I’ve done many dungeon runs and never actually seen it. That said, you are still blaming the tool because of the player using it.