Why are NPC parties so bad?

[SnowVix]

The main problem is, Aphinaud is the worst healer in gaming history! He doesn't heal me at all until I have less than 20% health. And the tank isn't much better.

Intended. If you didn't die, you were healed properly.

I've been trying to do the Grand Cosmos dungeon for the MSQ with NPCs, and everything went somewhat ok until the last boss, the flame-something dude. Alphinaud keeps getting one-shotted, and Tancred (tank) can't control the boss at all. It's completely un-doable with NPCs.

The boss moves for several of his mechanics regardless of the tank, and the Alphinaud one-shots are probably because you took the furniture he was heading to for Mortal Flame (or ran him over with the boss charges).

[1313]

Intended. If you didn't die, you were healed properly.



The boss moves for several of his mechanics regardless of the tank, and the Alphinaud one-shots are probably because you took the furniture he was heading to for Mortal Flame (or ran him over with the boss charges).

OR OP took the closest piece of thing to burn with his blue flame, and in typical Alphinaud fashion, he did something equally dumb to forming the crystal braves witha bunch of heretics, and tried to use a burnt piece of furniture to do mechanics and caused a wipe because he's dead weight.