I haven't vented in a while, but my god... this past week I have run the absolute gambit of terrible healers! I think I got the bottom of the barrel, so if I haven't seen you in DF in a week, that means you aren't one of the worst healers in the world, congrats!
Take one! My very first time in Fractal Continuum. I'm i145 WAR, healer is Astrologian. I don't know what this healer was doing, but it wasn't healing. Because I- and my party -died six times to trash mobs alone. And not big pulls! Like 2 or 3 mobs. And despite running through all of my defensive cooldowns, full timing Inner Beast, and popping pretty much all of my self-heals, still managed to die against 2 mobs. Healer says not a word. He dc'd at the very last boss, which took us a good hour to get to. We immediately vote kicked, only for him to re-queue to plague us through 3 wipes to the last boss.
Take two! Same day! Just unlocked Expert Roulette woo! My BLM friend and I, who had been going through all this together had had a pretty awesome Neverreap run, and we were overjoyed to not have Continuum for our Roulette. Until... another healer who could not keep me up. First pull of Neverreap, I (still at i145) go for the first two Toco Toco and the Wamoura and leave the Blue Buzzards on the opposite side alone. AKA I don't pull the whole island. Healer decides that isn't good enough, so he goes ahead and pulls the other two mobs. I grab hate and am struggling to stay up despite popping every single one of my cooldowns. I'm talking like scraping by in the 1-2k HP range for most of that fight.
We continue on to the tornado segment. I pull the first two mobs and duck into the tornado-free safespot by the treasure chest. Lo and behold, healer goes and pulls the three mobs at the top and runs them back to me. At this point, I have very few cooldowns and try to make due with Inner Beast spam and a one off Equilibrium. Obviously, I lasted about 15s before I died because whatever the healer was doing, was not keeping me up through that. So I, as politely as I can, say "Please do not pull. I do not have a high enough Item Level for big pulls. Please leave the pulling to me."
"Are you new to tanking?"
...................................................................................oh no, bitch.
So I had to learn this asshole on how a good tank knows how, where, and what mobs they can feasibly pull and deal with at their current gear and skill level. How it's not a healer's job to pull, nor is it a healers job to let the tank die to any amount of mobs that they themselves deem "not enough." The only response I got was "Use Cooldowns." Furious. The Rage of Sounsyy was peaked. But I held my tongue and just simmered the rest of the dungeon. That healer didn't pull any more extra mobs. Amazingly, we didn't die too many more times until later. Healer let me die to the Hakupaq at the end though. Again, three mobs with full cooldown rotations and still died.
But sweet justice was served by the last boss and that healer died twice. Once by falling off the edge and another time by just eating a charge to the face. So I solo-healed myself through the last fight and kept myself up long enough for the DD to finish off the boss. I got a commendation and an apology from the other DD. Healer left without a word and before loot had even dropped. Sweet satisfaction.
We had a few good healers after that. Of those good healers, none of them let my HP drop to critical and when asked, none of them said I was difficult to heal. Most of them were kinda awestruck by Raw Intuition giving them full crits. So, that definitely made me feel a whole lot less self-conscious. Suck it dumb healer.
Ohhhhh best instance was the next day in the Continuum though! We had an astrologian only cure using the regen bubble! Now I know- and I've seen my 60 AST friend do it -that if you super buff that bubble with some other things and that one circle you put on the ground, the ticks can give an impressive amount of HP recovery, however, this healer was just throwing up bubble when I was eating hits from several very hard hitting mobs... like that chimera. And they wouldn't throw up this bubble at the start or anything, no, they would wait until I had like 2-3k HP left, had been struggling for a while and pretty much went into fuck-it-mode, ran over to me and would throw up a bubble like that was gonna keep me from dying. Their bubble only ticked for about 1400 HP total every 2.5s. I was easily taking that much from every mob attack every second, from several mobs. The agony was real.
Well, that's been my week in DF!
Take one! My very first time in Fractal Continuum. I'm i145 WAR, healer is Astrologian. I don't know what this healer was doing, but it wasn't healing. Because I- and my party -died six times to trash mobs alone. And not big pulls! Like 2 or 3 mobs. And despite running through all of my defensive cooldowns, full timing Inner Beast, and popping pretty much all of my self-heals, still managed to die against 2 mobs. Healer says not a word. He dc'd at the very last boss, which took us a good hour to get to. We immediately vote kicked, only for him to re-queue to plague us through 3 wipes to the last boss.
Take two! Same day! Just unlocked Expert Roulette woo! My BLM friend and I, who had been going through all this together had had a pretty awesome Neverreap run, and we were overjoyed to not have Continuum for our Roulette. Until... another healer who could not keep me up. First pull of Neverreap, I (still at i145) go for the first two Toco Toco and the Wamoura and leave the Blue Buzzards on the opposite side alone. AKA I don't pull the whole island. Healer decides that isn't good enough, so he goes ahead and pulls the other two mobs. I grab hate and am struggling to stay up despite popping every single one of my cooldowns. I'm talking like scraping by in the 1-2k HP range for most of that fight.
We continue on to the tornado segment. I pull the first two mobs and duck into the tornado-free safespot by the treasure chest. Lo and behold, healer goes and pulls the three mobs at the top and runs them back to me. At this point, I have very few cooldowns and try to make due with Inner Beast spam and a one off Equilibrium. Obviously, I lasted about 15s before I died because whatever the healer was doing, was not keeping me up through that. So I, as politely as I can, say "Please do not pull. I do not have a high enough Item Level for big pulls. Please leave the pulling to me."
"Are you new to tanking?"
...................................................................................oh no, bitch.
So I had to learn this asshole on how a good tank knows how, where, and what mobs they can feasibly pull and deal with at their current gear and skill level. How it's not a healer's job to pull, nor is it a healers job to let the tank die to any amount of mobs that they themselves deem "not enough." The only response I got was "Use Cooldowns." Furious. The Rage of Sounsyy was peaked. But I held my tongue and just simmered the rest of the dungeon. That healer didn't pull any more extra mobs. Amazingly, we didn't die too many more times until later. Healer let me die to the Hakupaq at the end though. Again, three mobs with full cooldown rotations and still died.
But sweet justice was served by the last boss and that healer died twice. Once by falling off the edge and another time by just eating a charge to the face. So I solo-healed myself through the last fight and kept myself up long enough for the DD to finish off the boss. I got a commendation and an apology from the other DD. Healer left without a word and before loot had even dropped. Sweet satisfaction.
We had a few good healers after that. Of those good healers, none of them let my HP drop to critical and when asked, none of them said I was difficult to heal. Most of them were kinda awestruck by Raw Intuition giving them full crits. So, that definitely made me feel a whole lot less self-conscious. Suck it dumb healer.
Ohhhhh best instance was the next day in the Continuum though! We had an astrologian only cure using the regen bubble! Now I know- and I've seen my 60 AST friend do it -that if you super buff that bubble with some other things and that one circle you put on the ground, the ticks can give an impressive amount of HP recovery, however, this healer was just throwing up bubble when I was eating hits from several very hard hitting mobs... like that chimera. And they wouldn't throw up this bubble at the start or anything, no, they would wait until I had like 2-3k HP left, had been struggling for a while and pretty much went into fuck-it-mode, ran over to me and would throw up a bubble like that was gonna keep me from dying. Their bubble only ticked for about 1400 HP total every 2.5s. I was easily taking that much from every mob attack every second, from several mobs. The agony was real.
Well, that's been my week in DF!
