(07-03-2015, 05:02 PM)Sounsyy Wrote:(07-03-2015, 04:25 PM)Enla Wrote: after seeing Virella's post I'm starting to wonder if it might not be because they're taking STR gear to fill in gaps while leveling.
Guarantee you it has nothing to do with STR gear. But it does have everything to do with the amount of buffs your tanks are using. Plain and simple. Having 2.5k more HP is only 2.5k more HP that you have to heal back cuz STR tanks and VIT tanks are gonna take the same amount of damage. But a tank that properly rotates his/her cooldowns will never have an issue short of a legitimately inattentive healer. At least with STR your tanks can actually assist with self-healing, whereas that VIT tank it's 100% up to you to do all the work to heal.
Another possibility is slow DPS. Which isn't necessarily because of bad DPS but possibly because DPS are undergeared for whatever raid or are still figuring out the nuances of their new post-50 job. I can't fault them for that, but if DPS is low, you can bet your tank's ass the tank and the healer are going to notice. In these new dungeons, it's not just a matter of inconvenience, it's a matter of life and death, because if a healer starts running low on MP every pull just because it's taking so long to kill a mob, my god.
Which leads into my vent of the day. Bards that are using their new Wanderer's Minuet 100% of the time now. Stahp! It's hurting your dps. I, as a WAR, should not be top DPS in any 4-man party.
I really appreciate you explaining the nuances of the matter Sounsyy! I haven't leveled any of my tanking classes to an appropriate point where I can entirely judge if a tank is doing their rotation and cooldowns poorly beyond how much stress it puts on me as a healer. I won't pretend I'm not at fault for some of the instances that have happened, there's been a few dungeon runs where I should have honestly gone to bed rather than inflict myself on anyone and I do my best to own up to those facts. However it's legitimately been bothering me as to why this is occurring.
I can't say it's necessarily a problem of DPSing as a healer in every instance. For while I focus on healing 95% of the time, I might pop one Holy and a Cleric Stance Assize for the first two pulls to gauge the damage output and how much stress it will otherwise put on me, the moment I notice DPSing isn't going to be viable is the moment I stop entirely. Save the occasional Aero/2/3 dot. Regen is always kept up, occasionally a Medica 2 is thrown onto the ground. Depending upon the situation Assize is used as either a DPS or a Healing skill, but it's very rarely left stagnant, and Shroud of Saints is popped whenever it comes up due to the MP issues you mentioned. (And even when I use Assize as a DPS skill I almost always toggle Cleric Stance off the second the animation is done and go straight back to healing.)
It just really seems like many PLD's are made out of wet paper these days is all. Trash mobs routinely hit some of the ones I've been running with for a third or more of their health even with Shield Oath activated. Though, I did have one PLD who didn't even wish to use that until it was clear that it was the only way he'd be able to keep his threat from the rest of us. It just feels like there is much more room for error with the class, as a healer observing the situation at least. Where as by contrast I literally have only had one DRK that was a minor inconvenience to heal. I almost get giddy when I see DRK's now in the queue because of how easy they tend to be to work with, which is the opposite of what many people are saying is the case. Chances are with the new expac bringing many people back to the game I just got really unlucky with runs I had to work with a PLD and really -damn- lucky with runs I had to work with a DRK.
Perhaps it's a mixture of running into tanks who didn't know what they were doing, but also my being less than at my best for many of the other times it's occurred. I can accept that easily.
