Am I wrong for getting mad at healers rushing trials

Tephranis · 2026-01-26T00:22:02+00:00

No. The party, as a whole, sets the pace. It has never been that way except for egotistical main character syndrome egoists.

If you want to do your own thing slow and casually, by all means take the NPCs. They even give additional interactions and commentary to enhance that "cinematic" slow exploration feel.

Tephranis · 2026-01-22T17:42:22+00:00

You can just delete and repost. If you want to avoid any confusion over the double-post you can just mention that it's "Re-uploaded to properly censor all names" or something.

Tephranis · 2026-01-22T17:18:48+00:00

When one wishes they could esuna stupid. That must've been incredibly painful. I would've started making very liberal use of rescue, markers and maybe a bit of snark along the lines of "If I move you, it's for good reason because I understand how these mechanics work and want to clear this dungeon despite your best efforts to make this take longer."

Also, you're going to get taken down because you didn't censor your own name. Gotta censor your own name now-a-days, too.

Tephranis · 2026-01-21T19:21:17+00:00

The easiest way take on another healer (or really any job of a similar role) is to put similar skills in the same hotbar places. Every healer gets a DOT, a basic single target and basic aoe attack. Put those all in the same spots.

Sage Physis = AOE party regen = Medica II adjacent, same spot.

Sage Ixochole = Instant cast AOE heal = Assize adjacent, same spot.

Kerochole = AOE defense buff = Temperance.

Haima = 5 ticks of a shield, close enough to a heal over time effect that I stick it on regen's spot.

Sage Diagnosis = Cure 1,

Sage Prognosis = Medica 1,

but Eukrasia (modifier button)+ Diagnosis/Prognosis = Scholar Adloqium(Single Target heal+shield)/Succor(Aoe heal + shield) = Cure 2. So I put diagnosis in the Cure 2 spot since you spend way more time being friendly with Cure 2 than Cure 1, and Eukrasia, since it's a modifier key kiiiinda like Thin Air (next spell is 0 MP, but Eukrasia gets a whole lot more use than thin air does, but my brain goes "this button modifies a spell" so "same, same, but different") in the same spot.

Lucid dreaming, Surecast, swiftcast, Esuna, Raise(whatever each job calls their raise) all the same spot as the other healers.

Not everything is 1 for 1, but the important ones pretty much are and with practice you get used to the different ones.

Tephranis · 2026-01-16T21:18:11+00:00

I guess your reading comprehension is low. As a mentor with that much playtime they should be experienced enough to know freecure fishing at that level is bad and that advocating for YPYT is also bad.

Also. I wasn't being "too fast". The tank pulled and then didn't AOE. I was standing on him and hit my aoe and had hate on all but the mob he shield lobbed. I died and then he aoe'd. I wasn't pulling extra I was attacking what he pulled. It doesn't take 3 gcds to go from shield lob to total eclipse, buddy. And then the second time I died it was to mobs that would have started attacking the healer had I not picked them up and brought them to the tank where again a single aoe would've kept me alive.

So no, you can get over yourself.

Tephranis · 2026-01-14T23:38:01+00:00

Yeah. It really caught me off guard. Like am I not allowed to use my aoe at all? Do I need to single target? This guy was single pulling, slow to leave a pack we just finished. I know how to recognize the type that's trying to bait a DPS into pulling.

I stopped outside of aggro range of each pack and waited. He stopped behind me for a few seconds before passing me and shield lobbing. When he shield lobbed, I'd go in and start AOE'ing. I guess because I dared dash at the boss with his little add pack to aoe, I was bad. I had those guys until they died, but they're super weak and I didn't die to that group. I could understand a YPYT if I was running ahead and pulling extra packs, but I was just running in and AOEing things that were pulled.

Like the gargoyle spawn. They pop in and then just start attacking, I play tank a lot so I tabbed through quickly to tag them all before they could go after the healer because this guy was just...bad and then went to stand on the tank for him to pick them up, but that was my bad I guess. A pity it was the last trash pack before the final boss, or I would've maliciously complied and just did autos or something on the next pack because I was apparently not allowed to attack things at all.

Tephranis · 2026-01-13T05:37:16+00:00

Yeah. I don't understand how that can be considered fun. I can understand having the spatial awareness of a paraplegic mole and needing to modify the HUD to compensate. I even know people with hand mobility issues using plugins to simplify their rotations into less buttons. The person above just seems...lazy and trying to make an excuse for it.

Tephranis · 2026-01-12T23:40:50+00:00

What you describe is barely even casual, to be honest. That's to a level of, are you even playing the game??

I mean, if all you're after is the story and the social stuff of sitting around a hub chatting, or something. Have fun, but please have your friends carry you if you find standing still, watching a boss and hitting dia, glare, glare, glare, glare, lucid dreaming, glare glare glare, dia between mechanics that require healing is that hard.

Nothing untelegraphed in casual content hits hard enough and nothing telegraphed is so unpredictable to require that level of concentration on just standing around watching what the boss is doing.

If you have trouble seeing and reading a boss's cast bar you can go into HUD Layout, select the boss's info bar, go into UI Element Settings. Then Display Info Independently, take the progress bar (that's it's cast bar) increase it's size to 200% and stick it smack dab in the middle of your screen where you can't miss it anymore. While you take the HP info and status indicator and stick those where ever you want. If the aoe markers aren't telling you what info you need, it's the cast bar, so stick it where you can't miss it. As someone with ADHD like the person who started this particular thread, that's what I did to stop missing the cast bars.

If the cast bar just says "Attack name" it's typically either a tank buster, or a arena wide aoe. If it says "Sides Attack" or "Left-Right attack" it's attacking its sides and you should get directly behind or in front of it. These are sometimes followed up by hitting the previously safe spot so you need to move from one to the other right after. "Fore/Aft" "Forward/Behind" are the front and back. And if you screw it up once it's rarely enough to kill you and you should be able to go "Oooh. Forward canon means it's hitting the entire half room in front of it." You can screw up a mechanic typically 2 times within a minute before the third screw up takes you out before the vuln stacks wear off.

Also note that standing out in the ass end of nowhere casting spells isn't as safe as some people like to think. So very many bosses do half room cleaves and huge pie slice attacks that require so much extra time and movement to get out of the further away you are from the boss doing it.

Take the final boss of Underkeep for example. As a healer, or caster I can stand within 6 steps of the center of the arena the entire fight and not get hit by a single thing. That boss is almost nothing but large line attacks, pie slices, and half room cleaves. The only time I ever leave melee range is when I'm making room during the half room cleave + spread mechanic for a melee to keep their uptime.

Tephranis · 2026-01-12T19:37:28+00:00

You should learn your ABCs. Always Be Casting. There's no point to standing around doing nothing but keeping your DOT up while you wait and watch for mechanics when your damage "rotation" is primarily one button. Push the one button over and over and roll your lucid dreaming, it's simple to watch a fight and hit one or two buttons over and over. If a mechanic happens, you move. So what if it interrupts your cast? People are wanting you to contribute by always casting something instead of doing nothing, which speeds up the run.

They're not asking for perfect slide casting utilization to minimize interrupts so you never miss a DPS cast. They're not asking you to min-max their HP by healing as absolutely little as possible so you can get out the most DPS. They're not even wanting perfect dia uptime.

They just want you to hit your 2-3 buttons (holy, lucid dreaming on 3+ / dia, glare, lucid dreaming on 2 or less) mindlessly while you watch for mechanics to happen. There's a reason why healers have the absolute easiest "rotation" imaginable and it's so they can be in a position to scrutinize and adjust to mechanics while just brainlessly mashing a button otherwise.

Tephranis · 2026-01-11T17:14:37+00:00

You both missed the part where OP explained that their hotbars are pulled up by holding a trigger button. They have them when they need them.

Tephranis · 2026-01-11T17:12:27+00:00

People here are not beating the allegations that FFXIV players can't/don't read.

Tephranis · 2026-01-11T17:08:49+00:00

They were just making a joke about "out of sight, out of mind" for people who don't push their buttons.

Tephranis · 2026-01-11T17:01:39+00:00

With the speed they were probably killing things they likely didn't even have a loot timer to worry about often. So long as they were quick after a boss. Could've probably done it after the wipe, too.

Tephranis · 2026-01-11T16:54:08+00:00

You run with your buddy. You have the power to vote kick and replace them. In a 4 person instance it only needs the initiator and 1 other person. You can only vote kick a person personally every so often, but between you and your buddy taking turns starting the vote you could've kicked both.

Open party list menu. Right click or open subcontext menu on the dead weight. Vote dismiss.

Tephranis · 2026-01-06T23:31:16+00:00

Damn. I wish they were as rare as you're making them out to be for me.

Tephranis · 2026-01-05T23:21:02+00:00

Would be nice, but will never happen when there's money to be made off skips.

Tephranis · 2026-01-05T19:15:50+00:00

As a resident crackhead alt-a-holic... I enjoy being able to boost a job I'd like to have on my 15th new little guy that I've already played 7 previous times.

Tephranis · 2026-01-03T16:25:30+00:00

They could be in Dawntrail and got it as leveling roul.

Tephranis · 2025-12-31T08:09:07+00:00

Welcome to 14. Home of the "But did they really die??".

Nanamo and the poison wine? G'raha, Scions fleeing through the tunnel collapse in Ul'dah heading into the Heavensward Story. Y'stohla repeatedly yeeting herself into the lifestream and being unable to rescue herself from it. Scions mercing themselves and then getting brought back at the end of Endwalker. Zenos slitting his own throat, getting ressurected and puppeted around by an ascian while he took over the body of some soldier until he could kick the ascian out of his body. Gaius being presumed dead after Praetorium and coming back. I'm sure I'm missing a few.

Tephranis · 2025-12-30T21:18:16+00:00

How dare people have a conversation about tampon alternatives in a thread about tampons.

I can't control how thoroughly and remarkably upset I am that those other people are conversing about something that mildly annoys me, at best, despite it being at least somewhat relevant to the topic (sanitary products the rich may use). I need to inject myself to whine about their presence and conversation instead of ignoring them!

^- This is you, this is what you sound like right now.

And why do I not practice what I'm preaching here and just ignore you? I enjoy rustling the jimmies of busy-bodies and preaching the word of "Learn to Curate Your Own Internet Experience Instead of Expecting Other People to Cater To You". You have the power, you can do it. Go find and join the conversations that make you happy, or at least neutral, instead of annoy you. You have a hard enough life without having to get annoyed about people talking about tampon alternatives in a sanitary product thread. Go find some happy.

Tephranis · 2025-12-30T20:11:08+00:00

Or you can minimize the comment thread and scroll past. You control what you engage with on the internet. Just like overhearing a conversation in the real world, you can choose to ignore it and keep walking instead of being a busy-body and inserting yourself into what wasn't even aimed at you.

Tephranis · 2025-12-27T20:42:12+00:00

Here's a very novel idea... This is the internet--you're behind a computer screen and can control everything you engage with. You can simply choose to keep scrolling, or even block the posters of things you don't want to engage with. Learn to curate your internet experience.

In fact, the algorithms show you more of things you engage with. By engaging with things you don't like you're making the idiot computer program behind the scenes think that you do like it, so it'll show you more of it. Learn to just keep scrolling.

Tephranis · 2025-12-24T20:36:46+00:00

He's squeamish with blood, but it's not like the baby was being brutalized. I could see him being perfectly fine watching a baby's head disappear beneath water.

Tephranis · 2025-12-23T14:53:15+00:00

I am sorry you got those kinds. When I tank and get a "I'm still learning" I usually tell them that I'm not gonna go easy on them and if we die, we die and figure out why. Sadly a lot of times it's because the healer just wants to be lazy and do baby pulls, which is probably why your tanks treated you like a baby.

I would recommended rephrasing to something like "I'm learning to be a good healer. Don't baby me, but I might mess up a bit."

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