Ever found yourself counting how many tiles are on the floor in a FFXIV Dungeon or Raid fight? Ever wonder what the healer is actually doing? WORRY NO MORE! Here are the three reasons they aren’t raising you….
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DEAR FFXIV DPS: The TOP 3 REAL Reasons Your Healer Hasn't Raised You
Ever found yourself counting how many tiles are on the floor in a FFXIV Dungeon or Raid fight? Ever wonder what the healer is actually doing? WORRY NO MORE! Here are the three reasons they aren’t raising you….
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Additional bonus reason: tank and a dps were busy covering platforms in mud and I only needed the tank. This is how you get called a bot.
Look man, I care about you being dead. If the hp bars aren't full the voices get loud again. But sometimes zurvan just decides you have to die and I gotta make due with what I got. Also I'm new to healing, leave me alone. Don't yell at me.
The real reason I don't rez you: I don't like you. Yes, it is personal.
As a WHM main I will give you the answer. Healers come first (I make sure I have enough HP to stay up). Next comes the tanks (They hold the hate and absorb damage as I am attempting to heal or raise). Lastly comes DPS. I’m sorry but without a healer, everyone dies, without a tank..”possibly” everyone dies.
Edit* also like she said, that raise cast timer is a motherf*ker. If my swift cast is in cooldown, I will be debating on risking the long raise cast, or healing others until my swift cast is back. Sometimes we just can’t stand still for that long raise cast timer.
"Why haven't I raised you yet? Oh, that's easy. You complained about me "doing nothing" mere seconds after I swift-raised the poor first timer to this raid and has no clue what's going on despite their best efforts to keep up. Ignoring the fact that I've used Dia, a Lily, AND Tetra on other party members in that few second window (all of which are instant, so you won't see me pausing to cast them), while dodging a mechanic that REQUIRES me, and EVERYBODY ELSE, to move. Which you outright chose to NOT move for. And how do I know you chose not to? Because your primary gripe about me not immediately raising you and excuse of me "doing nothing" is because it's hurting your PARSE of all things. In fact, the other healer will have to raise you, because I now refuse."
…And I wish that wasn't a summary of a real event. Still angers me to think about. And it happened in the second alliance raid I ever did, which happened to be my second run of Copied Factory. Almost made me not bother with that content. Which would have been sad, because alliance raids ended up becoming the stuff I enjoy the most.
Oh, and the heal priority stuff is easy! It's clearly 1&2) Tank/Other Rezzers. They're interchangeable, depending entirely on what's happening in the fight. 3) Everybody else. Though I guess you could split that into sub categories, into things like "Has no clue what's going on because they're new here", "Trying to do mechanics, but is just failing", "Tunnel visioned on accident", "Wrong button", "Died goofing off 'cause the fight's not really a challenge" and the sort. All of which is fine, no harm, sometimes its even funny, and will be gotten to as soon as able. And then there's the bottom of the list with things like "Has refused to do any mechanic because Uptime, despite dying every single time they do this", or like the above, just being an ass. We'll get to you… when we feel like it.
I thought it would just be: "You're not my kid. I ain't gotta raise you."
I main RDM.
been yelled at by the fc for a raise. I was like one second
I used to be way, way too eager to raise people. Like, I would always drop everything to do it immediately, make it priority one… only to lose too much focus on healing the people still up or mechanics still going on. Sorry to say it, but triage is a thing… and if you’re on the floor, you are at the very least not currently in danger.
I just started healing with sage after starting five dps classes and and three tanks. If swiftcast is out your res is in queue
swiftcast, i am not wasting 7-8 seconds ressing if its not a bunch of new players for content that is kinda tricky for first timers (thanks snapshot M4)
If you die, you messed up. If you don't take extra damage the healing I am doing should be more than enough to keep you alive.
When you're making out with the floor, it's a literal skill issue. Don't tell the healers how to play the game or what they should do when you're the one face down eating dirt.
Don't get on a healers shit list cus sadly for you, your health bar in in our hands and I honestly have better ways to use my mana than revive someone who died for the 7th time ignoring or fucking up a mechanic and ISN'T new to the content we're doing.
I rescue people into the bad and dont rez
Need to assert my dominance by doing more dps than a dps
Not exactly a healer main but I have all jobs lv100, if I don't raise someone it's either because hard rez takes too long unless I can stand idle for that long, or if they've died multiple times and fail to figure out why they keep dying, watch the attack patterns and learn the boss's rotation, all fights follow a pattern that repeats after all attacks get used at least once or twice. No point wasting MP on someone whose just going to die to the next attack because they didn't pay attention!
As a DPS main that dies on occasion, ill wait and watch attacks going off before accepting a raise so I'm not raising into insta-death. Never expect to have Transcendence upon raising! You won't always be invulnerable for 5s after that raise!
Anywho, rant over and getting back to the new MSQ.
"Believe me I'm not ignoring you.".
whispers "I would never"
meanwhile me whispering back "I would definitely" lol
jk jk i'm kind as a healer… i swear >.>, don't look at me like that…. i have my moments ok…… lol
Haha top reason… you died 3 times already to the simplest mechanics, and the healers have more dps agro than you…not worth raising you yet, you're just gonna die again
If a dps dies twice while the first boss of Origenics is slamming puddles, I'm not raising them until he's done slamming from then on.
everything is a better reason than "you need to pay me GIL when i raise you"
I usually heal, but playing an unfamiliar dps I miss the mechanic and die. Usually if I'm eating floor a while, it's understandable but sometimes healers will leave me as long as a minute under stress free circumstances like I did it on purpose
If i raise someone and they waste their trancendent just to die to a raidwide immediately – you gon be in timeout
I mean, the only time ive ever gotten mad at a healer for not rezzing me is during a run of void ark where i didnt die through the entire raid until the final boss when the tanks didnt pull the adds apart fast enough and i got killed from the add's aoe. Me and one other person in my party were dead (other alliances were fine). The other person was rez'd and i just.. sat there. I didnt get rez'd til i said something in party chat, and by that time we were entering 2nd adds phase (well over 2 minutes later)….. the healers mp was also fine.. i was just dumbfounded..
Youre raising me currently
I don't raise Lalafells
Also sometimes I don’t rez you because both of us healers accidentally chose to rez the same player and now we’re both down a swiftcast
Reason 1, I'm trying to keep the tank alive. Reason 2, I havent noticed you hugging the floor yet. Reason 3, I'm punishing you for standing in aoes, yes it's petty and hurting the raid but it's the only way you'll learn.
1. I swiftcasted for DPS 12 seconds ago, stop dying to the first mechanic.
2. I swiftcasted for DPS 12 seconds ago, stop dying to the third mechanic.
3. I just rezzed the other DPS that seems to be blissfully unaware of what a telegraph is.
Bonus: 4. I swiftcasted for DPS 12 seconds ago, and I'm a glare mage so deal with it. (they don't say this, but I feel like this is what's happening when the WHM won't res people)
Oh get over yourself.
i don't mind waiting so much. i do mind being raised and then dying to the next raidwide because no one healed me.
i also mind when I'm the only rez mage and you raise every other dps before me. bonus points if you raise the same person multiple times before you get to me.
As a DPS I don't care if the healer doesn't raise me right away. Go ahead, take your time, make the fight last that much longer.
I dont tend to question how long it takes to raise, but I do question when a healer raises another dps over a rdm or smn who could help with raising the others. Like… if I'm a bard, and you raise me first when there's a rdm and a samurai on the floor with me, literally what are you thinking? Lol
maybe i should play WHM..i love the passive aggression
Healers who dont rez me are totally fine. I dont get mad.
When a healer dies though. Theyre fucking useless to me and everyone else and i hate those people.
Its a yin and yang really. Responsibility, spiderman, you get it
1:24 If you see/hear that targeting arrow on you, I've committed. But that's 8 seconds. If something happens that forces me to move, sorry kiddo. I will, in most cases, do my damnedest, but I have to assess that risk every time I stop moving.
This is why Black Mage and Pictomancer need [Necromancy] and [Life Imitates Art]…
Tank main here but also leveling up a couple melee dps and a white mage. I completely understand if it takes a while to raise me when I decide to spend some quality time with the floor. Healers have a lot to keep track of, and I’m still learning how to do that without being in a constant state of panic. Healer is still the most intimidating job for me.
Only time I deliberately didn’t rez a DRK in Doma Castle was: he was pulling huge, not using mitigation or self healing (this was back when Abyssal Drain only healed with Dark Arts), then blaming me, a SCH, for not keeping him alive despite blowing through everything I had to keep him up. He deliberately ran back into Grynewaht’s avoidable chainsaw attack, so I left him on the floor when he fell over from it. He got mad at the whole party, both DPS told him to shut up, and we left him in the dirt.
Guys, guys, hear me out. The lala died to a perfectly natural cause, trust me.
These are the reasons I haven't raised you, in order:
1. My swiftcast is on cooldown.
2. I'm busy keeping everyone else alive.
3. I don't have the mana.
4. I have charges of Glare IV to spend.
As a person who stared off as a ranged dps and then became a healer in heavensward and honestly I think that golden divine scroll of raise order just manifests in you after some time like you have become one with the gods of reviving and they bestow apon you the secrets of raising. Also there are those moments where some one just dies too much and you just feel either bad for that person or a bit of contempt and just throw you hands in the air and say "you know what just lie there for a second catch some Z's and let me get my my back". I know this is calling out my fc leader but there is a dungeon where a boss uses it's head as a hammer of sorts and it pushes you and you can fall off the map and I counted 14 times that my fc leader fell and they don't want to do dungeons without me since I'm the trusted and only healer of the fc at the time.
Love this video and I agree with everything that is said here.
This is the best video I have ever seen.
I'm gonna be real to some of you who definitely knows that this is one of you, i won't prioritize rezzing you if you keep dying to the same mechanic you've seen 6 billion times lol
FYI – As a DPS main myself (Monk) – If you get that raise, you should be looking at the situation and if you know a mechanic is going to go off at about the time you would stand back up on the floor; you should WAIT to click okay, so you don't pop up and go straight back down again. Don't trust the few seconds 'grace period you get IF you don't move. Sometimes that server cheats OR you accidently move a bit and BOOM you're hit again.
And that Healer priority list has other downed Healers and Tanks before you. The best thing you can do as a DPS is stay out of sh!t and learn/figure out how and when to use you own limited self healing and damage mitigation abilities to full effect, and don't expect the Healer to always save your ass. If it's between saving you and the Tank or you and another healer who's HP bar is near death, yeah, they come BEFORE DPS. We're expected to keep ourselves alive.