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Ok, I'm having an issue. In a nut shell, I think I've upset people with my opinion on a whm in our HNM. It makes me doubt myself and I keep wondering if I'm wrong. So have at it and tell me what you think.
Heres the background......We have a new recruit that is a whm. After several events, I can't say that I support this person's attitude. At events I've watched his performance and talked with our "head" whm. He is't very happy with his performance either. (FYI, my whm is also 75.)
While I realize joining a HNM is intimidating and you need to learn a lot over time, I think the basic job of a whm is to cure. Am I right? If you have leveled a job for 75 levels and you can't even cure people in a decent timeframe at an event, doesn't that seem odd? Let's take a Limbus run. There were 14 people approx., one whm (him), 2 rdms, 2 blms (I was in this group), and assorted melee and tanks. (I believe this is fairly accurate.) During the entire run his mp didn't dip below 800 and his max is approx. 940ish. I wasn't able to perform my duties correctly for the entire run since I was erasing, paralynaing, curing, etc. (Thank goodness I subbed whm which I usually don't.) I would watch his mp and he'd have 850 and be resting or just standing there doing nothing. At the same time, the melee/tanks would have a few in the red. This went on through the entire event and at the end after killing off an entire floor of elementals, his mp was totally full.
Now imagine this behavior through several events. There was no improvement. The "head" whm would tell him on vent that he needed to stop resting (with nearly full mp) and cure since all he had of his 1100 mp was 50. Since when do you have to be told to cure if you have the mp and you are a whm!? Isn't that kinda second nature to you as a whm? I just don't see any effort from this person to pay attention or to do the job correctly. He's also been given some gentle suggestions and directions which obviously haven't worked.
Now I remember coming on whm to my first things in a HNM. I remember feeling intimidated by it all. But the one thing I also remember is if I couldn't get anything else right by God I was gonna keep people healed!! That IS my job on its most basic level!! So I spoke up and voiced my opinion that this person wasn't putting forth the effort and the responses were that he's new and he needs time. After 75 levels, all I was asking for was for him to HEAL.......was I asking for too much?
Heres the background......We have a new recruit that is a whm. After several events, I can't say that I support this person's attitude. At events I've watched his performance and talked with our "head" whm. He is't very happy with his performance either. (FYI, my whm is also 75.)
While I realize joining a HNM is intimidating and you need to learn a lot over time, I think the basic job of a whm is to cure. Am I right? If you have leveled a job for 75 levels and you can't even cure people in a decent timeframe at an event, doesn't that seem odd? Let's take a Limbus run. There were 14 people approx., one whm (him), 2 rdms, 2 blms (I was in this group), and assorted melee and tanks. (I believe this is fairly accurate.) During the entire run his mp didn't dip below 800 and his max is approx. 940ish. I wasn't able to perform my duties correctly for the entire run since I was erasing, paralynaing, curing, etc. (Thank goodness I subbed whm which I usually don't.) I would watch his mp and he'd have 850 and be resting or just standing there doing nothing. At the same time, the melee/tanks would have a few in the red. This went on through the entire event and at the end after killing off an entire floor of elementals, his mp was totally full.
Now imagine this behavior through several events. There was no improvement. The "head" whm would tell him on vent that he needed to stop resting (with nearly full mp) and cure since all he had of his 1100 mp was 50. Since when do you have to be told to cure if you have the mp and you are a whm!? Isn't that kinda second nature to you as a whm? I just don't see any effort from this person to pay attention or to do the job correctly. He's also been given some gentle suggestions and directions which obviously haven't worked.
Now I remember coming on whm to my first things in a HNM. I remember feeling intimidated by it all. But the one thing I also remember is if I couldn't get anything else right by God I was gonna keep people healed!! That IS my job on its most basic level!! So I spoke up and voiced my opinion that this person wasn't putting forth the effort and the responses were that he's new and he needs time. After 75 levels, all I was asking for was for him to HEAL.......was I asking for too much?
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