Quote from Duo64;202327:
if its specific math, once again life erg + web + bottle + craft cost is most definitely under 4k (worst case scenario)...each rune allows like 3 heals and each heal will most definitely heal way more than a pot...strictly math speaking, evie heals win...
again understand i'm not saying evies should healbot nor are they obligated to spam heals (i raided in WoW back in the days in 40man raids healbotting as priest) but when the pressures on like in my above scenario, theres simply no chance to pull off a pot, even a running one...if an evie is sitting there still dpsing in that situation, somethings most definitely wrong.
Marketplace:
Life Erg = 300
Spider Web = 150
Gold = 200
That's a total of 650 for 5 runes. The HP pots are 2k for 10 pots. And it's around 3-4 heals per rune. Not to mention, no if the Evy hasn't leveled heal up, the HP pots heal the same amount. All you're doing is going, "Oh screw paying for pots! That Evy can pay out of their own pockets instead".
The free runes don't cost anything, but they take up a spot in our small bars. One bar is Magic arrow, the next is Firebolt. Then we either have a choice of the healing rune, pots, a campfire kit, party feathers, or phoenix feathers. That doesn't give us a lot of choices. So look at it this way. Those healing runes that people were expecting to heal them? Are our pots.
The pressures of the above scenario
shouldn't happen, but sometimes they do. Even then, the Evy is most likely trying to survive and kill the boss faster. If they're geared toward damage, let them do what they do best. If they stop to use a healing rune, it's most likely on themselves (like I said, healing rune = our pots). If the group doesn't know how to dodge, then I'd say let them die and just kill the boss and then revive the party members at the end. It's your responsibility, like in Mabinogi, to survive - the mages in Mabi weren't there to heal you.. I don't see why people expect the Vindictus ones to do so.