Why do you heal?

[Sumara]

Well...it is a lot of fun to heal. Can be stressful at time, but it's a good stress. You have peoples' lives in your hands.

Another reason? If someone angers you, you can let them eat dirt as payback

[Akubikumo]

I think my favorite part of healing, as a scholar at least, is it lets me (well...forces me) to have a bird's eye view of the battle. I don't need to crowd control or worry about maintaing rotations and damage numbers. I'm the tactician. Filling in gaps, catching falling balloons, thinking 5 steps ahead. For me healing is all about strategy and "big picture" ideas. Thats fun. Most of the time. Other times I just wanna blow shit up.

[Mirili]

I'm kind of surprised by the "Harder than DPS'ing" comments. I've always been really intimidated by DPS'ing, and hopped on the SCH train as soon as I hit 30 ACN. Keeping track of cooldowns, maintaining a proper rotation, and micromanaging Garuda is way more difficult for me. Especially over an exended period of time. I'll often just panic and flub it and struggle to recover.

As a SCH, I really only have to manage Aetherflow stacks and watch HP bars. And control Eos, but that's only a couple buttons, and you don't use most of them just because they're up. I get to decide when's best. If I do something silly in Cleric Stance mode, like forget to Shadowflare, or Miasma II, or something, it's not a big deal 'cause any damage I'm doing is just a nice bonus.

I've tried tanking. It seems like the easiest of the three roles, but I turn into a controlling psycho-bitch when I'm leading the pack. I always walk away hating everyone and everything they do "wrong." Like, stand in front of me. At any point, ever, for any reason. Or run ahead. I take offense. I will *walk* to the next pack of mobs. If someone face-pulls, I just stand there and watch. I didn't make it very far.

So, uh, I guess I've been healing 'cause it's the only job that doesn't make me a neurotic mess, or a shortfuse.

[AnaviAnael]

I heal because nobody else will do it. lol

[SummonerSenah]

When you're tired of running the same content as a role it's time to switch it up. Healing is amazingly fun the first few times you do content

This, for the most part. I have all jobs leveled to 50 but I did all of the DPS first and got kind of bored with running everything as a DPS. I don't think I'm cut out to be a tank, so healer's the other option. At first I was really intimidated by healing, but I had it leveled and ended up helping other people out doing dungeons and gradually got pretty comfortable with it. Now it's my second favorite job. ^_^

[razzgrizz3]

fast qeue times

[Dijana]

Another reason? If someone angers you, you can let them eat dirt as payback

Haha...I will admit, I havent let someone die but I did a dungeon once with a very arrogant tank who was telling the DPS to shut up and do as he says, he's the tank so he leads the run...I let him hover right around 20% hp and kept chain on that, didnt follow ahead if he was rude to make him sweat, just to let him know who's REALLY in charge of the run.

[Nep_Nep]

To me its fun and different from DPSing. I also get to see things from the healer's point of view and because of that I respect them alot more. Especially ones that have their Relic. Them Titan stomps were scary. Also.. I love the pretty WHM outfit on my character. xD

[Silvahn]

the main reason for me is because only healers can make the party recover or comeback from a mess.

for the most part (keyword: "most) of the endgame contents

1) DPS can die, yes we can still recover provided we have enough dps on the dps check
2) Tanks, well basically they could die, provided you have a OT or could kite around a little
3) but a healer should/could never die, yes there is a second healer and a lot of contents can be solo healed. but in keeping everyone alive they have a more higher priority to live

but the feeling when a lot of shit mess up or not going according to plan (someone dc,lagging) healers are the one who will need to improvise, they are the one in charge to bring the momentum back on their phase and regain control of a losing battle.

the feeling of winning/clearing a run after a lot of fked up or mess up moments and multiple deaths is the best feeling and why i stay as a healer.

[necrosis]

Why do I heal?

For cure. I was in both 1.0 and 2.0 alpha and beta. Learned that it was a very good idea to at least have Cure I when low level DPS grinding. Started CNJ to have Cure I on my road to BRD. Never did that though. Just kept playing CNJ... then WHM. Just kept going to 50. Granted over time DPS invites REALLY started dropping off in dungeons (I **HATE** FATE's) so that did keep me on the WHM train. Actually started liking the job over time. Still like it. I find DPS brain dead boring and I do not "get" tanking in this game despite doing it for 7 years in FFXI. I also like having some control over the party.