So what does it feel like, being a Galka BLU?

You don't need anything special to use stpt or stal. Anyone with a half a brain on any system playing FFXI can make a macro using <stpt> or <stal> to heal others. It is not difficult. If your healers can't figure this out they should be educated if they haven't been already, if they still refuse they are terrible healers.

You missed the point man. Half the healers in this game aren't really healers. There are many sch you will run into that just have a light staff and manually cure because all they know how to do is NUKE and then there's non whm/sch/rdm/whatever that CAN heal but won't macro for it since that's not really their concern. My blu heals quite a bit (quite as in it heals more often than a blu should ever heal) and i use <st> because there are gear swaps that follow.

Should i be concerned with blinking people? Not really.. i know when people will swap because of the nature of their job and if they are the mob target or not. I play with a controller so healing is far from difficult even on super blinking targets unlike a keyboard which i used to play on.

That's a problem with who you play with, not with the lack of gear swapping saving you. If you are constantly surrounded by such healers I must question why you would subject yourself to such situations, constantly, without taking measures to keep yourself alive.

I'm starting to think stal and stpt might be a keyboard preference. I never have an issue when healing on my smn or blu/dnc who only has a healing swap macro. On a controller i just need to tilt the camera and hit left or right to land a heal. I won't say that those aren't bad ideas you present but people don't die on my watch unless i fall asleep or they start without me. Just a few mins ago i made the macros for healing on my dnc/war and i found it to be no different than camera tilting for heals which leads me to lean more towards sticking to camera healing (unless there's that odd situation where someone runs ooR but then again i pivot/move a lot).

So while i won't refute the usefulness of stpt and stal i will say that there seems to be a difference in healing and i don't think it would be any good to have 1 standard way of healing. In all the other MMOs i've played there were female healers that i knew who would often find TYPING the whole HEALING COMMAND to be faster/effiecient! Not to say that 1 gender is faster or anything but it's to say that there are different ways to get the job done. Yours is just one of few.

There are several ways to heal I will agree, but if losing target constantly is being an issue and you aren't taking a quick step to correct it you are being obstinate/stubborn. That is what I have a problem with, healers saying they feel 'entitled' to let people die because they consider it too difficult to perform their job and ensure heals are landing on others when they need it.

If i see those people in a party, i leave immediately.

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Originally Posted by Trisscar

I also play WHM, RDM and DNC, and have a different morale: If you feel that an extra 1% dmg is so worth it that you macro it in while someone is trying to keep you alive than you deserve to get your face raped.

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I play White Mage 90% of the time I play Final Fantasy XI and I have a different different morale: If anybody has a problem with losing target on folks, replace whatever is in your macros with <stal> (or <stpt> when applicable) right now and stop making other people have less fun.

Ultimately, the end goal of playing a support job is to make things more fun for the people hitting things with things. Keeping them alive, free from paralyze, and covered in Haste-goop or whatever are just means to this end. Adopting a disgusting attitude of entitlement and expecting everyone to reduce themselves to your level doesn't make things more fun for anybody.

Judging from the seething tone in your posts, it doesn't even make things more fun for you.

Don't even understand what's going on here.

We're being err... informative :D or something.. but one thing i hate to say is that it seems as though SE FOOOOOLISHLY changed how breaths work (breath damage + healing would be an awesome build and i'd loose those int/mnd swaps ASAfreakingP) and didn't make the new ones scale following the pattern of the pre76 spells D:< imho those would dictate weather i would have chosen hume or galka for blu since a galka blu would do some amazing damage with a breath build vs a int/mnd build.

That being said... if they'd undo what ever they did to make breath spells suck against anything that's worthwhile then it would be pretty nice to see alternate damage builds. We see tons of magic/phy but not enough breath and non-element magic in this game and it could use a change.

who are these people that refuse to put <stal> in macros? seriously, how do they keep showing up on these forums, cuz i've never met one in game?

the closest i ever came was a poor lil' taru whm who was unaware. an hour or 2 into the xp pt he sends me a /tell like "oh man, your gear swaps have prolly killed like 100 of my cures"
to wich i replied "you know if you use <stal> as the target line of the macro, you can choose off the list and it won't shake you when i blink"
to wich he replied "really? *long pause* swap something for me? *cast spell* cool!"

then we danced on the corpse of the stupid bugard, and i carried him about on my shoulders so he could feel what it would be like to Gaxe the fuck out of things like a mighty giant.


notice how in no part of that story did a completely random underlvled aby burned whm.. think it was somehow MY fault for swapping gear... i dunno where the fuck those people come from but they are somehow even below sewper-newbs.