Visual doom indicator like some other FF games

[Vyvian]

A good healer has to be observing the screen, whether they realize it or not. At a split second glance a person would recognize a doom symbol over a player much faster than it could be typed. Perhaps the healer already knew that doom was coming, but sometimes people screw up and don't stand where they are supposed to be standing and also got doomed. Usually you notice that too, but sometimes too much happens at once.

And lets face it, if your fighting a doom mob, the people tanking will have holy waters, but the guy thinking he's never pulling hate (like the THF or a RDM) never has them. Perhaps that's oversight on their part. If 3 people get doomed by apocalyptic ray because they all stood in a line because they failed to understand tauri mechanics, you'd see that onscreen faster than the chat log would load that it happened, and faster than all 3 people would type /p doom. In addition, you would see immediately on its removal as a visual indicator would dissapear. Cursna has an abysmal cast time and recast time, wasting casts because the person types that it came off too slow means you might not get to save a second person.

[Soranika]

A good healer has to be observing the screen, whether they realize it or not. At a split second glance a person would recognize a doom symbol over a player much faster than it could be typed. Perhaps the healer already knew that doom was coming, but sometimes people screw up and don't stand where they are supposed to be standing and also got doomed. Usually you notice that too, but sometimes too much happens at once.

And lets face it, if your fighting a doom mob, the people tanking will have holy waters, but the guy thinking he's never pulling hate (like the THF or a RDM) never has them. Perhaps that's oversight on their part. If 3 people get doomed by apocalyptic ray because they all stood in a line because they failed to understand tauri mechanics, you'd see that onscreen faster than the chat log would load that it happened, and faster than all 3 people would type /p doom. In addition, you would see immediately on its removal as a visual indicator would dissapear. Cursna has an abysmal cast time and recast time, wasting casts because the person types that it came off too slow means you might not get to save a second person.

-nod- Notice when I use cursna while subbing /whm. WHM/RDM on the other hand, plus fast cast gear, healing magic casting time reduction gear (mostly just Orison platoons +1/+2) and haste, cursna takes about 2 seconds to cast with 3-4 second recast time. WHM/SCH is slightly slower without the use of stratagems. I honestly wouldn't rely on any one other than WHM to reliably spam cursna to remove doom given the fact that healing magic effects success rate and even still there's only about at 25% chance at the most that it'll work.

It's worth noting though that with this doom argument of "3 seconds doom left" is actually more like 9 seconds. The count downs work like ticks with anything so you have anywhere from 20-30 seconds to be cured, not literally 5-10 seconds. So even if a WHM is unobservant of any visual cue, there is "time" to cast. And like Kansagaku stated, chat filters... Dunno why they seem so hard to be used.