Do you find healing relaxing?

I love healing the best out of the roles. Second of which is RDM as it is a mix of DPS and healing!

Oddly enough running a dungeon on a dps job stresses me out more than healing ^^;

Compared to tanking and dps, yeah. When tanking, I'm really doing the job of three people all in one role: controlling aggro, positioning, damage mitigation, and damage dealing. Damage dealing is a continual race. Healing is situational with friendly openings to do damage.

Healing
DPS
Tanking

In that order of enjoyment. PUGs are stressful.

Due to the scripted nature of the fights in FFXIV, my stress level of course depends on how familiar I am with each fight. But in general, when I tank or DPS I follow more of a strict rotation that when I heal, allowing for more flexibility, which is nice, but also requiring me to be more adaptive. Recently, my daily roulettes have been riddled with undergeared tanks who take delight in pulling well more than they should. That's when it becomes stressful - sometimes very much so. But those are the moments that make me really glad that my mains ARE healers and not more rotation-based classes. Its thrilling when you're pressing buttons, canceling casts, swapping targets at a moments notice, throwing out a split second buff or deciding what to do with that spear (oh CRAP, the Dragoon just ate that AoE - ED/Bene/Lust mash), etc. For me, that multi-tasking stress high is more rewarding than being top of the aggro table.

I don't find healing relaxing at all, but that's why I love it.

I love holding everyone's life in the balance and still putting out some decent damage.

When people mess up and -I- have to adjust, that's stress, but it's also a challenge.

When I'm running out of MP because 5+ people just died in the past 4 mins because they're new to an instance, that's stress, but once again, also fun.

Healing gets my blood running, sometimes my muscles even shake a little after a night of raiding as a healer because of all the excitement.

Some people find healing chill because of the scripted fights, to that I say: play with worse people ;) Nothing less scripted than non-top-tier human teammates.

I < 3 healing but I wouldn't call it relaxing.

I only enjoy healing if I go with friends, I have a lot of respect for anyone that plays healer or tank esp in pug groups, kudos to you!

I’m definitely more comfortable in my filthy casual dps roles.

I enjoy healing and find it relaxing. Not having to remember complex rotations frees me to enjoy the game.

That's not to say that there have not been any stressful moments; but, those have been due to players running out of range or pulling too much. Sometimes people need to be politely reminded successful runs are a team effort and a healer cannot carry the full weight of an instance run on their shoulders while the other players do whatever.



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Exactly! I tried tanking roles and always found it to stressful.

I play DPS roles here and there but cant find them apealing in the long run.

Healing on the other side is absolutely natural to me. I am not overconfident in that role. Just sure of my abilities after 12 years of playing healers across several MMOs.

And how many times I had conversation with other players who found tanking natural and healing to stresfull :D

It's the role I'm most comfortable with, though that doesn't necessarily mean I find it more relaxing than the others in general. I like walking the fine-line - keeping people alive, being reactionary on demand, and otherwise just slugging out damage when nothing is required of me (without any huge rotational concerns). Given MNK was my starting role, which involves constant rotations and positionals that can get quite tiresome with time and repetition, followed by levelling tanks -- I eventually gave CNJ a go before hitting max-level and never looked back. Back in the days of old CS, it felt just like my time spent as a Shadow Priest in WoW, so it fit like a glove.

If pushed, I'd probably say DPS was more relaxing, given you have limited ties to other team-members (with the 'stress' [if any] being primarily tied the classes themselves rather than the situation), but when I want to get my game-face on and/or enjoy the game my way, I'm swapping to WHM and doing those totally illogical aerial-spinning-animations-that-make-little-sense.

I live in the Roulettes and healing can be pretty stressful when you never know what you're gonna get. Constantly trying to be in range of casters and ranged dps is my only gripe. Why do RDMs jumo so far before every Succor goes off. Just why! I do think that familiarity with any class makes it relaxing. I thought Tanking would be a nightmare but leveling without a jump potion really helps you learn the classes and breath easy as the new skills merge into your play style.