Fellow WHM, please, do your job.

Bottom line - if you aren't in a party, healing yields extremely unpredictable rewards. Is it possible to garner great rewards? Absolutely! Is it predictable? Not at all. I keep the tank alive and anyone else is out of luck, I'm afraid, while I do what damage I can to up my odds. In a party, I heal, and dps when healing isn't needed. Until SE fixes the broken healing rewards system, this will continue to be the case for (I dare say) the majority of healers. In other MMO's, giving healers credit (for example) for healing a person who got a kill in PvP helped a TON. That enables healers to do what they're meant to do - heal.

As for raising, I quickly look to see if anyone needs a raise but I don't waste a lot of time searching. I don't mind people asking for a raise if they happen to be nearby, and I often will drop a heal on someone I'm passing by if they're going to bite it. I do my job so much as SE allows me to do it AND ALSO to benefit from doing it. Simple as that.

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Originally Posted by Nipa

This game need public raid groups, so healers can actually heal something and earn rewards during FATEs.

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^ agreed.... would help this issue a lot. It isn't the "healers" fault that they are not healing during fates and resing. They won't get the max reward that way.

I try to balance my healing and damaging. Not easy ^^;
Mostly the biggest problem I have healing during FATE's is selecting one guy out of 50. By the time you're selected, someone healed you first or you died :P
Just party up with one of us White Mages. Soooooo much easier on every level for us. Also, you get priority healing ^^ wins for all.

Another thing for WHM's, take a minute to check for dead people after a FATE. Last night 20 or whatever guys left for the next FATE after zerging one, only for me to stay a little bit longer and find a dead guy (trampled into the ground most likely) amongst it all ^^;
Reminds me of some mosh pits I've been in... hmm >_>

If I am in a party for a fate then sure, I will raise people (even out of party) on my scholar. If I'm not in a party? Then I will be on Summoner anyway because that gets golds far easier. I will toss a raise whenever swiftcast is up, but I'm not healing your healer-excluding behind.

In fact, what are the healers in your party doing anyway? Why aren't they raising you?

i heal always and i always get gold without hitting the boss or mobs

i dont know if you guys serious or trolling

Yeah i heal random people and after the fate i dont even get credit, thats just poor design. Sqaure needs to change that.

You also have to realise that most of those whms are in parties with other people, and are busy caring about the lives of their party members. That, added to the fact that there is about 500 people around means that, even if i was playing whm on fates, which i'm not, I would still care about my party members before anyone else, after all, they are the ones who will help my party get a gold off the FATE...

Can't raise bodies I can't see. And no, I have an above average machine.

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Originally Posted by Nipa

This game need public raid groups, so healers can actually heal something and earn rewards during FATEs.

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Yeah, they need to bring back the Alliance system from FFXI, but polish it up a bit interface-wise. (Taking some nods from WoW wouldn't hurt there.)
I'm honestly shocked there isn't such a system already, given how FATE's work, and how some of the biggest encounters happen in the open world..

I healed entire Behemoth fate once, from the moment it started until it ended, guess what I got? Not even bronze, healing doesn't give any credit whatsoever on Odin and Behemoth, so no thanks I'm not gonna heal you so you can get gold while I don't get shit all. Blame Square for not letting healing get contribution on the lvl 50 fates.