A Need For Healers?

This seems to be one of the few MMOs where there isn't a dire need for people to play healer. There's usually an influx of tanks and DPS classes, but healers are a precious commodity, and good healers are even rarer still I'm not complaining, more framing a question: Are there any servers where healers are needed? I've glanced over the server sections and haven't seen a drastic need for healers yet, which is impressive and interesting.

I'm currently playing on Gilga and loving it. The community is very pleasant and I've yet to have a bad experience playing. With that said, I really enjoy raiding in a PUG but parties seem to take quite a while to form: usually waiting on the tank. Are there any servers where the parties are waiting on the healers? What about Balmung (or any other RP servers).

Thanks in advance!

I've seen a few static recruitment messages up for healers on Balmung. On the other hand, my EXRL queues lately aren't particularly short.

Good healers are needed everywhere. But much like other roles they are few and far between.

At this point in time I've seen a really strong demand for good bards and machinists. They seem to be lacking in the savage area. Seems like a lot of people dropped the job to try other things.

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Originally Posted by Dante_V

At this point in time I've seen a really strong demand for good bards and machinists. They seem to be lacking in the savage area. Seems like a lot of people dropped the job to try other things.

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Been seeing those too. Well, can't really blame em... If you're gonna be a caster might as well go for the big guns.

Thank you all so much for your feedback, I really do appreciate it! I may move over to Balmung at a later date for RP and for more party purposes, but Gilga is still my home and I'm still really enjoying the community.

Again, thank you!

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Originally Posted by ConstantineBelmonte

I'm currently playing on Gilga and loving it. The community is very pleasant and I've yet to have a bad experience playing.

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Are we talking about the same Gilg server? XD

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What about Balmung (or any other RP servers).

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Gilg has RP, if you know where to look. It's definitely not as prominent as it is on Bal, but Gilg has a little bit of everything; RP, PvE, raids, PvP, casual, ect. If you want to do it, chances are that there are others who want to do it too.

As someone who uses the PF on greg I can say that healer spots fill fast.

Primal data center, tanks almost always adventurer in need on every roulette, not sure what algorithm for that is though so I don't really trust it (for example, does it check for tanks first? THEN check healers? Let's say there's 4 tanks in duty roulette but only one healer, but it doesn't deem 4 as enough so the reward for tanks will stay there until it passes a threshold say 10, then it'll switch to healers) On my main in BEHEMOTH server, sometimes I switch back and forth between healer and tank in DF to compare que times.

Dungeon que times feel nearly identical to me. Maybe tank has a slight advantage in off hours but that may just may be me imagining things as they're usually instant-10 sec on either. I've had to wait 3 minutes on a dusk vigil que as a tank if I remember correctly, though that could have just been the DRK hype flooding the que a month or so ago.

The main scenario and trial roulette are the interesting ones. I sometimes see the bonus for healers and EVEN DPS (lol) but DF says the average wait time for healer is 10-12m when I que for healer, while queuing on my tank immediately afterwards it says under 5m. I shouldn't laugh at the dps in need though. Once at 12 AM the healer and tank spots were full and we waited about 40 minutes for just two DPS to join, that was annoying.

Guildhests were faster on my healers, I doubt anyone cares though.

In PF, I usually see the tank and healer spots filling at an equal pace, although it's usually the tank starting the group anyways. Not much really I can say about this because the party I see either need that one last healer or that one last tank.

I'm also not sure what you mean about influx on tank in other MMOs, this wasn't the case in WoW at least, the worlds most popular MMO. One thing that was very obvious for me was the difference between tank ques and healer ques in WoW. Tank was always instant no matter what. Healer was always at least a 2 minute wait, never had an instant que like I do in FF14. Dps was 10+ but they aren't nearly as bad in WoW as they are in FF. Dungeon dps ques in FF is equivalent to the raid que times for dps in wow lol, probably due to the higher number of dps allowed in dungeons and raids.

I went on a very strange side rant about que times but I believe I already answered your question. I've seen both looking for tank and healer occasionally on my server, it's too close to say which is better than which, I think tank is probably a little better but I don't have the statistics in front of me. The most recent FF survey say that an equal number of people have a tank/healer job at 31-60 but I have to admit it's rather vague so interpret it as you please

I thought DF and roulettes are cross servers, so no matter in which server you are, waiting time is always the same.

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Originally Posted by AriaEnia

I thought DF and roulettes are cross servers, so no matter in which server you are, waiting time is always the same.

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You are correct, but it's within your data center I believe, which is why I specified Primal for DF. Behemoth is in Primal, Gilgamesh is aether, Adamantoise is aether. Only things like PF and static recruitment is where the specific server matters

What Selli said lol. Gilgamesh is probably one of the least friendly servers :P so really surprised to hear that. Anyways, balmung is in desperate need of raid healers. There are pf up looking for them all the time. Especially SCHs.

Again, thank you all for your input!

As for WoW, I've never played it, so I can't compare. The games I have played (DDO, ArcheAge, Aion, ESO, and a few other smaller ones) were always in need of healers, so I guess that is where my baseline assumption is.

As for Gilga, I have transferred off of Gilga due to the replies on this thread and headed to Balmung for further RP and to begin working on leveling further as a healer to be more useful to the server and community. Now if I could just stop wood cutting....

Thanks again all, I do appreciate the feedback!

(coming from a main WHM)

A lot of the dilemma with healers is that, while there are a lot of people that can "just keep your HP up" and get you through the dungeons, they aren't actually the best healers in the world. We've a lot of really bad healers out there (like those who forget about DPS entirely when healing or do too much stance dancing).

The entire plight of the massive amount of healers is really because we're plagued by a lot of bad healers. Some of them are good, a lot of them are good -- don't get me wrong there! I've seen some healers that put me to shame with their awareness and MP management. But the problem is that people simply don't try to improve themselves, they just play the job.

I guess the same thing could be said about DPS and Tanks, though.


I don't mean to come off as overconfident or cocky, sorry if that's how it came out.

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Originally Posted by Aika_Nakamura

(coming from a main WHM)

A lot of the dilemma with healers is that, while there are a lot of people that can "just keep your HP up" and get you through the dungeons, they aren't actually the best healers in the world.

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I've kind of suspected this on account of the EX queue for healers not being particularly short. Getting through dungeons is one thing but I've heard of some friends statics having severe trouble finding healers that can handle Prey + Hypercompressed Plasma in savage.

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Originally Posted by Aika_Nakamura

A lot of the dilemma with healers is that, while there are a lot of people that can "just keep your HP up" and get you through the dungeons, they aren't actually the best healers in the world. We've a lot of really bad healers out there (like those who forget about DPS entirely when healing or do too much stance dancing).

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I'd say there's a lot of mediocre healers out there. They are passable for everything besides savage. The skill floor (not sure if that makes sense) of healers in this game is pretty low.

Healer is almost if not always the last spot to fill in PF on Lamia for EX, coil, and savage raiding. My 60 healer friend was going to take a break until 3.1 but after logging on Sunday he's being actively courted for five different raid statics.

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Originally Posted by ConstantineBelmonte

As for Gilga, I have transferred off of Gilga due to the replies on this thread and headed to Balmung for further RP and to begin working on leveling further as a healer to be more useful to the server and community. Now if I could just stop wood cutting....

Thanks again all, I do appreciate the feedback!

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If you are looking for a good FC, let me know. My FC is pretty awesome. We aren't RP specific, but we're definitely a well rounded FC that includes levelers, raiders, crafters, PvPers, etc.