Hopefully a positive healing thread!

In the Tank Forum; I asked what content they loved to tank.
In the DPS Forum: I asked what they loved about their favorite dps class.

Yes there are problems that need to be addressed across classes and roles and a lot of negativity, but I'm hoping a thread like this can help balance that out with some smiles and positive memories and comments

Here I'll ask you this: What do you like about the role of Healer?

I only recently came back to the game about 6 weeks ago after my girlfriend started the free trial and loved the look and theme to everything. I stopped mid-HW from player burnout and depression, but I loved tanking on PLD/DRK and loved to heal on SCH/AST almost as much. I enjoyed the change of pace that came with keeping people upright versus the aggro and positional management(where to park the boss for the ease of everyone else) of tanking.

I remember healing brayflox so many times I wanted to tear my hair out because it was coinflip on if the tank would pull the last boss out of it's puke or not even after being told the puddles regen'd the boss, but still feeling a rush when we'd pull it off.

I have healed a few times on an alt that had SCH unlocked, but my new main hasn't healed yet. My gf is waiting a bit before trying her newly unlocked DRK and I promised I'd heal for her tanking on runs on AST since we unlocked all three HW jobs together.

What do you like about the role of Healer?
Hmm... I'm having a much harder time with this question, maybe because it's much broader than your other two.

I like how healing is like playing a game of "reverse DPS" with the boss, and how (in my opinion) this has healers feel like they're interacting with the enemies more directly than any other role.

I like being able to "optimially" heal because I've always been in that mind that healing is a team effort with everyone pitching with mitigation. The prospect of healing itself never really stood out to me because frankly it's one-sided in this game. Being a support is what's more important to me. Doing more than just healing, which is why AST stood out to me, you feel like a support with the cards.

I like that we're not just healbots essentially.

As homogenized as the healers are atm, I still like the fantasy of the jobs. How SCH is the tactical military doctor, WHM a nature healer (debatable now), and AST being a fortune teller healer. Excited to see what Sage brings as well.

The thing that I like about healing is getting to be the one who supports my party in addition to doing my own contribution. I also really liked the Nature magic of whm and the time/gravity magic ast had. I liked how the job fantasies coincided with the lores so beautifully.

Its all gone now, and so I've quit healing until endwalker unless sage turns out to be another pure healer piece of crap.

I hate how we're barely registered as players who want to have fun, how our jobs are clones of each other, how the devs see no other way to make a new healer other than by cutting chunks out of the old ones, the endless lack of glamour beyond coats or robes, our concerns going unaddressed patch after patch, the devs refusing to listen to the ones who actually play the job since they don't and the plague of idiots refusing to learn that drag the rest of the healers down. I also hate how the devs are designing healers more for the dps players who want their parses than for the healers who play them and focusing on balance above fun

What do you like about the role of Healer?

Across ALL of my previous MMO experience, healer has always been my first choice before anything else. The idea of helping another player clicks so well & personally I almost always sucked with DPS and melee classes in those games ;) My general perspective of being a healer stays relatively the same over the year, except I do develop something else for being a healer: "The power to choose who will live and who will die!! Mwahahahaha!!"

Additionally, I like the esoteric nature of general healing classes and how it fits to my own perk: I like to observe another player. I agree in general we also watch how the other's doing to some extent, but imho healers pay more attention to their teammate more often than any other roles.

I'm excited for Sage :cool:

Scholar was a fun job for me because it really fit that tactician feel for me, I enjoyed how busy it was and how you have to keep an eye on various aspects of the battle all at once so that you can figure out the best way to approach the situation.

That being said, I think Scholar's lost that magic for me, not entirely because of the dps rotation, but because unlike older scholar you don't feel limited and don't have to consider how to best use your toolkit anymore.

I really hope that going forward they limit its healing potential while also making its current tools more powerful when used in the right situations, at least IMO.

Thank you for trying, however, the healer forum is a bit too infamously bitter for you to get the desired results.
That being said.

I love how Scholar feels like I always have a trick up my sleeve to react to a situation. You can argue semantics, but too me that makes me feel like a tactical genius, and while there are only a few buttons to press, Scholar still has the best looking buttons in my opinion. I'm a sucker for magical glyph effects and i love the little twirl your character does when they cast Biolysis.

Magic and support are usually my cup of tea on games. Rarely if maybe a bow type job. In the healer aspect of things, I always love to feel that am always needed by friends and family for things. buffing them up to reach their job full potential, treating their status or healing their wounds and many more. Ast covered this alot until sb with its now same boring cards. the ability to regen or shield it had it all best ast for me always be stormblood. It has very nice elegant yet tatical play that give the keep on top of your A game feel. I love a class that is very busy to manage ast did excellent in that. It spells also is so beautiful and astral statis is a awesome lb love it when am in angelic outfit making it seem am actually flying.

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Originally Posted by Brandedblade

Thank you for trying, however, the healer forum is a bit too infamously bitter for you to get the desired results.
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All the role forums seem to have a lot of bitterness right now, everyone wants their Jobs to be and feel better. We get that across all MMO's, but every now and then someone should try to hold up a light to remember the good of the game and class/roles for why we are here and want the game to be the best it could be.

I've always enjoyed playing the cleric/support type. In MMOs, single player games, and offline. Not because I like cure spamming (like the current iteration of healers tries so hard to encourage), but for a lot of reasons. I like having survivability. Keeping the team going. Rescuing a bad situation with a last second shield or pulling a disaster back from the brink. Being the soloing god that a lot of games allow healers to be when skilled/geared up well enough. Making use of my arsenal of abilities and determining exactly what's needed. Is the fighter going to die in the next ten seconds? Do I need to drop what I'm doing and fling a last second heal at him? Or will he also survive if I roast the ogre next to him this turn? Being able to multitask, to figure out what the best use of my time is in the moment, and to consistently need look ahead 10-15 seconds to plan out roughly what I need to do beyond just "X is where I'll be in my rotation". And yeah, that sweet dopamine rush when a game really gets this playstyle and puts a few Black Mage style mega blasts in there to reward someone who's really on top of their balancing act dance.

You know, not that healers in XIV are particularly designed like that now. But there was potential a few expansions ago, and I'm glad it was there.

I like to help people. This translates quite well into the healer role. I think that just about sums it up...

To heal as little as possible while keeping everyone alive and maximizing my DPS cooldowns and being able to adapt to the needs of a fight on the fly. ‘Pure healers’ excel in that reactive role but I find SCH to be far more engaging from a design and tuning standpoint barring some really bad numbers and QoL on a minority of their kit. I value the skill expression far more than my actual output and would rather see more trade offs and synergy between elements of the kit compared to what it has now. I’d prefer it if all healers had a higher focus on the DPS elements within their kits for the next expansion.

I realise I mainly come here to offer feedback in the way of criticisms and suggestions and I think there's a truth in that people tend to only speak up when they're not happy and well, I think the purpose of the thread is fair, because hey, none of my feedback of what I liked came out until they took what I felt was too much away.

So I'll cover what I do like.
I enjoy when I'm being pushed to heal, when I've got to think about how I am using pieces of my tool kit and how they work together. There are some fights or some situations where you might end up doing that.
I also like feeling as though I am helping, there is a satisfaction in pulling a party through content that might otherwise be challenging and feeling like your contribution is important.
I also like finding the balance between DPS and healing, I like that we have a combination of healing and DPS and that we have some responsibility to contribute as part of the overall DPS. It was something I used to love in FFXI playing SCH there, I'd be in a position where I could provide both as and when needed.
Carries as a healer can feel rewarding, although people rarely commend you or recognise you for it, except maybe people who know what their healers did. Whilst we healers bemoan suicidal groups there is a sense of pride in stopping said people killing themselves and pulling the group from the clutches of a wipe. I find most of my healer commendations come from mediocre play, because normally that's when things are going smoothly.
Helping people out in the sense say, you've got newbies or people less confident at tanking or doing content in general, keeping them and everybody alive whilst they get their feet can be nice too.
And I guess er, being a queue boost has its perks. Like see a friend struggling to get a queue and being able to almost instantly get them a pop. Tanks probably enjoy this too.
I sometimes enjoy playing AST specifically because I feel busy with the weaving of cards between DPS and healing, I like things like that. If I managing mechanics ontop of that, even better.

There are other things about healing I enjoy that used to be in this game, but in the spirit of this thread, I won't include them, because I will have complained about them elsewhere.

I like saving the party. Not just casting tons of over heal for minimal damage per se but hardcasting a rez or three when the party should have wiped and helping them limp along to a clear feels great. Being able to turn dire situations around is what I find most appealing as a healer. A clutch rescue, limit break, or a perfectly timed mitigation are what make me hype to heal.

For those moments where you're learning content, there's no RDM/SMN in the group, the other healer has DC'd, your Swiftcast is on CD, and the run is going to sh!t.

You then proceed to stabilize everything, solo heal everything, complete the trial and get zero comms.

#HealerLife

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

For those moments where you're learning content, there's no RDM/SMN in the group, the other healer has DC'd, your Swiftcast is on CD, and the run is going to sh!t.

You then proceed to stabilize everything, solo heal everything, complete the trial and get zero comms.

#HealerLife

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Why do I feel that one in my bones?

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Originally Posted by Saefinn

Why do I feel that one in my bones?

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Because when healing we've all probably had that 'save the party/run' moment and gotten no thanks/recognition afterwards. We're shaking in front of our keyboards with the adrenalin still coursing with a reward screen popup, feeling amazing, and then...silence

I remember back in Gordias, during A1S. We were approaching the part of the fight where the party takes a huge raidwide, both tanks get bustered, two other party members get a Prey marker (and need a Cure 2's worth of healing in the middle of the multi-hit or they'll die), and then another raidwide. And 5 seconds before this mini phase started, my cohealer disconnected. I somehow managed to whip out enough Benediction Swiftcast Cure 2 Tetra Medica 2 fury that the party survived. And then we died to the next phase because I was out of MP and almost had a heart attack, but I felt like a superhero for just a little bit.

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Originally Posted by Semirhage

I remember back in Gordias, during A1S. We were approaching the part of the fight where the party takes a huge raidwide, both tanks get bustered, two other party members get a Prey marker (and need a Cure 2's worth of healing in the middle of the multi-hit or they'll die), and then another raidwide. And 5 seconds before this mini phase started, my cohealer disconnected. I somehow managed to whip out enough Benediction Swiftcast Cure 2 Tetra Medica 2 fury that the party survived. And then we died to the next phase because I was out of MP and almost had a heart attack, but I felt like a superhero for just a little bit.

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Temperance (+20% healing) > Asylum (+10% healing) > POM > Thin Air, CURE 3 SPAM!!

You are a literal healing god for 10s

Hmm. Well, I’ve always liked playing healers in this game because I like balancing healing and damage-dealing. When I first started playing healers, we still had OG Cleric Stance. Since it swapped your MND and INT stat, it required some thought and proper juggling to ensure that you could both keep your party alive and deal a decent amount of damage. I kind of miss it, to be honest.

My favorite healer has always been AST. I enjoyed its hybrid nature, even if it was a burden on the job itself, and I loved the card system. Even the animations were attractive to me. Unfortunately, ShB really watered it down for me, and I didn’t touch the job for the longest time. But when I started playing it again, I found that I enjoyed its ShB healing kit enough to sort of look past how boring and bland the cards had become. I doubt anything will change with regards to them for 6.0, but I hope that AST keeps a lot of the healing kit is has now. Even with the removal of Nocturnal Sect, I think it could still keep some mitigative aspects in the form of current Diurnal CU, CI, and Neutral Sect.

Having control over the life and death of a party.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

Temperance (+20% healing) > Asylum (+10% healing) > POM > Thin Air, CURE 3 SPAM!!

You are a literal healing god for 10s

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Reminder that this combo was plausibly unavailable on account of 1. cure 3 being limited range 2. Divine seal (temperance before it was booted up 40 levels) would likely be on cooldown 3. POM absolutely would have been burned on dps and 4. Asylum would only cover maybe 3 players at the most on account of the adds, boss separation and the missiles dropping on everybody's head

As someone who played both whm and astro at this point, it was simultaniously a blast and a nightmare at the same time

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

Hmm. Well, I’ve always liked playing healers in this game because I like balancing healing and damage-dealing. When I first started playing healers, we still had OG Cleric Stance. Since it swapped your MND and INT stat, it required some thought and proper juggling to ensure that you could both keep your party alive and deal a decent amount of damage. I kind of miss it, to be honest.

My favorite healer has always been AST. I enjoyed its hybrid nature, even if it was a burden on the job itself, and I loved the card system. Even the animations were attractive to me. Unfortunately, ShB really watered it down for me, and I didn’t touch the job for the longest time. But when I started playing it again, I found that I enjoyed its ShB healing kit enough to sort of look past how boring and bland the cards had become. I doubt anything will change with regards to them for 6.0, but I hope that AST keeps a lot of the healing kit is has now. Even with the removal of Nocturnal Sect, I think it could still keep some mitigative aspects in the form of current Diurnal CU, CI, and Neutral Sect.

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Very much how I feel about AST too. Cards still break it up for me, but I am coming from a SCH background where my downtime is even more watered down so it's a step up.

But the healing toolkit is something I will praise and I think if Diurnal keeps what mitigation it has the loss of Nocturnal will be less painful because although they're shields, it's not enough to make AST a "shield healer".

SCH's healing can be enjoyable to use when it's pushed too as I have had my moments, but after learning Titan Savage on AST I swapped to SCH to see what it was like there and found it easier and less interesting and swapped back to AST for subsequent clears. I like juggling I guess.

I love SCH as my main healer. I don't care about Selene and Eos, I just bring whichever I feel. SCH has 'heal and forget' attitude, call me lazy but in between excogitation and all the fairy spells, instant AOE spells and fey union, I feel so OP. My Art of War is the highest instant AOE DPS in the game. My combo broil 3 and ruin 2 will kill the boss faster. It's a healer class that is designed to dps more than any other healer classes. Maybe sage, but I don't know yet.

I like that 9/10 times I can drag a group of bad players across the finish line, it’s possible with DPS and Tank roles, but not as often or effective as with the Healer role.

I'm your everyday below-average non-main-healer player, but from what I've seen, I enjoy AST and WHM much more than SCH. At least during the iffy phase of mid-40s (with harder hitting trash mobs) and pre-Excog 50s, I found SCH to be a major pain to play (during trash mob pulls). I will give SCH a fair shot with its 70-80 toolkit when my 3rd character goes through Shadowbringers with Trusts, though, as I love the fairy. AST has really nice spell animations and job gear, which was the main reason I picked it up on one of my characters. As a undredeemable clicker, staring at your skill bars to not forget your cards for too long is hectic, though xD. The biggest plus in healer life is arguably the instant-queues for whenever I need more poetics but not level another job or for leveling healers in general (while praying I don't get a dungeon with mechanics I am terrible at).

I enjoy frivolously gambling with the lives of others knowing full well they're never in any actual danger hahaha.

Seriously though, I think what I like best about the role is how obvious it is when other roles are underperforming. It feels like playing a healer is a great chance to get familiar with other jobs' kits on-the-go.

Hopefully this isn't a terrible necropost considering this thread is still on the front page. I only started playing the game a few months ago and it's my first MMO, so that probably changes my perspective, but I switched to healer (first I leveled WHM, now I play AST) from DRG and I'm really glad I did! Honestly, I'm not very good at games, so I actually enjoy the simplicity of healing. As DRG I would die a lot because I'm bad at managing a rotation, keeping track of enemy cast bars, and seeing what's going on around me in melee range. Getting to stand back, spam Malefic, and wait for incoming damage is a lot easier on me. I know for a fact I don't play optimally but I still find it satisfying when I get the timing of my star placements right, have a good opportunity to use Collective Unconscious, or preparing for an upcoming tankbuster or groupwide damage. At first as WHM, I was too scared of burdening my cohealer to practice anything with 8 people, but now trials are my favorite part of AST! I like having the two different sects, it makes it feel easier to work with others, no matter what the meta says. Also, as fun as I find playing the role, the people I play with make it all the better. I feel friendlier even just about saying hi at the beginning as healer, perhaps because I have more obvious responsibility to my party, and when I mess up and apologize, most people have been very kind, patient, and willing to give me advice so I'm truly thankful!

I'm not happy at all with SHB healing VS SB or HW due to their massive power. but to be positive, E12S p1 (week 1 ofc) and TEA p1/p2 seems like the best ShB content that is balanced for ShB healing. you actually exhaust your resources and get to play your full kit, plan, think a bit about mana etc. E1S/E9S had surprisingly decent damage as well. the turn 2's and 3's were kinda meh for me, and e8s i was so bored outside of adds phase personally. titan p2 was a piece of cake. and im still mad about long heal gaols in a savage turn :D

SHB really put a sour taste in my mouth about healing, especially the changes to AST and SCH, but I would have to say my favorite part of healing is being there to support my party in a more indirect way, keeping them alive and assisting with dps when I am able. It feels more flexible that always burning the mob down. Though, with SHB it feels like I've become a reverse DPS heal bot, so there's that.

Why do I play healer?

Because playing one in Final Fantasy 14 was actually enjoyable for me. Prior to 14 I walked azeroth, healing that was more chaotic than I would've liked admittedly.
14, well while people did teach me, offer tips I still came into my own and came to enjoy it. I love the chaos some battles can bring in a duty or trial and while hectic it's also one of the times I feel the most 'alive' being a healer.
Sorry for not having a paragraph worth of text but I still wanted to give my two gil.

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Originally Posted by SwordswornFox

In the Tank Forum; I asked what content they loved to tank.
In the DPS Forum: I asked what they loved about their favorite dps class.

Yes there are problems that need to be addressed across classes and roles and a lot of negativity, but I'm hoping a thread like this can help balance that out with some smiles and positive memories and comments

Here I'll ask you this: What do you like about the role of Healer?

I only recently came back to the game about 6 weeks ago after my girlfriend started the free trial and loved the look and theme to everything. I stopped mid-HW from player burnout and depression, but I loved tanking on PLD/DRK and loved to heal on SCH/AST almost as much. I enjoyed the change of pace that came with keeping people upright versus the aggro and positional management(where to park the boss for the ease of everyone else) of tanking.

I remember healing brayflox so many times I wanted to tear my hair out because it was coinflip on if the tank would pull the last boss out of it's puke or not even after being told the puddles regen'd the boss, but still feeling a rush when we'd pull it off.

I have healed a few times on an alt that had SCH unlocked, but my new main hasn't healed yet. My gf is waiting a bit before trying her newly unlocked DRK and I promised I'd heal for her tanking on runs on AST since we unlocked all three HW jobs together.

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Healer is the most crucial role in the party. U can carry runs anywhere with a healer. If ur playing like its designed, u know , to heal your party and not spamming glare while everything collupses around you