Fed up of the need of Healers!

[Shuon]

you have a lot of options:

1. find a LS/FC and ask for help. this game made is easy to help people, and they will
2. ask people personally
3. shout for help
4. just wait
5. level a healer urself

the lack of healer is just a matter of probability. pre-30, only 1 out of 8 classes can heal. post 30, only 2 out of 9 jobs can heal. of course there are lesser of them, ot to mention dps classes look 'cooler', and attract more players.

this is not the problem of the game, this is the design, and it working as intended. it is part of the community's interaction. if you cant tolerate the wait (which is prevalent in all mmo games) then you have to stick to single player games

[Shyluv]

Yes. I nearly quit being healer, myself. During Garuda, a bard was standing next to a rock the entire time. Kept moving out of my line of sight, so I would have to chase them down, cure 2, cure 2 the tank twice, cure 2 the dragoon. Regen everyone. Then the bard would move again after taking more damage.

And I was blamed. "Newb whm. How did you get to this level? You suck. Everyone went without cures for 8 whole seconds. Learn to play. F*****g newb."

Did it the next day after a FC mate told me to not give up. We wiped a few times, most of which was cause someone went out of my line of sight. But eventually we got it.

[Volias]

I can understand the hesitation some people have regarding Tanking and Healing roles. I have been a healer over the course of many mmo's to the point that I just love the mechanic of it. I really wanted to play PLD in FFXIV to mix things up, but I got too worried about being a liability to my party due to my limited tanking experience. That caused me to revert back to what I know, healing, so I went WHM.

Tanking is a leadership role in many aspects and I think Tanks get threat generated from both npc and players alike faster than the healer does. I constantly see chats with people trashing bad tanks, I have rarely seen the same rants on the healers of this game.

I still plan to pursue PLD at some point down the road and deal with the growing pains I'll more than likely have lol

[raelgun]

heres a suggestion, im maining a BLM, though ive never dpsed once in an instance, only healed on my conj, granted im lvl 34 on my blm and 28 on my conj, its made my life a joy being able to switch out like that, yes i prefar to dps, but i can do that when im 50 for blm and wtm, why cant you?, dont get me wrong, i dont find healing fun, but im being efficient about it

[16bitBounty]

I can understand the hesitation some people have regarding Tanking and Healing roles. I have been a healer over the course of many mmo's to the point that I just love the mechanic of it. I really wanted to play PLD in FFXIV to mix things up, but I got too worried about being a liability to my party due to my limited tanking experience. That caused me to revert back to what I know, healing, so I went WHM.

Tanking is a leadership role in many aspects and I think Tanks get threat generated from both npc and players alike faster than the healer does. I constantly see chats with people trashing bad tanks, I have rarely seen the same rants on the healers of this game.

I still plan to pursue PLD at some point down the road and deal with the growing pains I'll more than likely have lol

That's because there is just an abundance of awful tanks in the game. Personally I love healing, problem is people enjoy seeing big numbers instead of being useful.

[ruskie]

Why did you need to chase them? You can quickly select them from the party list.

[Serrated_Viper]

Welcome to MMORPGs, mate. The dire need for heals/tanks is commonplace in most due to the ungrateful job it is. You're either praised when things go well, or blamed when things go south.

Yeah this is my first MMO, I picked a Dragoon just because the Armour is amazing! I think I will develop as a Healer once i Master Dragoon. Just so it adds one more Healer to the servers.

[Shyluv]

Why did you need to chase them? You can quickly select them from the party list.

No line of sight. Need to be spread out, but not spread out hiding behind the rocks that are furthest away from me, that will also later provide protection for everyone.

[ruskie]

Good to know. I'll keep that in mind as an ARC myself.

[Tiedemann]

I saw ppl asking for healers all the time so I started one and find it kinda fun. I can see why pple have issues with it cause you get a lot of crappy comments if things don't work out.

I'm just concentrating on the tank, and hopefully he does his job. Sometimes I need to heal others but not a lot so far. Aggro management seems to be an issue sometimes but not sure if it's the tank, lag or whatever.
Some archers for examples loves to pull mobs before the tank even comes close and stuff like that makes me mad. If they don't listen when I tell them to stop I just let them die a few times so I get their attention.

A lot of issues can be solved by just communicating and trying to help each other out but in this game (like many others these days) a lot of ppl don't communicate at all, you just kinda have to hope they're actually reading the chat.

A ready check feature would be nice (or do we have one?).