LOS Healing <For Instant Spells/Actions>

[Skies]

This option should be unchecked for any player. It's purely aesthetic and will only make it difficult to navigate encounters while using instant actions.

Actually wrong but irrelevant for the healer role. Damaging and offensive spells require line of sight and that you face the target during the entire casting (so if you're charging, say, Stone II and the monster walks behind you you lose the spell).. Healing and support spells, however, do not require LoS.

[XxxVoidxxX]

I havnt checked this block since i am at work, but i cannot wait to uncheck this. I to am so frustrated with facing and running back into the red spot of death.
thank you again who ever figured this out.

[XxxVoidxxX]

Actually wrong but irrelevant for the healer role. Damaging and offensive spells require line of sight and that you face the target during the entire casting (so if you're charging, say, Stone II and the monster walks behind you you lose the spell).. Healing and support spells, however, do not require LoS.

So Question then. If i turn this off for my scholar will i need to turn it back on when i switch back to Summoner? I can only assume so.

[Skies]

So Question then. If i turn this off for my scholar will i need to turn it back on when i switch back to Summoner? I can only assume so.

I presume so, I don't have much experience with that in particular. Given half of the Scholar spells are also offensive in nature from his Arcanist base, those would also be problematic to use with weird facing.

[Stickyboots]

You could always just strafe instead of turning around, you move the same speed but don't face away from your target while you do it.

[Matrioshki]

Actually wrong but irrelevant for the healer role. Damaging and offensive spells require line of sight and that you face the target during the entire casting (so if you're charging, say, Stone II and the monster walks behind you you lose the spell).. Healing and support spells, however, do not require LoS.

As this is a "Healing Roles" forum it is purely aethestic for us while we are healing...

But you are absolutely correct, offensive spells both Instant and Cast require you to face the mob. I noticed once I went back to some fate grinding. I would still advise against having this option enabled in serious encounters. DPS will naturally face the mob they are attacking, and still will need to avoid raid mechanics like a healer (all be it they may not notice this as much as a healer will)

[Skies]

Hrm, I personally like to leave it on so I don't need to worry about turning towards my targets and I play on legacy camera mode, which means that I pretty much play with my right mouse button taped down, so my movement is always relative to my camera.
But that goes to playstyle and input preference, different people have more easy with different inputs, this is the easiest for me, can't handle not being able to run towards the camera.

[Bridgeburner]

So Question then. If i turn this off for my scholar will i need to turn it back on when i switch back to Summoner? I can only assume so.

I believe you could macro your offensive Summoner spells such that you include /facetarget (or /ft) one line prior to /ac "Spell Name" <t>. That should allow you to leave the setting off, as far as the console is concerned, while having spells that behave the way they need to.

[Goom]

While having this option checked off makes healing far less stessful, it is still easy to use damaging abilities with it off. Your casting 'cone' is about 45 degrees, so if you turn your camera with the target you'll land your spells no problem. However, if you need to turn very quickly (ie. the mob is running right next to you) you will want to overshoot the camera a bit, as latency will make the game think you are looking further back than you are.

[Aedra]

You can heal / buff your party without facing them. It's been like this since FFXI.