Quote Originally Posted by LiadansWhisper View Post
Curious. Is this your first MMO as a healer or have you done this before? Did you have other classes to 50 before you leveled a healer class?
While I do have my fair share of experience in MMOs which helps me pick up stuff faster than most people I really don't think it should take people more than a few runs to figure out WP/AK. Those dungeons are so horribly straightforward the only way not to pick up what to do is by paying more attention to your **** than FF. Especially in the DF where you generally aren't speedrunning there's simply a limit to how much damage your tank can receive, unless he makes sure to get hit by every AoE there is, so unless he's severly undergeared there's a massive amount of downtime as a healer.

I'm not expecting a firsttimer to go in there, stancedance around and nuke everything, but even as firsttimer you should realise that if you're standing around scratching your butt because your tank has near full HP that tossing out a few DoTs and perhaps a Stone II might just move things along even that little bit faster. Considering that even as Whm, where mana can be a problem, you already ran multiple instances with Shroud and even improved Shroud by that time you should start realising that, unless you're perma spamming Cure II/Medica (Admittedly some Whms do this *sigh*), mana really shouldn't be the issue it was in the early dungeons anymore.

Basically by the time you hit 50 and start running the dungeons everyone does over and over and you generally want to be done with as soon as possible you should have enough experience as a Healer (assuming it was your first class) that at least healing is already something you do automatic and it doesn't require all your attention just to keep a party alive through something like WP/AK. At that point there are two things you can do. Scratch your butt because there's no healing to be done or start looking for ways to help the party in other ways than healing, which with the tools we got so far leaves you with nothing but DDing. Now you can tell me that you don't like DDing, but last time I checked scratching your butt while staring at a bunch of HP bars that don't move in a dungeon you've already done far too often wasn't all that interesting either.