Healer PvP is garbage...

[Fukujin]

Sounds like your teammates lack of ability to help you is a problem, Also PVP gear = Not dying so fast
Attunement is you OH SHIT ability. Theirs a lot of things for healers.

Yall just need to stop, think a little, come up with a strat and execute. Level up gain abilitys and kick arce

[Kinseykinz]

So i never PvP'd as a healer before so I will totally understand if I was the noob. But some of my friends needed a healer and asked me to try since I do fine PvE.

Anyway, my question: Is my team supposed to be protecting me at all, or is it supposed to be 'every man for himself'
Because well...it felt like anytime i'd pop my head out to try to help repose the other team or cure one of my teammates, i'd be smoked...and if i just hid, well...then what is the point of me being there if I'm not healing?

At one point, I had every single member of the other team slept and my team still couldn't even take down 1 player on the other team before my sleep was just being resisted.

Between the interrupts, hide and pray no one remembers you're there, sprint while a dd chases you, trying to dodge tank stuns/blms sleeps etc..and knowing that everyone is gunning for me first...I really thought protecting the team healer would be paramount.

So should I just expect to have to 'heal when i can swiftcast +heal' etc and the rest of the time LoS/sprint Hide etc... or do teams protect healers and I was just not getting any love.

(Team was WHM/MRD/BLM/DD (dd was sometimes MNK/SMN or BRD)


But if all I'm supposed to do is run around like a wuss and wait to get creamed...then this is NOT fun for me at all.

[Zaft]

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Your team is supposed to support you. That's why they have crowd control abilities and supportive abilities. Things like Holmgang, Sleep, Lethargy, Shield Bash, Fluid Aura, etc, are all great at supporting your party members and should be used whenever wise.

Are you queueing solo in the Duty Finder, or is this your group of friends? Because if it is the latter, you might want to have a talk with them about teamwork.

[Kinseykinz]

Your team is supposed to support you. That's why they have crowd control abilities and supportive abilities. Things like Holmgang, Sleep, Lethargy, Shield Bash, Fluid Aura, etc, are all great at supporting your party members and should be used whenever wise.

Are you queueing solo in the Duty Finder, or is this your group of friends? Because if it is the latter, you might want to have a talk with them about teamwork.

It was with friends...but, since I was the rookie I just figured I was the one being dumb. But I tried everything I could to try to win...but it was just rough and soul-crushing as a healer in there.
I tried hiding first and then 'snipe reposing' with modest success, but then my team blm would need healed and be running away from me, and I'd have to chase after them trying to heal them before they died.

So I told them where I'd hide and 'run that way if you need me'

But then that NEXT round a Drg decided I should be his personal trampoline...no matter how much I sprinted I could not get away from him...ran to my tank thinking 'what i do in PvE, you can help me right' he kept wacking away on the other teams healer and I was left to go die in a corner...

Then we won a match

Then we had the 'holy crap guys I had everything slept and we still lost' match
Which I swear I didn't see our blm attacking... but my team couldn't burn down the other teams WHM in the time i kept my repose cycle on a DRG,WAR,SMN and the pet...like did it 2-3 times on each of the other team players before it was wearing too fast

Oh and even though I rarely DC, I dc'd once when we were doing well and that sucked :/

So...I don't know if I was making it hard on them by not being where I needed to be when I needed to be there or if they were just not good at being like 'You go here, only worry about us if ....' 'IF you are being made into lalasoup, come to me here....'

I was already on the fence about PvP...I don't suck at PvE. so...dunno.

[EveAlexandra]

It's really fun if you have a good team, I just run around casting regen as I go, if you get chased by 3 enemies, your team isn't doing a good job, if you get chased by 2 just regen and sprint when they catch up, most of the time they will give up or there'll only be one left.

When you only have one person chasing you thats when the fun starts, fluid aura to knock back and bind and normal cast repose, run around and swiftcast repose the other healer or blm.

[coffeeking]

support, all i do is run or die...bored

[Azell]

SE didnt test pvp at all as healer.
Cant cast anything if a wind breeze hit you.
AND THE FREAKING MORALE!! OMG it decrease dmg from players!! it increase dmg you do on players!!! but increase heals? NOOOOO fuck healers ;_;

[Kerikeron]

Sounds like your teammates lack of ability to help you is a problem, Also PVP gear = Not dying so fast
Attunement is you OH SHIT ability. Theirs a lot of things for healers.

Yall just need to stop, think a little, come up with a strat and execute. Level up gain abilitys and kick arce

Doesn't change anything in my eyes when normal skills/attacks interupt my skills. It's just faceroll buttons to win.

[Yahavage]

I had mad fun yesterday in pvp, but I was in a pre-made and we were using voice chat which I think helped immensly. I was playing sch and even managed a kill \o/

[Kaisersoke]

far from trash, spam sprint and run in circles until someone needs your swiftcast rez + benediction OP combo.

You're SOL if you're scholar though.

By far the easiest, most rewarding excuse for PvP healing ever