If you are a WHM without Swiftcast, you are holding back your team at endgame

[Jyoeru]

Hello.

As a main WHM who has downed a lot of content, I formally declare that you do not need swiftcast to be good. You're not hurting your team by not having it. But, you should get it at some point to (a) shut the elitists up, and (b) to have it for its benefits for those times you can benefit from it.

If your party is failing to move on in something, it has absolutely nothing to do with you not having swiftcast. There are no game mechanics for which this is a required skill. In fact, chances are if you have to use it, it's because someone (or several someones) in your party messed up. If everyone learned to perform the main function of their classes well, and if everyone avoids unnecessary damage, then the party wins.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If people are dying in your party, it's because you aren't healing well enough, or they are doing something terribly wrong.

If you DO have swiftcast, then good for you. If you don't, just plan to get it at some point. But swiftcast doesn't make you a good healer like a +1 doesn't make anyone a good player.

Arguments about food and extra buffs and min/maxed gear are null because this game is not balanced around people having the best of everything. I was doing a Garuda yesterday and MT was saying we were failing because people didn't have food buffs. Meh. It's just a WOW elitism (perhaps any MMO) in which people feel insecure about their own abilities to play a game without every possible buff and strategy made for them. That's not playing a game. That's emulating someone else's success, and making the game as easy as possible so you can pass the content without having to answer to its mechanics.

Until we have mechanics like a guaranteed kill mechanic in a fight, swiftcast is just not as great as people like to make it out to be. Use it at the "wrong" time, and there is no benefit. Add to this argument how you have to babysit a carcass, and rezzing in any battle is more of a detriment than it is a benefit.

The End.