Tank and heal shortage

[Ramira]

I see more Summoner healers in CT then I do White Mage's.

We are a dying breed, blarg.

[XanderOlivieri]

I see more Summoner healers in CT then I do White Mage's.

We are a dying breed, blarg.

Galvanize and Stoneskin really hurt White Mages in terms of defenses. Though to be fair, healing output on WHT compared to SCH is just so much better in bursts. I always have to focus Aldoquiem on Tank to catch up with the healing, then drop either Shadow Flare if I have time or Eye for an Eye to lower the damage coming in. I've gotten yelled at so many times for using Sacred Soil to try and lessen damage....yet I saw it drop at least 14 times in CT last night.

Why must people have different preferences TTwTT


I main Summoner. Its incredibly easy to play once you know your DoT rotations and learn to keep them active without burning up your MP too much. I side Scholar for personal use and smaller group use and usually I have a hard time healing. I was just barely able to keep a tank alive my first run through Wanderer's Palace. Managed to pull through without a single wipe on my first run which made me happy. Depending on dungeon I don't feel as if I have enough healing output so Healer is definitely harder for me to play, but I enjoy it. Tank on the other hand for me is inbetween healer and DPS. I see the roles as:

Tank pulls and is the center focus for the enemy. He has a lot of priority, but even if he fails at it, it should be ok cause a quick instant raise should get him back on his feet.

DPS are the expendable limbs to the group. Its ok when one falls as there is another to pull slack until the other is brought back up. If both go down, then a bit of priority needs to be put on raising at least one of the two.

Healer is the soul of the team. If the healer dies, its a wipe in a 4 person group. If you don't have a Summoner or a Phoenix Down and not way to raise the healer, you guys are dead.


A good team will cover adequately when another falls. Tank falls, the thicker DPS tries to gain hate off healer to revive the Tank. DPS falls, healer should try to get the DPS back up less both die and get screwed. The DPS should always be defending the healer. That should be a priority. Kill the things targeting the healer as fast as possible.

As for toxic members, I've seen extreme hate from everyone. Wiped at least 8 times in Amdapor Keep. Had 1 new player who was the healer. Didn't know about the ball that kills you if you drop it in the wrong place. He had the ball drop on him 6 times. The other two times the ball dropped on the Bard who was mid combo attacking the boss. First tank (Wipes 1-5) was patient but didn't explain anything until later (after wipe 2). Second tank was very aggressive. He really didn't like the healer and the chat box was very colorful with his ???????'d sentences because of the profanity filter. The Bard and Tank both leave while we have less than 15 mins left and another group comes in. I said we wiped 8 times already and one leaves the other calls in an FC member.

We beat the boss with like 2 mins left, all my gear was Condition 0 so my damage was like nil, thank god the other DPS was a dragoon. Healer made mistakes, but even I think the way the tank complained was a bit overboard. It was his first time...even if he did have ilvl 60 gear. Course, guess that just means Gear isn't everything in this game.

[Kinseykinz]

I see more Summoner healers in CT then I do White Mage's.

We are a dying breed, blarg.

I only end up 'healing' on SMN in CT because the 6 healers actually in the instance for some strange reason aren't healing the tanks/players etc (even when people aren't being dumb and all spread over hill and dale). I don't run CT as my WHM (my main) mostly because I am trying to get better at SMN/like to be able to turn 'troll chat' off (alliance chat). When I DO heal though, I Also end up healing typically 4/6 tanks in the alliance...AND my party...solo. So basically, SMN's tend to be forced to heal/res in CT because the actual healers are NOT healing...they are AFK (lots of the time) or in CS...or Holy Spamming...or not healing the pots...or just plan old new to the dungeon and don't know what to do/who to watch.