Tips for new (and some not-so-new) healers

[ariaandkia]

Just to give an idea of why DPSing could be bad for a healer.

First issue: 2.4~2.5 second CD. (I'm sure you could get lower, but you get the idea)

How many enemies could murder your party in 2.4 seconds? I know of quite a few. Even trash mobs if you are doing speed runs can murder your entire party in the time it takes for your CD to end (for instant DPS such as Aero or Bio).

Second issue: Aggro control
Sometimes, that little bit of DPS can throw you into the aggro zone. Especially for scholars who tend to be able to stack massive amounts of DPS.

And depending on your party, having even 10 of the 20+ mobs move away from the AoE zone could result in a party wipe. And with that many enemies, walking into the middle of the mob group would be suicide no matter how good you are.

God yes I hate it when tanks don't inform me of their plans -.- learned this the hard way and now I'm always tense when healing SR prone dungeons because any kind of pulls could happen at any point of time.

as for the party sort there is a button in the party screen or you can use /psort

Yeah, but sometimes I want specific players in specific slots. Though I see how you can do it through the party menu, I wish there was a faster way. At least psort gets them into the general right location though.