Why do you heal?

[HeroSamson]

If they made healer on the fly casting meaning, being able to cast spells without getting interrupted when you move, I would be more interested in the job.

I mean monsters can hit you and interrupted you but for once I would like to see a healer who can run and cast, with all the dodging you have to do I feel the casters get the short end of the stick.

meaning paladin needs heal on titan but has to dodge rock slide resulting in tank dying, seen it happen many of times, because the healer cant multi task very well.

[Sprinks]

Somebody has got to keep the guys I play with alive... Seriously, they are suicidal. Plus, I am a SUPER control freak, but if you let me tank, y'all gonna die REAL fast.

[fanservice]

If they made healer on the fly casting meaning, being able to cast spells without getting interrupted when you move, I would be more interested in the job.

I mean monsters can hit you and interrupted you but for once I would like to see a healer who can run and cast

You... kinda described SCH.

You also explained why I'd rather not be a WHM.

Also, healing feels like the least repeatative thing to do in FFXIV after playing WoW for so long. There was always a rotation or a priority system with tanking and dpsing. I've learned to like making judgement calls depending on the situation with healing.

edit: well, i'm far from the first person to say that in this thread...

[Velox]

The "nice guy" response: I love helping people

The evil maniac response: There is nothing more satisfying than knowing you are holding the lives of everyone in your hands. You are the master of life and death, and can choose whom amongst the party members is worthy of your divine intervention. Not only can you spare lives, but you can also become a force of destruction (via Cleric Stance). In a sense, you are a god! Bow down filthy mortals or suffer my wrath! >

[Dijana]

I don't like rotations, but the bigger reason (and this will sound rather narcissistic) is that I don't trust others to keep me/everyone alive. I usually like to play hybrids that are self sufficient, but we dont really have that kind of gameplay in XI, so the next best thing is being the healer.

TBH though I was planning to main smn, but somewhere along the way to 50 I realised I was focusing on and enjoying SCH far more and just stuck with it.

[peaches]

I've always enjoyed healing, but even more so in this game.

I have a tank, but I'm not enough of a leader to tank usually, especially in things I'm not familiar with. Not to mention tanking in general is fairly boring. 90% of the boss fights the tank just sits there whacking at the boss usually with no other job. Maybe an add now and then. Usually all the exciting stuff goes to the DPS. "Okay it's burn time, tank ignore the adds DPS kill em quickly!" "Oh Ifrit has nails you need to kill, the tank just has to stand there hitting Ifrit" (and the same thing for Titan). I made a tank literally JUST for Garuda Ex when it first came out because my friend was a tank and he could never find a second tank for our group who could do the fight properly.

I don't DPS because while they do control most of the fights, they have no direct control over the party. If you're stuck with bad healers there's nothing you can do, and healers are more rare than DPS to try to replace one or both. DPS are a dime a dozen.

When you heal, it's always interesting. Either there's constant healing going on, saving the party from wipes single-handedly sometimes, or even if the healing is slow you have a chance to help DPS a bit. It's just fun. That being said I DID just level a BLM to 50. Dat Flare is niiiiice

[Aldora]

I've been a support player in most of the MMO's i've been playing. I like to keep my team healthy through cure and use Enhancements to help the team defeating their targets with ease (by maintaining buffs and casting debuffs on the targets). I feel good when we defeat our targets, where no one died, have everyone healed up, buffed up and ready to tackle our next targets. (^_^ )

[Khalette]

If they made healer on the fly casting meaning, being able to cast spells without getting interrupted when you move, I would be more interested in the job.

See and that's one reason I really really enjoy healers in this game.

Playing melee with instant-casts and a 2.5 second cooldown annoys me to no-end. Casting makes the GCD not seem so horrific.

[TheRogueX]

If they made healer on the fly casting meaning, being able to cast spells without getting interrupted when you move, I would be more interested in the job.

I think this would be great, even if it was just a small emergency heal, or a quick HoT (sorta like how you can move and cast Aero since it's a instant-cast spell). Just something so that they could heal on the run while repositioning.

[Lumidus]

I don't like rotations, but the bigger reason (and this will sound rather narcissistic) is that I don't trust others to keep me/everyone alive. I usually like to play hybrids that are self sufficient, but we dont really have that kind of gameplay in XI, so the next best thing is being the healer.

TBH though I was planning to main smn, but somewhere along the way to 50 I realised I was focusing on and enjoying SCH far more and just stuck with it.

Same as my reason, I don't trust other healers. When the game first came out, I was a tank and I died too many time in in those lv15 dungeons then to Ifrit story. After I unlocked SCH, healing became more fun