Low level Healing is Boring

[Kalias85]

I've been playing CNJ through the low level dungeons and have found myself painfully bored with the lack of diverse spells available to a low level healer. I'm aware these are brief problems as leveling is only a small portion of the game but it is a portal to introducing new players into the game. If this was my only experience with the game I wouldnt touch healing.

Is there anyone else out there who can sympathize? I've healed in many games and I feel the progression rate for healing in this game, having to wait until 30 for anything interesting and even further than that for SCH is unacceptable.

Would it be so much of a change to introduce some of those higher level spells earlier in the game?

Please don't flame with the suggestions that "L2DPS". DPS isnt the role myself and my fellow healers are signing up for in these dungeons.

I am hoping to see new life in low level heal progression through the Astrologian but only time will tell.

[radioactive_lego]

If you have cross-class abilities, use them. I get a lot of kicks out of Blizzard2 and Bio.

[Parawill]

It's boring because you're doing low level dungeons. You're more experienced and out-gear the instance, which makes it way easier to do things. If you want a challenge in your i110 gear and whatnots (I didn't check your gear; I am just assuming), then turn on Cleric Stance and heal like you were when you were level x (where x equals the equivalent required level to enter the instance). Plus aren't all low level things boring? Starting a new game in anything is always really boring for me unless the lore interests me. Final Fantasy Tactics was hella boring at the start, but the flashy skills that one NPC did kept me in. Same with Pokemon.

As for Astrologians, I'm speculating that they may have some sort of a combo system or a skill that's primed with a card. Since we do have a fair amount of deities in this game, I believe they will be very interesting. Especially when you take a look at what Ninja has brought in as a class. It's super exciting

[Sleigh]

Please don't flame with the suggestions that "L2DPS". DPS isnt the role myself and my fellow healers are signing up for in these dungeons.

This is your answer, even if it is to your dismay. It makes healing in general much more bearable in dungeons if you DPS as much as you comfortably can, not only because it's more exciting and stimulating but because you get EXP/cleared much faster.

The boring, slower alternative is standing around waiting for ... nothing to happen, while mindlessly pressing one button and overhealing your tank when you do heal. Basic healing is super OP in low level dungeons, your Cure 1 will be 30%+ while tanks don't take 30% for 5-10s depending on CDs.

[ZhycranaDranix]

Low level anything is boring

Tanking - Hit-Hit-CD (pretty much on repeat)
DPS- Till you get to about 30 you'll pretty much be doing the same rotation on repeat you've been doing since you acquired your main rotation
Healing- I mean what more do you want, healing anything sub Job is boring tbh, as a avid healer for both classes I can honestly say even SCH till about 46 is boring lol like healing anything sub lvl 50 is boring imo

[Donjo]

You can always cross class provoke and screw with the Tank. That'll keep things exciting!

ps. Don't actually do that!

[Rhais]

Low level anything is boring

I would have to agree with this, it's not any better for tanks or dps.

[RxRai]

Agreed it is very boring. I usually just watch a video or something while doing so.

[Cynfael]

As others said, low-level play just doesn't involve a ton of options.

Also, yes, do learn to DPS as a healer. You share the party's responsibility to kill things in order to clear the content. Obviously healing is the priority of the healer role, but DPS is the expectation during healing downtime.

[Garlyle]

This is your answer, even if it is to your dismay. It makes healing in general much more bearable in dungeons if you DPS as much as you comfortably can, not only because it's more exciting and stimulating but because you get EXP/cleared much faster.

Yup. Not gonna lie, if you're actually trying to optimize both healing and DPS, it is easily the most involved and interesting role to play in low-level dungeons, considering all other classes are basically going "1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2" until things are dead. By the time other classes have more interesting tools, you'll actually be healing.