What is happening to healing in pvp?

[Tarta]

Back in the days of WD, i remember healers had to be the sponge of limit breaks day in and day out lol.
Because everyone knew how op sprint and swiftcast heal was.
Dead healer = win right?
So the attunement right before limit breaks always made ur butt cheeks clench as you know u either dodged it or it was too late lol.
We are lé tanks, we soak damage and r expected to keep ppl alive. xD

We r le tank.
Issue is we r expected to keep people alive also. <--shouldn't be our main role in people's minds anymore. Should be our off-time role.

Oh noes! I am being focused! EQUANIMITY HURDUR *stunned* *dps'ed* (Maybe I can break this stun with...no wait already at 20% health) *dead* "WTF heals?!" *sighs, respawn*

[DenariusJay]

We r le tank.
Issue is we r expected to keep people alive also. <--shouldn't be our main role in people's minds anymore. Should be our off-time role.

Yes this is true. I main SCH in PvP and basically I came to realization that my role isn't really to heal others, I mean if I can afford it I will, but your role as a healer is to be the punching bag and hope healer #2 can swing some love your way, and visa versa. That's why 2 healers is really desired, you have a "I scratch your back you scratch mine" type of relationship.

If you solo heal, the best you can do (IMO atleast) is train enemy dps / tanks away from the flag and place EOS by the flag, and hope his dinky heals can keep some of your team alive, meanwhile you got the ninja/war/pld/mnk wombo comboing your ass till attunement>death. All you can do is buy time through your cooldowns (equanimity, surecast, swiftcast, aetherstacks) and attract agro and hope it goes well.