Healers doing damage

[PinnyAerani]

There are actually times as a WHM that I wish the team/the tank would take LESS damage so I could DPS more

[Lyzern]

Thanks a lot for your interest and support in the thread guys!

Some of you seem to think I don't know my way around dealing damage as a healer, might be some misunderstanding from my post, all I wanted was to prove my FC wrong , anyway, I'd just like to share my very typical rotation for any new healer who's interested in starting to deal damage inbetween heals:

Divine Seal, Regen, (Medica II if there's AoE damage), Cleric Stance, Aero II, Aero, Fluid Aura, Divine Presence, Stone II until Regen/Medica II run out or someone needs healing. Hope this helps any new healers ^^

Edit: And no, I won't leave my FC just because they don't agree with me lol, wtf is wrong with you guys

[VanilleFang]

Fluid Aura

How often do you use FA? Do you use it on trash that gets knocked back? That's not generally appreciated since if moves mobs out of AoE and away from the tank. I, personally, rarely use FA as it can cause issues. I use it as quick damage against things immune to knockback (slimes in ST for example).

Sorry if you already knew this and all. :P Just saw it in your rotation, that's why I am wondering,

[MXMoondoggie]

How often do you use FA?

I suppose that's actually a question for all WHM's to think about XD.

Kind of situational. Some mobs and bosses never get the knock back so you can use fluid aura in an attack rotation. You can also use it when they are next to a wall since they won;t go anywhere. Outside of that i treat it like benediction in that it's an emergency skill for moving a mob back to the Tank when it's not a good idea for them to drag stuff in my face. Though once you can use holy it just becomes a damage rotation skill because you can just stun lock anything that comes near you with holy. But yeah fluid aura doesn't follow the GCD and has no cast time so you can throw it out in between holy and stone II which can be great when you are in damage stuff mode.

[KisaiTenshi]

There are actually times as a WHM that I wish the team/the tank would take LESS damage so I could DPS more

This is main the point that determines if your healer has the opportunity to DPS or not. If you fire off stoneskin II, pay attention to which people lose SS first. It should only be the tanks. If you can get through the first set of trash mobs with all the DPS's still with SS on, then you can safely DPS, as they are making an effort to avoid damage.