Healers doing damage

[KisaiTenshi]

I started off maining summoner and using Scholar for dungeons for the queues and I noticed something different in this game: I had freedom to do damage. And I liked it!

If you play conjurer/white-mage/scholar you should be prioritizing healing. I switched to playing Healer because all the PUG groups I play with seem to have healer classes that don't know what they're doing and erroneously believe they should be contributing damage when it's unnecessary or even detrimental.

Go to one of the DPS checking "scarecrow" npc's and test the damage you put out with and without Cleric stance. New healers don't seem to know what they are doing. If you do not switch to Cleric stance before firing off something for damage, you're wasting your mana, and everyones time. If you're firing off something for effect (DoT's), then it doesn't matter.

Your FC isn't wrong, but you have to read the situation.

[technole]

If you play conjurer/white-mage/scholar you should be prioritizing healing. I switched to playing Healer because all the PUG groups I play with seem to have healer classes that don't know what they're doing and erroneously believe they should be contributing damage when it's unnecessary or even detrimental.

I had a WHM in Odin trial before that just kept healing during his enrage while gungirs were still up, trying to top-off everyone. What they should have done was fire off Divine Seal with Medica 2 and then cleric stance DPS so we didn't have to wipe at 1%. His enrage was going to hit well before anyone would be close to death. Yet they kept healing in the inappropriate manner, and that was detrimental to the success.

Prioritizing smart healing strategy is the better way to put it.