Level a healer or wait for astrologist?

[TruebladeNuke]

It's a slightly nitpicky point, but I'd suggest that all healers be trained to think in terms of being "preventative" or proactive. Too many WHMs seem to think that reactive means literally waiting for HP to plummet before starting to do anything, and it makes them slow and scary healers. Also contributes to this common mindset of "omg I can't DPS, because someone's gonna die!" :P

According to one of my FC members yesterday, he sadly got paired with a WHM who was like that. Insisted on Cleric Stance Holy over keeping the Tank alive (him), even though there was enough AoE death pouring in from the 2 BLM's. The role of a Healer is keeping everyone healthy first. DPS only if there's a wide enough opening to get some Holy in. (A Divine Seal Regen on the Tank is a good way to give yourself an opening, assuming there aren't too many enemies pummeling the Tank. But that's just me and my opinion)

I haven't gotten all the details from him yet, but that's what it sounded like he went through. And for me personally, I just can't help but think that the only type of role anyone cares about in the game is DPS based on what he told me there.