Never thought I would see dps queues faster then healer.

[Gallus]

Healing optimally (far from just spamming cures/physicks + medicas/succors), as you've well said, means dpsing too. Do you think however, you can DPS whenever you want? Nope, you must know the boss like the palm of your hand, you must know every single safe downtime where the boss autoattacks or does nothing dangerous that could potentially kill your party. For instance, in order to be optimal as a healer in T13, you must 100% know that in P1 after megaflare, bahamut does flatten, after flatten, bahamut does triple flare breath, and after that, there's a 7-9 second downtime where you can go to cleric fast and add in 3-4 dots and shadow flare before it starts channeling earthshaker. Do you honestly think you have to know all this bs as a DPS? No you don't. You can even ignore half of its mechanics as a DPS while you keep mashing your already automated rotations.


Flatten? Akh Morn? Gigaflare? You don't even need to know what the hell they do or when they come. Megaflare + Rage of Bahamut? (exactly the same as a normal mega for a DPS), Megaflare + Tempest Wing (exactly the same as a normal mega for a DPS), Earthshaker + Tempest Wing + Flare Breath? (exactly the same as a normal earthshaker for a DPS).