Protect? Really important? Low level content

[Lunaxia]

Perhaps they seem that way to people who don't know any better, sure.

What's really amateurish is a healer who acts like a chocobo that's been put on Healer Stance, telling themselves, "I'm a healer, so I just heal!" and spending half of every instance run doing nothing. :|

It's a universal attitude. "Oh, it's okay, I know what I'm doing" is often a warning flag itself, since so many bad healers (or in fact bad anything) say something similar. Don't expect to be given the benefit of the doubt that you're the exception to the rule.

I'd rather be with a lazy healer than one who doesn't seem to be aware what their job is.

[Bovinity]

It's a universal attitude. "Oh, it's okay, I know what I'm doing" is often a warning flag itself, since so many bad healers (or in fact bad anything) say something similar. Don't expect to be given the benefit of the doubt that you're the exception to the rule.

I'd rather be with a lazy healer than one who doesn't seem to be aware what their job is.

So basically anyone who is confident in their role throws up a warning flag to you?

It's nonsensical and sounds like you're just eager to find fault, which isn't a very nice trait.

[ArcheDragon]

So basically anyone who is confident in their role throws up a warning flag to you?

It's nonsensical and sounds like you're just eager to find fault, which isn't a very nice trait.

Yeah, that was a bit ridiculous.

@Lunaxia I suppose that I must, from now on, start all conversations with "I'm bad at healing " or else somebody might think I'm ACTUALLY bad at healing before they've even observed what I can do. That is absurd and the idea that you said that says a lot more about how your mentality in a debate than your opinion or understanding of the subject matter. To be frank, your idea of what a healer is is woefully misconceived and shows a shallow understanding of the role. My job is never to give other people "peace of mind". Have you done hard content... at all? There isn't peace of mind but that doesn't mean that I've failed as a healer. My SOLE job as a healer is to make sure other people do not die, and if they do die, get them back up. A lot of people in this forum don't seem to understand that healing spells are only one part of our healer repertoire. My dealing damage ends fights sooner (btw, that damage is DEFINITELY not nothing. In these low level dungeons I have, on many occasions, put out the highest dps.). The sooner a fight ends, the sooner people stop taking damage. If people aren't taking damage, I don't need to cast a healing spell.

[Bovinity]

To be frank, your idea of what a healer is is woefully misconceived and shows a shallow understanding of the role.

Well, this has been my issue with the topic from the start. You have people basically saying, "You need to do it my way or you're bad, regardless of effectiveness or the end result, and even when it doesn't matter." and usually all because of some preconceived notion of what "healers should do".

[ArcheDragon]

Well, this has been my issue with the topic from the start. You have people basically saying, "You need to do it my way or you're bad, regardless of effectiveness or the end result, and even when it doesn't matter." and usually all because of some preconceived notion of what "healers should do".

It's all about being lazy. Why innovate, think outside of the box, or consider all of your options when you will be accepted by most groups for doing as little as you can possibly get away with? They are the same people who use "FFXIV isn't [insert MMO here]" when somebody asks for a quality of life change (or any change) and uses another MMO as an example, but they will blindly accept what other MMOs taught them about what the word "healer" means.

The arguments against healers dpsing have focused solely on the fact that "healer" and "dps" are not the same words. That is a kindergarten level understanding of a role that should embarrass anybody who uses it.