Quote Originally Posted by Rawrz View Post
If you're keeping Apected Ben(Diurnal) up about 100% ( not prepull) and stacking aspected Helios before/during rough patches you should have plenty of time to DPS. Allot of being a healer is gauging how much damage a tank will take over the course of the next GCD.

If your healer gear is up to date and you are actively trying to DPS I think you're giving yourself too little credit. As your gear gets better the smoother it will feel on your healers.
I'm probably a little stingy with my AOE heals/shields.

Quote Originally Posted by TatoRazzino View Post
There's the problem, then: you like the DPS part, not the healing one.
Everything is just DPS with added functionality, really. Tanks are just DPS that take the focus off other DPS at the expense of their own DPS, so that others can DPS even more.

Quote Originally Posted by BeautifulNerf View Post
I'm not sure why you're stressing out during the 50's dungeons. Maybe disable in game music, install the Free Youtube downloader, download "FFXIV OST Snowcloak Theme ( The Warrens )" from youtube, play it on repeat in the background, then try running those dungeons again?
I have no idea, either. Healing seems to be a clusterfuck of everything I do as DPS plus several more things and more people, which is where the beginnings of a headache come in. That's why I think it's more about my approach or theory. There just has to be an easier way.

Quote Originally Posted by Rawrz View Post
Stance dancing is part of the wonderful allure of healing in ffxiv. The feeling you get when you have achieved placing your DoTs and managing to keep your tank alive, (Combination of your Healing/DPS out aggroing all the other party members lol) is hard to beat. You are Madonna on her best days. xD (The GiF Thread is starting to get to me xD)

Keep stance dancing. Push your limits. Carry those parties and stay sexy. : D <3
Exactly. Like going from just having a basic rotation to weaving in all my off-GCDs per pull (and not flying off any platforms). No idea what the healer equivalent for gauging my own performance is, other than less huddling in the corner of the FC house under a pile of Paissa dolls.