Why do healers do so little damage in PvP? Also can SCH get a bit more for defense?

[Ama_Hamada]

Just now it was me and a ninja on ice and I was doing 70 damage to it
healers do not do enough damage, that is way too low.

[Yukumazi]

Just now it was me and a ninja on ice and I was doing 70 damage to it
healers do not do enough damage, that is way too low.

You. Are. A. Healer

[NorthernLadMSP]

All the crying and whining got our Cleric Stance taken away.

[Ama_Hamada]

All the crying and whining got our Cleric Stance taken away.

but we don't need clearic stance, not even sure why that was taken away but doing 70 damage to ice is way to small

[Yukumazi]

Again, you are a healer. in shatter the DPS have a job and that is to do damage to ice and players. Tanks have a job to survive and cause disturbance in engagements. Healers have a job to heal any incoming damage from enemies and throw debuffs onto enemies such as sleep/bind/slow/etc.

the time you are spending attacking the ice, you could've saved someone from dying by that point.

[Ama_Hamada]

Again, you are a healer. in shatter the DPS have a job and that is to do damage to ice and players. Tanks have a job to survive and cause disturbance in engagements. Healers have a job to heal any incoming damage from enemies and throw debuffs onto enemies such as sleep/bind/slow/etc.

the time you are spending attacking the ice, you could've saved someone from dying by that point.

Not when the matches starts and no one goes to the ice near the base, and since it is the start of the match, nothing to do really.

healers need to do more damage then 70 per cast, that is way to low.

This would be like taking away all stuns/binds/ etc from DPS because they are there only to do damage

[Yukumazi]

Why does a healer doing damage at the very start of the match matter when you have dps right next to you that can do damage and provide killing small ices in a instant. I don't get the point you are complaining about.

I'm trying really hard to not be rude and be helpful but you aren't making this any easy with such complaints. you are complaining about healers not doing damage in PvP when your job is TO HEAL. which makes no sense at all.

[Ama_Hamada]

Why does a healer doing damage at the very start of the match matter when you have dps right next to you that can do damage and provide killing small ices in a instant. I don't get the point you are complaining about.

I'm trying really hard to not be rude and be helpful but you aren't making this any easy with such complaints. you are complaining about healers not doing damage in PvP when your job is TO HEAL. which makes no sense at all.

As said, only me and a ninja went to it for some reason....
DPS is there just to DPS! not stun, bind, etc

[Yukumazi]

As said, only me and a ninja went to it for some reason....
DPS is there just to DPS! not stun, bind, etc

[Llus]

There was a time where healers could use cleric stance and fight back if an enemy engaged them. That was apparently OP so they disabled it in PvP.

They took cleric stance away because you'd see teams of WHMs holy farming other teams, it was GG if your team had 3-4 WHMs and no other classes would run making the entire mode pointless for other players. Because everyone was running SMN in shatter and it became GG if you had teams of SMN, they made the ice magic resistant to encourage other classes to play (foe req pls, mele pls). Healers should be healing in PVP which is why striking dummy PvP modes like shatter are so horrible. For PvP regulars, they don't want to spend time dpsing a dummy and healers basically have nothing to do but sit on their hands while at the striking dummies. I understand the frustration from the OP; but if you want to DPS - come in as a DPS class.