Why you love playing healer

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I guess "technically," I'm a career healer? This is the only game where I didn't take a healer role as my main, actually. I couldn't deal with the anxiety, there seems to be a lot of pressure put on heals from the community.

I like supporting the team. If I'm in a crap party, it's satisfying when I meet the challenge and get everyone through alive anyway (although admittedly, I've only taken my WHM into 4-man dungeons at this point). Hell, some of the most fun I've had is when healer dies or AFKs, and I have to throw DPS out the window to pull the party back together.

But mostly I enjoy playing healer when my sis tanks since we've done the tank/healer duo thing since we were little kiddies. It's more fun when we can play in the same room and bicker at each other.

Also I don't really trust other healers now. XD I've watched too many of them (maybe half?) get caught up with DPSing and let the tank die. @_@; And then the mobs all come for me. T_T

[Gemina]

Also I don't really trust other healers now. XD I've watched too many of them (maybe half?) get caught up with DPSing and let the tank die. @_@; And then the mobs all come for me. T_T

Healers pushing their limits will go through this, and unfortunately take their tanks with them... and the rest of the party. It is honestly part of the learning process for healers, much in the same way a tank learns exactly how much they can take without overwhelming their healer. I continuously make this mistake in groups. Sometimes I underestimate the tank and expect them to use a CD, he doesn't, my cure doesn't get off in time and down he goes. Other times, the tank literally saves my ass by using their CDs effectively. Simply put is sometimes my focus is too much on healing, and sometimes it is too much on DPSing, which reduces optimization.

I love that challenge though, and I always apologize to my party when I know I need to put more focus on healing.

[SeriousxSarcasm]

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I hope you don't misunderstand me. For sure, I encourage if they're learning (even vets make mistakes once-in-a-while), I'm usually the first to bitchsmack people that get pissy with our healers (I've been yelled at enough myself to know how horrible it feels). But it's pretty obvious because a mistake like that is usually followed by "sorry my bad," but when my sis is using cooldowns and Clemencying herself for 80% of the dungeon and she still dies multiple times, you can't really excuse that, lol (... I wish I was exaggerating, This is a pretty common situation: "Oohkay, I've used all my cooldowns. my MP is gone. Healer is dancing in the corner. I have 800hp and Hallowed Ground ends in 2 seconds.Mandar you better get titan out. Like now."). Hell, I've lost a few tanks while trying to practice the Cleric Stance dance (which I still suck at, but one day!! I will master it), but it was never that bad even when I first started. D: Like really, I should've brought my under-geared SCH, at least then physic would do something for me. -_-;

Dunno, maybe we've just had a very unlucky, month-long run of troll healers lol.

edit: to be fair, I don't think these are actually healers we are getting. I think they're probably DPS that power leveled in PotD and don't really care about healing. It's still frustrating though, and unfortunately has made me skeptical of every healer we get in dungeons now. ^^;

[Gemina]

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No misunderstanding. Trust me, I'm with you about frowning upon healers who prioritize DPS over heals. I make the mistake as well of casting one Holy too many, and getting us all killed. But like you, I always immediately own up to it and apologize to my group. It's ironic actually, as I have attempted to be a loud voice on these forums with supporting heals over DPS, yet I am still guilty of DPSing too much xD

Several posters have stated that they heal because they can't rely on the player base to do it. This saddens me. Not because of their reasoning, but rather because their experiences have led them to that conclusion. I hope that they still get a rewarding experience from it, and still find enjoyment in the role.

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Several posters have stated that they heal because they can't rely on the player base to do it. This saddens me. Not because of their reasoning, but rather because their experiences have led them to that conclusion. I hope that they still get a rewarding experience from it, and still find enjoyment in the role.

Yeah, that is kind of depressing. </3 I'm sure they must find something rewarding about it. Personally I can't handle the stress of full heals (I have immense respect for the people that can omg), so I went with a support DPS main instead lol.I sorta look at it as healer's pocket helper with res/virus/e4e in my kit (and physic spam works alright in lower level stuff too). Been thinking of leveling BRD, but I don't think I can deal without res as my "oh shit" button when tank loses aggro and mobs shank the healer. XD

Practicing with SCH lately, hoping maybe I can get used to it, but I honestly find it more confusing than WHM because it's like being a SMN stuck in pre-lvl-50, with some healering sprinkled on top. :/ It confuses my brain lol.