Where are all the healers?

[miraidensetsu]

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But often happens with some friends of mine (that's also healers) that have the courage to do savage content via PUGs. The value is often less, but always significant.

And I took healer class because I want to help. I like to be useful. But I don't want to receive hate just because I done below top X% damage while I was actually keeping my teammates alive.

Mind that I'm not advocating for the right of doing nothing on downtime. I'm advocating the right to do something but DPS on downtime. But if the healer have nothing to do for the next, say, 15 seconds, and doing that won't hurt his resources so bad that he can't heal when needed, then why not DPS?

For a healer, healing always comes first, then support the party (buff, mitigate, etc), manage resources (MP, cards, stacks, etc) and, for the least, DPS. And that is why I said that healer DPS is a bonus. And is on that point that I feel that I'm being misunderstood by you and Sebazy.

[miraidensetsu]

Completing (because sometimes only 1,000 chars is simply too few):

And I am also from those that thinks that a caster class must be always casting. But it appears that for the community that healers must DPS before everything, even healing.

And is from that misconception that they think that shame healers that don't meet a minimum DPS number is a good idea. And when healers begins to obey that numbers (to not being shamed), that comes another cargo of crap because they aren't healing anymore while the first problem is just worsening, adding more pressure into newer healers that's yet far from even doing savages. And all the crap generated by this misconception is what is scaring off the healers.

If we want more healers, as community, we must make healers feel welcome. That's how we can attract more people to healer jobs (and drop the queue time for DPS jobs).

[Tridus]

Completing (because sometimes only 1,000 chars is simply too few)

As an FYI, the character limit only applies to the original post. If you immediately edit, you can go as long as you want. That's how you see some very long posts here.

[HoodRat]

And I am also from those that thinks that a caster class must be always casting. But it appears that for the community that healers must DPS before everything, even healing.

I've said this multiple times in these threads in the past week but...no one is saying healers should dps when healing is needed. If you need to heal, then by all means heal. If you don't need to heal, then please do something useful.

The big beef is with healer entitlement and lazy players, not that healers should DPS while healing is appropriate.

This is the issue people are having. Just as an example, I ran leveling roulette with 2 friends the other day and we got Brayflox with a random ast. The ast would begin pulls by spamming benefic on the tank, regardless of what the tank's hp was at, and when most of the mobs were dead the ast would stand idle. One of my friends politely explained that this isn't WoW so he doesn't need to keep everyone at full hp the entire time and can dps some, and the ast's response was that he was the healer so he could do whatever he wanted and that he didn't care about the other people in his party.