Why you should play a healer!

[Clouse_Cleyra]

Just because it's not stressful for you doesn't mean that is true of everyone. Going to Costco is easy for me but very hard for a friend of mine with anxiety issues.

You're effectively writing off everyone else's feelings as wrong because you don't share them, which is absolutely terrible advice.

Its nearly impposible to a tank to die if you dont stop casting your stronger heal in normal circumstances.

[MoroMurasaki]

Its nearly impposible to a tank to die if you dont stop casting your stronger heal in normal circumstances.

This isn't a response to what Tridus said at all.

The sentiment being expressed is that different people feel anxiety about different things. I personally have a ton of tanking anxiety because I feel like the mistakes (losing aggro) are very visible. I understand objectively that as a healer your mistakes (people dying) are also very visible but I don't generally have anxiety about it.

Different people have different experiences which shape their feelings about doing certain things. If someone is anxious about healing, even if I don't feel that way myself, I understand where they're coming from.

Also franking spamming your strongest heal isn't good advice to give anyone. I know it was more just insinuated but yeah, new healers... Don't do that under most circumstances. It's objectively bad/inefficent.

[Gemina]

I know, im a healer and I think im a very good one, ofc im not near the best but im always on the last tier raid content.
Ofc I dps and also heal, still I dont think its stressfull, com on guys dungeons are w/e content, its impposible to get stressed on a dungeon...

I personally don't determine a healer's skill by the content they've cleared. Many players get carried to their clears. I evaluate skill by their ability to adapt to situations while optimizing their job and role. What myself and other posters are trying to express to you is it's not the difficulty of healing that is stressful. In fact, many of us welcome situations where it's heal or die because it tests our limits in clutch situations.

The impression I'm getting from you is healing comes easy to you because you don't really care about optimizing it, and/or you treat dungeons as whatever content. This is the difference between you and another healer who gets stressed. It isn't 'whatever content' to them. It is a dungeon, which requires several other RL players, and you stick out like a sore thumb when you screw up. To them, it's not that it's a dungeon; it's that it is NOT single player content, which is their comfort zone.

Healing also gets stressful when they have to carry the whole load: Tanks constantly on the verge of dying, and won't allow you to allocate MP towards DPS. DPS players with really low DPS and bad gameplay, which forces us to monitor them more, which makes monitoring the tank more stressful. An experienced healer will definitely tell you about a time or two that they felt like they carried the whole instance. Most also won't be very happy about it either and go about patting themselves on the back. That's what elitists do.

But if you stick to only healing you will be able to go out on every dungeons (tip for new healers I sometimes see, on big pulls on dungeons use ur stronger heals with lucid dreaming and spam it you will be fine.

Seriously, please don't come here giving bad advice to new healers. New healers should know that if they have to spam their biggest heals to get a clear, something is seriously not right. Especially in a dungeon. You don't spam your biggest cures during big pulls either. You use your regens/shields, ogcd heals to conserve MP, and the APPROPRIATE cure depending on how much damage the tank has sustained, and how quickly it is depleting.

And Ill repeat myself, its a game. Relax!

And I'll repeat myself. Don't be complacent.

I'm pretty sure relaxing and having fun is why most of us sub, and those who are complacent are the ones that make things more stressing than they need to be, and take some of that fun away. Make sense?