Dear Healers who don't DPS

[miraidensetsu]

If that's the only thing you took away from this thread, you didn't actually read that much of it; that, or you are cherry-picking the parts that offend you most and not wanting to acknowledge the posts where people made helpful suggestions as to how to leverage healer DPS while balancing it appropriately with healing requirements.

If the hat fit on your head as well...

And there are difference between being useful and condescending.

As for guides, I'm not sure what you're expecting to see.

An guide that's updated for Stormblood.

DPS and Tank roles have buff/stance timers to be observed and set combos that need to be executed in sequence for optimal results;

If you said that, no wonder you fave no clue of what I'm looking for.

healers do not. There is no hard and fast rule of "when target drops to X% HP, use this spell."

But there are a lot of tips that isn't on tooltips that is scattered. There is an optimal rotation for some common situation. There is job mechanics that have a optimized way to use. There is even a way to get 3K+ DPS as healer. And all of that can be resumed into... A guide.

There are also a number of ways to achieve the same result while healing, so many attempts to create strict healer guides end up spreading disinformation or inadvertently promoting poor gameplay. I think all of this is why there are more often guides on using spells and cooldowns in certain encounters (e.g. Savage, Primal EX) than on the nuts and bolts of specific healer Jobs.

At least those people try to write something useful, even it isn't exactly the most optimized way of playing.

But you could write some guide.

If a player can read tooltips, learn through practice, and benefit from advice they find useful, they will be perfectly fine.

If the party don't kick him before he can learn something, that is it. Or do you forgot that practice involves 3 or 7 other players that not always have the patience to go through a wipefest because the healer don't know how to properly heal yet?

If they have specific questions about how certain spells and abilities work or what some useful applications for them are, I haven't observed that the forum community is miserly with its collective expertise.

But how about a response that demands more than a few lines that is really a newbie question that no one has the courage to ask here?

Remember, job mechanics > fight mechanics. A well understanding of the job mechanics is one of the things that make someone good.