Why you should play a healer!

[Ghishlain]

So please, do enlighten me on what exactly is different to your vague statement of "timers" and reacting to any other condition in an encounter. You're the one stating there's some significant difference in your original post.

I believe Cynfael is talking about unique job timers such as Greased Lightning, Hot Shot, Straight Shot, Huton, Heavy Thrust, etc.

AKA, things that a DPS class need to maintain to increase their effectiveness. Healer's don't really have any buff up time to maintain or rotation for optimal DPS / HPS.

The type of timers you're talking about are mechanics, IE:









Every single member of the party has to respond to these mechanics. They will respond differently, but it doesn't change that every single person has to respond to them and are not unique to an individual job.