Healer dps in difficult raids and trials.

[MoroMurasaki]

Healer DPS is entirely mandatory and non-negotiable in all content, unfortunately. Once you get more experience, though, you’ll realise not only that ‘healing’ isn’t really a thing in XIV, but that healers are all specifically designed with the intention of maximising their DPS.


The entirety of your healing can and should come from oGCD healing. You can pretty safely remove Cure / Physick / Benefic from your hotbar if you really wanted. Which means that you have a ton of time where you’re not using your GCD (and thus not doing anything).
And because support spells are too hard to implement or whatever excuse they have, literally the only option you have is DPS or nothing.

You will never be considered a ‘good healer’ unless you do high DPS. Most people would rather have a high DPS low heal healer than one with good healing but low DPS; they’d also agree that healers are better to let DPS die than interrupt their own rotation. The main reason I don’t main a Scholar is because spamming Broil II and DoTs is mind-melting levels of boring.

In my honest opinion it’s an awful system that’s perverts if what healers actually are; you either heal too much and do too little DPS or you aren’t healing enough to satisfy your party members.. But in future, if you really want to do well you pretty much have to accept that you are not a true healer. You’r3 a DPS with healing spells, or a support that deals damage while providing some healing, whatever you want to think. But you’re not a ‘healer’ in the traditional sense of the word. If you tried to play as a true healer and didn’t focus on DPS, there’s a good chance, you’ll be considered a pretty bad healer by many people’s standards.

Personally, I don’t care about a healer’s DPS unless the party has take no/negligible damage for an extended period. Even if they’re just using Cure or whatever to keep the tank topped off, I’d rather have a healer that heals too much than one that just does DPS. Some won’t be as forgiving, however.

A lot of it really is to do with how you want others to perceive you. Do you want to be seen as a good’ healer by XIV standards? Maybe you’re happy as long as is everyone is healed and aren’t bothered by how high your damage is as a healer. My advice is that I personally don’t think it’s a problem if a healer focuses too much on healing. As long as they aren’t using it as an excuse to go afk

I was 99% sure this was a really long, funny joke until I skimmed the rest of this thread.

Don't worry OP, this is like nearly all meme even if it wasn't intended this way. You'll find time to do more dps as you get more comfortable with your abilities and gear up.

Your damage per second points on those contents have to be equal or higher than your heals per second points. If it is not, change role.

I assume you've never healed Savage?