Suggestion: healer-based incentives/rewards

[Mikki]

Yup. And guess who gets the blame when something goes wrong? Regardless of whether or not said healer was actually at fault.

In addition to healing, doing mechanics and carrying other players, we also have to dps as much as possible. So healing being a simple matter of performing your primary role plus mechs? Yeah... No.

Yet tanks are the only role that gets achievement mounts. I've honestly never felt that that was particularly fair. In my own experience, both healing and tanking, healers are needed every bit as much. I can't tell you how many times I've had to sit in queue waiting for a healer as tank, but it's far more than the reverse.

In my opinion, role in need should be two tier, as someone said earlier in the thread, and second in need should be getting rewards too. Show healers some love too, SE.

As a healer, I love when someone gets one shot (tank) because they didn't use their cooldown but it's automatically assumed to be the healers fault. :') And, it's actually not the easiest thing in the world to heal + DPS spam when the tank pulls huge waves and doesn't have the best gear. n__n; Especially when the DPS decides to just sit in every aoe (I find black mages to be the worst offenders). Not sure why people act like healing is an easy thing to do.... even my friend who is a hardcore player and can play pretty much any content on any role admits healing is the most difficult role.

And do you need to do DPS? Maybe not. But you *should*. I mean, tanks can also do the bare minimum and perform pretty poorly too. And I've seen it plenty of times....

I don't really tank so I don't know how queues are for tanks but mine are almost always instant unless I'm doing a 24 man or something super old and obscure OR I'm trying to do something at 5am. If it's true that there are just as many healers missing as tanks then I'm confused as to why we aren't treated the same as tanks. :/