If you healer sucks to play in SHB what is your backup plan?

[Yuyuka3]

Paladin. Unfortunately, I'll only be able to move away from WHM when one of our tanks wants to switch to healer/my co-healer over to AST from SCH, since I'm not touching that wannabe Yugioh!-copycat of a healer.

FF14 fail to oblig us to heal constantly so we have a lot of downtime ... either you don't do anything and get bored, either you DPS but because they simplify rotation/removed dps it become even more boring now.

SCH was the only healer that use more than 1 button for DPS and now it's over.
AST was 1 button dps but at least the micro managment of cards was here, now it's over.
WHM ... has always been boring and still are so ... nothing changed.

It's a shame.

Aero III, Aero II, Stone IV, Assize... Holy for AoE. You quite obviously never really played WHM if you feel like they had a "one-button-rotation". Maybe that's not exactly the most engaging rotation ever, but at least you had to manage two DoTs with different timers and a nuke (and a filler), and let's be real here, SCHs DPS rotation wasn't that much better in SB. Aren't you the guy hating on WHM since forever now? That would explain your unqualified response.

[MrSmiley]

Paladin. Unfortunately, I'll only be able to move away from WHM when one of our tanks wants to switch to healer/my co-healer over to AST from SCH, since I'm not touching that wannabe Yugioh!-copycat of a healer.



Aero III, Aero II, Stone IV, Assize... Holy for AoE. You quite obviously never really played WHM if you feel like they had a "one-button-rotation". Maybe that's not exactly the most engaging rotation ever, but at least you had to manage two DoTs with different timers and a nuke (and a filler), and let's be real here, SCHs DPS rotation wasn't that much better in SB. Aren't you the guy hating on WHM since forever now? That would explain your unqualified response.

rip Aero III both in animation and losing a button for no apparent reason.

[kidalutz]

I'm pretty much going to keep healing and tanking and dpsing on the side. nothing is stopping me from doing all three I've mained healer in every single mmo I've ever played.

[Gemina]

So long as healing is required, there will not be a need for a backup plan. TBH, I've been getting by already. Suffocating under 90% DPS uptime, and finding the most enjoyment in chaotic situations. They can lessen that uptime by any margin and it is going to make healing more interesting to me.

What ultimately matters when it comes to healing in FFXIV is that I find myself in situations where peeps are saying, "MEDIC!" I'm sure there will be plenty of that in ShB, so I am no too worried. However, I do have other jobs outside of healing that I do enjoy playing. I seem to pick up 2-3 jobs every expansion so it will be interesting to see which ones catch my eye during this go.

[Side-Eye]

I had settled on AST as main but after learning of all the impending nerfs I figured there was no point continuing to play it, since EVERYTHING about how the job plays is going to change. So I've been playing RDM lately and aside from extra wait times I've been having fun. I might level my WAR from 70-80 first with ShB though, since that will likely get me the quickest queues.

I still can't believe the extent and depth of the nerfs to astro... reading down the list it seemed like every ability lost potency and several key features of the class have been deleted or detrimentally changed (e.g. Celestial Opposition, which was our only stun with the perk of adding a few extra seconds to buffs, now relegated to a simple minor group heal with a ridiculous 2min CD). I had read SE wanted to make healing a larger focus, but even our healing took some hits. Sigh.

[Trunks]

I've been playing WHM since nobody would take DRG to Titan HM (or anywhere else). So I'm probably just going to switch back now that Holy's garbage and half of DRG's kit is AOEs.

[Kukajoo]

I've been playing whm since the beginning, i switched to MCH for awhile but it made me pretty sad, i'm planning on taking up dancer and giving mch another go since its getting reworked /again/ but i'll still play whm, its my comfort zone.

[Trunks]

i'll still play whm, its my comfort zone.

Heh same for me. I can be snuggled up in bed, head on pillow, eyes closed, and playing WHM - and it's only getting better!

Sleep, sleep, sleep on~