I'm not going to lie. I thought healers got the hell nerfed out of them this expansion. I had a string of groups where boss party busters (the unavoidable AOEs they all do) were causing me to get killed nearly half the time. I was like damn... did AOE heals get nerfed or something. So when I got my first job to 80 and then I decided to get on and dust off one of my healing classes. Made sure they had the best gear they could and ran the first dungeon. One of the dungeons I had alot of problems receiving heals in.

Yeah.. they weren't nerfed badly. In fact I found it pretty easy. I found I could even time my AOE healing to make it look like the party busters hadn't hit the group at all.

Just yesterday. My friend was running Ala Mhigo as a tank. The healer who was in 400+ item level gear was struggling on two pacls. So he did what he normally does when players struggle, he tones it back. But there's a part nearly halfway where a ton of mobs come out, you can't control it, they just come. He died there and he was told by the healer he wasn't geared enough.

He was a Gunbreaker.. but wearing level 75 gear from ShB... He was better geared than the healer by a bit. How the hell do you get better gear than what you find in Qitana Ravel before you're even in the expansion? Wtf was going through that healer's mind?

So healers...

If you are keeping the tank from dying. We appreciate it.
If you keep the DPS topped off after AOE. We appreciate it.
If you use defensives to keep party mates from dying. We appreciate it.

If you fail at any of those things. We don't appreciate it.

And sorry to say, I've seen no instance where there should be any problems ingame. Had a wipe yesterday because a healer decided to look at a TV during a boss fight and got themselves killed. It always little things like that. So please.. and this goes for Tanks and DPS. When you queue up, lets have your undivided attention. I understand RL gets in the way sometimes. But when you queue up, and work with 3 players. Those 3 players have finished any RL priorities before engaging. Lets give them the courtesy of doing the same. We have limited time, lets not waste each other's time on stuff we can prevent.