do you think this Wall to Wall pulling (in roulettes)is hurting the healer population

[Thmas]

Right, as an alt I don't even at 80 have much experience at gauging my effectiveness as WHM. I know to keep both HoTs up on tank, shield them on buster, and keep them focused for cures, and have 2 ogcd instants usually. So it was almost enough to cause me to just go back to my main. I'm just asking because I don't know where to draw the line between I need to do the job better, and they need to Gear up. What is a reasonable min gear range for content? For lvl X content, X -??

[Awha]

What confuses me personally what do people want when they ask for more healing intensive fights? More wack-a-mole style of play with health bars? More AoE damage? Our AoE healing would make that a none issue. More buffs and debuffs would be a balance nightmare, as for more mitigation tools, unless they make them all the same.

[MintnHoney]

Healers in a Square Enix game know what they are getting in to

You know, when I first began to play FFXIV, I secretly hoped I could, one day, dropkick my enemies and Cure my allies.
Now, with the direction Squeen has chosen to go, that will never be..

[Metalwrath]

I'd say the changes to healers kits in ShB is what lowered the healer population. Wall to wall pulls have been normal since HW.

Actually they've been normal since the release of wanderers palace back in ARR before CT content was even released.
Some of us were doing it even before wanderers palace to be honest.

[AngeliouxRein]

I personally don't really like wall to wall pulls as a healer. I like a mix of dps and healing. When it's wall to wall it's just become a game of spam healing (worst when the tank isn't handling the pull so well). For me, I came from MMOs that allowed healers to dps and heal. It was way more fun that way and it WAS fun here too... But then they butchered SCH to the seventh hell and for some reason made WHM the op healer...I just cannot... If they are trying to follow the lore of making WHM a force to be feared then that's fine but the other healers should also be sticking more to their lore too. AST use to be able to read cards but...SCH used to be a tactician at battle but...it's all become so frustrating...MCH is now becoming my main...

[alimdia]

Thing is if you like a mix of DPS and healing, a single pull isn't gonna give you that, single pulls can be healed without ever using a gcd heal.

[xxvaynxx]

I'll be honest. I actually hate when tanks don't wall to wall pull when I'm playing a healer...

[ReiMakoto]

Right, as an alt I don't even at 80 have much experience at gauging my effectiveness as WHM. I know to keep both HoTs up on tank, shield them on buster, and keep them focused for cures, and have 2 ogcd instants usually. So it was almost enough to cause me to just go back to my main. I'm just asking because I don't know where to draw the line between I need to do the job better, and they need to Gear up. What is a reasonable min gear range for content? For lvl X content, X -??

By both hots do you mean regen and asylum? Cos if you mean regen and medica 2 please do not do this just for the tank, medica 2 is insanely inefficient at regening single target and youre just throwing your mp down the toilet

[Shurrikhan]

No more than it has since ARR, which is to say... not at all.

[HyoMinPark]

It hurts as an astro >.<

To be fair, most things hurt as an AST now.

Also say what you want about ast and its cards, from my experience proper use of them makes mobs melt, so no complaints here.

In HW and SB, they made mobs melt even faster because single-target Balances were 10% for 30 seconds instead of 6% on a melee for 15 seconds (and 3% if you get stuck with double ranged)—more potent and they lasted longer; and they didn’t have arbitrary melee/ranged requirements on them. Not to mention, they could be enhanced for 150% potency, extended for double duration, or Time Dilated for an extra 15 seconds. They were also a lot more smoother to manage.