Confusing Things About Healers?

[MOZZYSTAR]

I get the impression that some folk didn't read the OP.

I honestly don't even understand what they're asking. Do they mean the NPC healers, like Alphinaud?

General healer confusion:
- Lily system (I haven't played WHM in years and I will never play it again, so I don't really plan to get fussed over it)

Class-wise confusion:
- Why they changed AST's cards so significantly when they only needed to change one card for the TP removal
- Why they removed some of AST's support skills like stun and time dilation, while WHM still has a stun
- Why they kept AST's "undraw" button when virtually no one uses it (some didn't even realised it existed).
- Why they decided SCH was no longer a saboteur class
- Why they made Selene a skin instead of making her more practical in the dungeons she'd be amazing in
- Why did Scholar forget some skills from its Arcanist days while its Summoner counterpart remembers?
- Why is Scholar not really a pet class anymore?

[GrimGale]

As a followup, SCH's, when did you guys stop wearing your nice hat? I only ever see it in crystal tower sch's now

Hrothgar SCH here. I am not allowed to wear my Mortabard.

[GrimGale]

*Mortarboard

[Wolfsbane706]

I honestly don't even understand what they're asking. Do they mean the NPC healers, like Alphinaud?

I'm talking about healer mains. Players who play Healer a lot.

[Corbeau]

Are these new AST's I occasionally see in crystal tower roulette? why did they pick up the job when pretty much all AST's retired when 5.0 hit.

This one is easy: it's an appealing alt job because it doesn't start at level 1.

[Rosa_Frandlia]

This one is easy: it's an appealing alt job because it doesn't start at level 1.

Which gets into another problem with healers if someone wants to pick it up. Want a tank? 20 levels to grind. Want ranged physical? 20 levels to grind. Want physical melee? 30 levels to grind. Want caster? 30 levels to grind. Want healer? 50 levels to grind. If no new healer in next expansion, that would be likely 60 levels to grind.

[Mimilu]

I'm talking about healer mains. Players who play Healer a lot.

So you're asking "What about Healer Players confuses you?"?

[Schan]

Are these new AST's I occasionally see in crystal tower roulette? why did they pick up the job when pretty much all AST's retired when 5.0 hit.

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can my co healers please explain why they swiftcast raise someone the person who I'm rezzing slowly because they were taking so long

Some people enjoy AST. Some people find AST the "better" healer as things stand right now. I always run dungeons as AST.

Some people swiftcast when you're slowly rezzing because sometimes when people drop dead I have 7 seconds on my swiftcast so I'd rather wait. Also people struggle to see cast bars in the party. There's also the tims where there's 2 dead people and I'm guessing which one you're rezzing so we sometimes rez the same person. There's also priorities. If the party is low and there's AoE dmg coming up or a tank buster I'd rather make sure other people suvive first and then I focus on scrapping other people's behind off the floor.

[Billythepancake]

About the players themselves? The only thing that really confuses me at this point (other than why play that role) is when they decide to not even try to DPS. For low level dungeons when you're just getting you're feet wet, sure, I get that, especially if you're brand new to the game as well, but the people who have several level 80s and are in a late ShB dungeon? That doesn't make any sense, mate. Throw out a holy or something, at least put some dots up.

[Aomine1992]

SE why does Nocturnal AST suck so bad like soo bad to the point I hate healing with a WHM partner....