Quote Originally Posted by Payadopa View Post
Then why did you choose playing as a healer?
I'm honestly asking.
Wow, I did my initial reply and walked away, just came back to check on this thread. I didn't think it would stay active.

It's a great question. I started because I don't get a lot of time to play, so I don't want to spend that time waiting in queues as DPS. I played a tank in wow, but I hated how the whole pace of a dungeon was based on you, especially in the mythic dungeons.

I thought I would try healer in ffxiv, and really liked it. I liked how you had to balance healing with dps. I started as a scholar, and it just felt really good all around. It was really awesome when you could get in a flow and keep damage up while keeping the tank near full health.

I think there was a major change when Shadowbringers came out. I can't remember exactly, but I want to say scholars lost a lot of their damage spells (it might actually be just one or two). I think tanks also started taking a bit more damage? It was a pretty strong shift to primarily healing.

Mind you, I left just a few months after 5.0 came out (I beat the main campaign, and began to loose interest and didn't want to pay if I wasn't playing everyday). Back when I left, I think tanks weren't pulling as much because no one had a high item level. So coming back was really tough. Keeping up with the huge pulls was really hard.

I recently switched back to white mage. I reassessed my healing and use of gcds. I'm doing a lot better now and enjoying it again. I still don't feel like I have the hang of SCH though, and whm doesn't feel as smooth as I would like (just getting used to long casts). But it's getting better.