Quote Originally Posted by Blindheart View Post
Do you have helpful advise to provide? Your saying how they are doing it wrong but are not explaining what to do right.
If I had to explain applying shields before an attack to every single shield healer I get tagged with, I'd be there all day. It's not an exaggeration when I say 99% of them don't take full advantage of shields. The number of shield healers using shields like normal heals is so staggering that I wasn't sure if the game failed spectacularly at explaining the concept or if I was missing something since I don't play a shield healer. However, I have a friend who plays AST and particularly enjoys Noct AST and another friend who plays SCH, and they both confirmed that shields were meant to be used to negate incoming damage, so my understanding of the concept was correct.

I know that shielding is preemptive, which is why I don't blame shield healers when they don't shield in time when they're new to the content, though sometimes they can make an educated guess. But when the healer isn't new to the encounter, they should already have an idea of some of the attacks (not necessarily all of them, mind you). I mean, not shielding a stack mark is kinda blasphemous since we all know what that mark means by the time we reach a certain level. And what I noticed with SCH is that when they use their shields after a rather heavy attack hits, their healing doesn't do much and the shields will eventually fall off, thus rendering their spell kinda pointless. Not all casual content is a faceroll. I've been doing Alphascape 3 NM lately, and his stack and raid-wide attacks aren't to be taken lightly.

Quote Originally Posted by Raskbuck View Post
Shields are useless in casual content. Specially if your co-healer likes to overheal 99% of the time by chaining Medica II, Afflatus Rapture and Assize anyway.
Don't get me started on overhealing healers because that's a frustrating can of worms I'd rather not open.