Which healer do you find the easiest?

[Rezef]

With the current toolkits WHM > AST > SCH. WHM is more beginner friendly and anyone can actually give it a shot and do fairly well (talking about casual content mostly). AST is in the middle. Initially may feel hard with card management (hahaha) and their seemingly weaker healing kit but learning it is not that hard, you just need to be comfortable with weaving but it certainly comes with time. And the hardest is SCH. The fairy makes it instantly much harder cause of how clunky the AI is. Plus the fact that most of your kit is locked behind Aetherflow makes the class feel harder and definitely not beginner friendly.

All in all if you put enough time into any of them you can learn it and become better at using the job. After all healing kn XIV is not that hard as many believe. Everything is telegraphed so after a while it feels more like Spam yout dmg skill, refresh dot every 30s and heal occasionally when needed then back to Spamming damage skill.

[Recon1o6]

WHM and AST are equally jokes to heal with, which is unsurprising considering how identical they are. Sch is only slightly harder because the fairy ai is awful.

[ToodlesElNoodles]

For me, easiest is the comfiest and I find SCH to be the comfiest.

[Jadkay]

AST does feels busier because they have to switch target really often, but it is this kind of busy that usually attracts people to play healer while not falling asleep in duty.

If you are talking about cards distribution mainly, you should try to use macro and ast UI, you don't need to change target to apply card to the proper player.

You can check this Reddit post to give you an idea of what you can do with macro and hotbar near party list.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

If you are talking about cards distribution mainly, you should try to use macro and ast UI, you don't need to change target to apply card to the proper player.

You can check this Reddit post to give you an idea of what you can do with macro and hotbar near party list.

I have seen this macro setup and tried it before. I didn't like nor particularly any better at it than targeting players manually lol. It's great that people can find ways to make their gameplay easier, but this one isn't just for me

[RobynDaBank]

As a newbie heading towards intermediate, I used to think WHM was best in the easy department. Now a lack of Essential Dignity, damage buffs to others, having both shield and regeneration tools (for now), being in level 80 content isn't the easiest. I wish I had switched to AST for good when I unlocked it way back.

Edit: how could I forget GCD "clipping"? I get that it sounds too technical a term, but really - you can just feel your basic gameplay flow break when you switch from damaging to, say, Tetragrammation. It feels so much better and forgiving to do so in AST with Malefic's shorter cast time. I'm really ecstatic this is fixed in Endwalker.

[Liam_Harper]

If you are talking about cards distribution mainly, you should try to use macro and ast UI, you don't need to change target to apply card to the proper player.

If you're going to macro AST I'd personally just mouseover macro. It's still not optimal (being a macro) but eliminates having to switch target from the boss and covers more than regular cards.

[Derio]

For me WHM>AST>SCH. SCH the ghosting and fairy management is a bit too much.

[Maxilor]

Honestly for me SCH > WHM > AST so far.

Still leveling, but I feel SCH has the most on-demand toolkit for most situations and I just enjoy it's abilities more than the other two.

AST is just way too busy for me, but WHM is too slow. So I'm kind of in a Goldilocks situations where SCH feels juuust right.

Dunno how I feel about Sage, but with the buffs that SCH is getting in Endwalker its gonna take a lot to pull me away from it.

(180% Adlos hubba hubba)

[AFuzzyMu11in]

Honestly for me SCH > WHM > AST so far.

Still leveling, but I feel SCH has the most on-demand toolkit for most situations and I just enjoy it's abilities more than the other two.

AST is just way too busy for me, but WHM is too slow. So I'm kind of in a Goldilocks situations where SCH feels juuust right.

Dunno how I feel about Sage, but with the buffs that SCH is getting in Endwalker its gonna take a lot to pull me away form it.

(180% Adlos hubba hubba)

i agree with this. whm easiest tho then sch but less raw healing so more thought needed and last ast. waaaay too busy