Just wanna say, I really enjoy healing in this game.

[Renathras]

I'm actually quite fond of it, too -- except for whm at low levels. I'm sorry but everyone else gets regens and shields and they get diddly squat. That said...

I have played many MMOs and honestly, complaints over healers always seems to be the primary focus. A small but vocal minority always screeches about the other healers having something they don't and just how much more damage they want to do. They always say just how broken healers are in -this- MMO but when you ask them to cite an MMO what had healers they liked, they can't. They just can't. There are no other healers they like. They are never satisfied. Ever.

Largely agree. Many people here have been pointing to WoW healers as healing done right, but I remember healing in that game (and loving it, outside of Cataclysm where they supposedly switched the healers to a "triage" model of healing...but forgot to tell the encounter designers, so heals were weak but damage was still as hard hitting as Wrath just now healers didn't have the tools to deal with it anymore), and I remember people in that game still endlessly complaining about it, even as I found healing fun on all the healers, and I played every one other than Shaman (didn't have one leveled, but a friend let me play his for a few hours and I was able to pick up on it just fine and enjoy it, too)

While the majority (and this true in FFXIV today) like healing in the game, there is always a group that doesn't and complains.

Now, this isn't saying some of the complaints aren't justified or should be dismissed without analysis. But it IS saying that the complaints generally don't represent the majority and that there ARE some people who cannot be pleased. The grass is always greener...

I’ll put current warrior in that list too, because it’s certainly more enjoyable to heal casual content on than it has any right to be.

Having just finally gotten around to getting WAR to 90...this is hilariously true. Though it doesn't have an on-demand direct heal like Clemency or Vercure. But the absurdity of Raw Intuition/Nacent Flash is just hilarious.

So the only "screeching" that I see is from ill-informed people who are claiming that no one is ever satisfied anywhere. Please stop exaggerating.

These two sentences shouldn't be in the same post, much less right beside each other. I can be charitable and assume this was meant as sarcasm (with an /s tag), but it's still reaching and it's still furthering this weird notion that only people who are stupid/trolls/badz/newbies/ignorant would like healing in the game as it exists today. Tall about exaggerating.