Has anyone quit healing?

[Sebazy]

It's much more an attrition model yeah. Stand up, do a big burst of healing then get right back to meditating. Healing itself generally wasn't hard, you just had to tread on eggshells and respect the content, doubly so if you were a Taru.

FFXI did a far better job of making everyone feel important even in merit or exp grinds though. I was a BRD main and on paper you'd look at the job and think it was entirely useless, I did so little personal damage that it'd take me some 10 minutes to solo some random fluff mob for a sliver exp at the level cap even though I was one of the best geared EU bards on the server. Yet many groups wouldn't even leave town without someone like myself for the support role. A good healer that could keep their MP going for a long chain was also absolutely cherished.