#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Rolder50]

Never played Wow, but this is great to hear!

I miss the days of being actively sought after as a top healer in EQ1, EQ2, and Aion. These days I feel lucky if an MMO even has a healing class since so many of them just decided to drop Healers for action combat.

In XIV I make jokes in Alliance Raids about only needing to press a heal button every half hour. While obviously not true, it just feels that way.

Let me put it this way, in XIV healers are judged by their DPS, but in WoW they are judged by their HPS. That alone should paint a good picture.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Let me put it this way, in XIV healers are judged by their DPS, but in WoW they are judged by their HPS. That alone should paint a good picture.

HPS is where it's at.

Watching youtube videos while I press Glare for long periods of time aside from reapplying a dot isn't it.

[Jojoya]

Let me put it this way, in XIV healers are judged by their DPS, but in WoW they are judged by their HPS. That alone should paint a good picture.

HPS is a terrible metric to judge healers by, whether in this game or in WoW. The more my party screws up so they take more damage, the higher my HPS goes. It's almost never a sign of a good healer. It's a sign of how bad the party is when it comes to mechanics.

Good to know that WoW players are still that dumb.

[Y2K21]

HPS is a terrible metric to judge healers by, whether in this game or in WoW. The more my party screws up so they take more damage, the higher my HPS goes. It's almost never a sign of a good healer. It's a sign of how bad the party is when it comes to mechanics.

Not necessarily true. I think you are forgetting there is a lot of raid fights that have unavoidable damage as well as very noticeable damage patterns designed for healers to act through. Its simply not "group bad" metric, but a metric that is somewhat useful to determine if your healing for certain fights doesnt meet a threshold.

WoW has a good number of healer checks, where your ability to clear is dependent upon how good your healers.

Its just encounter design difference, HPS doesnt matter in FF14 as much.