Leveling healing is too boring. Does it get better?

[Lorika]

might do GW2

Eeeer if you want to heal then.... no.
ANet always said that they didn't want the holy trinity for GW2.... So, in the end, all the class have self sustain (more or less powerfull depending of the build).... The Meta Build closest to a healer is Ranger with Druid Spec (Add-on required) : https://hardstuck.gg/gw2/builds/rang...lacrity-druid/

But if you want to play only the F2P version, which is called Core, then nope... and if you buy Add-on.... Well you have 80 level to go + Skill point grind before unlocking the spec you want.... And then start the farm hell for gear <.<

[Hazama999]

I personally find the act of balancing DPS and Healing to be the most engaging part of FFXIV's healers. Interestingly neither side of the kit has been designed with major usage in mind: Evidently our DPS kits are very basic and lackluster for the prevalence of healing downtime but I would also argue that our current healing kit is also very lackluster for a sustained healing situation.

Our basic GCD healing tools do nothing interesting beyond "restore HP to target" or "restore HP to multiple targets". Medica, Adlo, Cure, Benefic, Helios, Succor...They are all really basic. Spamming cure on a target isn't more interesting to me than spamming glare on the enemy.

My point being, if they would redesign combat to require this form of sustained healing, our basic healing kits would also need to be redesigned.

I wish I could like this comment multiple times.

100% agree.

Neither side is interesting at this time. You got your occasional DoT and damage ability spam on the DPS side, but on the healing side you have just...... "HP number is down, make it go up!!" skills or some slight variation thereof. Shields, in their current iteration at least, are no more interesting than reactive healing either. In order for healing to actually be engaging, the game would have to support a system in which the type of damage, rather than just the NUMBER... affects how you use your kit.

[SpiralMask]

I have tried leveling healers, the problem is the lack of healing. I am so bored I fell asleep mid fight, noone died except me. The lack of engagement in the role is terrible. I have mained healing in every game I have played except FF14. When I started I started as a healer. I dropped healing and didn't look back until recently because I missed healing, yet I am running into the same issue, the severe lack of healing to be had.

unfortunately it does not, because the devteam is scared healers would flee in droves if they were a real class

[Iedarus]

unfortunately it does not, because the devteam is scared healers would flee in droves if they were a real class

Which is ironic because healers fled in droves after Shb caused the great homogenization.

[Ramiee]

Eeeer if you want to heal then.... no.
ANet always said that they didn't want the holy trinity for GW2.... So, in the end, all the class have self sustain (more or less powerfull depending of the build).... The Meta Build closest to a healer is Ranger with Druid Spec (Add-on required) : https://hardstuck.gg/gw2/builds/rang...lacrity-druid/

But if you want to play only the F2P version, which is called Core, then nope... and if you buy Add-on.... Well you have 80 level to go + Skill point grind before unlocking the spec you want.... And then start the farm hell for gear <.<

Nah healing is still a thing in gw2, there isn't really a healer role there's a support role which could include healing and tanking but that game isn't designed around trinity mmo system its about open class design where you create your role. It's why you can have a healing engineer that's also a tank or a DPS in scrapper.

[Lorika]

Nah healing is still a thing in gw2, there isn't really a healer role there's a support role which could include healing and tanking but that game isn't designed around trinity mmo system its about open class design where you create your role. It's why you can have a healing engineer that's also a tank or a DPS in scrapper.

Yeah i know.... But the last time i played (just before the last epansion), all the group were asking alacrity Meta build, and especially Druid for healing.
It was annoying.... The Meta Build are annoying on GW2, and it made me quit again (plus the fact that ANet is not capable to balance their game.... I mean Guardian is still overall OP since the release of the game)

[Ramiee]

Yeah i know.... But the last time i played (just before the last epansion), all the group were asking alacrity Meta build, and especially Druid for healing.
It was annoying.... The Meta Build are annoying on GW2, and it made me quit again (plus the fact that ANet is not capable to balance their game.... I mean Guardian is still overall OP since the release of the game)

It's what you have to deal with. MMOs with any interesting class design will have fluctuating metas and sometimes they will suck, for every mop resto shaman I had in wow there was a df resto shaman. I guess if you like consistency xiv is good for that, healers will never fluctuate to be unpickable in the current game but at the same time xiv healing is fucking boring.

[Elizasylen]

No it doesn't but the queues are fast.

[Maxilor]

Healing is fun in dungeons. Everything else just use a DPS class.

The nice thing is that you get insta queues for those dungeons, so you never have to worry about being a Healer outside of them.

[Elizasylen]

Healing is fun in dungeons. Everything else just use a DPS class.

The nice thing is that you get insta queues for those dungeons, so you never have to worry about being a Healer outside of them.

A neat trick I like is to play SMN then queue as SCH and just keep both jobs geared.