For Shame, Mr. Yoshida - Being a Healer in 2026

[Aidorouge]

The only time healers have fun, now, is when you get at least two new people in a fight, or one person having a really bad day. When things go right, healing is the most boring thing to do in this game. You mess up enough where I get to fully flex my kit, you are getting a comm as a thanks for letting me play my job.

I try to lowkey not use Second Wind/Bloodbath when I can, but that sometimes has the opposite effect of the healer being so zoned out doing their 1-button DPS/doing something in a 2nd monitor that they don't notice I'm hurt for several seconds if not the entire fight, lol.

I don't blame that on healer incompetence though, I fully get why they might be bored out of their minds and/or fighting against dozing off in normal content.

[ForsakenRoe]

One thing is being able to do so in old content.
Completely another thing was when I watched, at a moment of Dawntrail release, a tank solo entire boss of Vanguard dungeon, alone, start to end. Nobody should be able to pull such thing off in a dungeon that was just released in current patch. This game has insane balance issues. In fact it probably is worst out of all games I ever played.

Reading this made it click in my mind

What Tanks now do self-healingwise, is the exact kind of power that was used to justify BLU being unable to be a real Job. 'It'd be too OP cos it could selfheal stupid amounts with White Wind/can mitigate stupid amounts with Diamondback', meanwhile we have WARs in dungeons healing their entire HP bar once per GCD, for 3 GCDs, every 25s

[Striker44]

I'm a pug player, so I haven't really run into this much. When I'm in a pug, I'm sometimes surprised how much healing some tanks need while others need one. That includes some warriors that may not really know how to play or something, as I see their HP plummet.

I love my pugs and players that get hit by almost everything lol.

This is exactly my experience. I run 99.5% of my dungeons in random LFG pugs, and most tanks I'm paired with need some degree of healing to survive the typical 2-pack mob pulls. Are there tanks sufficiently skilled that they can play thru a normal-level dungeon without a healer? Absolutely. Just like someone else above who mentioned you can do the same without a tank.

[GraceHorizon]

I try to lowkey not use Second Wind/Bloodbath when I can, but that sometimes has the opposite effect of the healer being so zoned out doing their 1-button DPS/doing something in a 2nd monitor that they don't notice I'm hurt for several seconds if not the entire fight, lol.

I don't blame that on healer incompetence though, I fully get why they might be bored out of their minds and/or fighting against dozing off in normal content.

Oh please do use your role abilities to help yourself. Most healers are not fussy about it and some need all the help they can get. I use mine when I screw up a mechanic or when I’m in trouble and the healer(s) can’t easily help.

[hynaku]

How the game is now there is no point to add anymore new healer jobs till it's fixed.

[PercibelTheren]

i mean.. you want to heal people theres plenty of content that allows you to do so. Literally every ex trial, savages, variant+, quantum give heals a lot to do
you cant make casual dungeons more heal intensive, because 90% of "casuals" would fail them then and they would vent even more

Most of that healing amounts to "press your big OGCD AoE heal every 30 seconds, right as it comes off cooldown", though.

[Supersnow845]

Apparently the peak of savage healing is pressing sacred soil before every raidwide and then indom after every raidwide

[Reginald_Cain]

Blame the heal bots holding parties hostage for healing being on everybody

[Supersnow845]

So because the average DPS is awful at doing their rotation and the average tank doesn’t have reprisal on their bar can we simplify them down to 1 button spam with a bloat of other actions then give half the actual useful actions to the other roles

I’ll gladly take hallowed ground and bloodwhetting off WAR and PLD’s hands given how bad the average tank I see is

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Designs a role designated to attract dumb healbots > blames the dumb healbots for flocking into the role.

Lol.