The (real) power of being a healer

[Akuha]

I've yet to ever have time to even buff myself up, let alone be able to throw off a couple Stone II's and whatnot. How do people do this?

I just had a DPS tell me to leave the party the other day because I wasn't healing good enough and the tank tell me my armor wasn't doing me any favors because my Cure wasn't giving him enough. :/ Except the tank wasn't pulling aggro off me and I ended up being too busy running away and trying to get breathing space to even fire off a Cure I/II, but nope, it's always the healer's fault, isn't it?

From what I've observed since I started playing Conjurer/White Mage, I would think that the amount of breathing room you have as a healer is largely dependent on the competency of your tank. If there's aggro flying everywhere then odds are your tank isn't doing his job right. Or perhaps your DPS classes might need to throttle back their attacks a bit. But as a healer, it helps to only heal as much as you need to to keep the tank alive (keeping him around 75-80% is usually fine), especially when there's multiple strong enemies around. Toss him a quick Esuna if he gets poisoned or paralyzed. As was already stated, the Repose skill can be a godsend when used correctly, and assuming you're in a party that concentrates their fire on one target rather than everyone attacking whatever the hell they want. Right after the tank marks his targets, 1, 2, and 3, and right before the targets start pummeling him, sleep 2 & 3. At that point you should have enough breathing room for some stance dancing, that is, Cure/II > Stance > Stone II > Aero> Stance > Cure/II > Stance > etc. etc. (At least that's the rotation I usually use).

Something else you can do is enhance your skills with some macros.
/ac "Cure II" <tt> - This one uses Cure or Cure II on the target of your target, letting you heal the tank while watching your enmity gauge of the monster wailing on him.
/ac "Stone II" <tt> - Target your tank while using this one to cast Stone II on whatever target your tank is looking at.
You can get a lot more creative than that, but I prefer to keep things simple since I don't have a mouse to use while I'm playing (PS3).

[lineandcolor]

Hm. I've never used macros, honestly. I don't know how ^^; Like I said, I'm very new to this and when asking about dungeons and whatnot, I was literally only told to just heal the tank for the most part and then heal the DPSs if they need it. Actually going in and DPSing was never something I really thought about because any time I tried I managed to pick the worst moment to go through the hotbar or something (I'm also on a PS3) and suddenly my tank is back down to below 50%.

I've already been told to leave a party for trying to multitask and I really don't want to be told it's my fault again. ._.

[Akuha]

Hm. I've never used macros, honestly. I don't know how ^^; Like I said, I'm very new to this and when asking about dungeons and whatnot, I was literally only told to just heal the tank for the most part and then heal the DPSs if they need it. Actually going in and DPSing was never something I really thought about because any time I tried I managed to pick the worst moment to go through the hotbar or something (I'm also on a PS3) and suddenly my tank is back down to below 50%.

I've already been told to leave a party for trying to multitask and I really don't want to be told it's my fault again. ._.

You and the tank are always top healing priority. The DPS is always bottom priority, as if they're getting damaged it's usually their own fault for pulling too much aggro and not regulating their attacks and/or switching targets when necessary (unless the tanks sucks). As for macros, they're cake easy to use once you get a feel for them. First flip over to your actions hotbar, the one with all the red icons. Unless you fiddled with it the macro one should be L2 + Directional Button Up.

Here's a couple macro guides you can look at and learn from. The 2nd one is specifically for White Mages, but read the first one to gain a basic understanding of how they work first.
http://erals.guildwork.com/forum/thr...ith-extra-fish
http://ffxivrealm.com/threads/some-whm-macros.7350/

[Animation]

OP please rename title to: How to act like a child and grief the dungeon.
Threatening to not heal someone is pathetic.

[Michelasso]

OP please rename title to: How to act like a child and grief the dungeon.
Threatening to not heal someone is pathetic.

What? Did I? I didn't threat anyone. I never mentioned that I won't heal. My point was that if I am not welcome in a party I may quit. I've read of people asking for the option of kicking out the people watching cut-scenes in another thread. Don't worry, I'll save them the disturb. I'll go away myself.