Why do you heal?

[bloodSp3c]

for me it all started with swtor (which I still play) before that tho I would always play dps. but in swtor when u play as the mercenary class u can play as a healer with dual pistols and u basically shoot your allies to heal them...with green bullets! I thought that was an interesting way of healing, shooting your teammates in the back to heal haha

i really came to enjoy healing in swtor and stuck with it ever since. when ff14 came out i knew i wanted to be healer from day 1. not the same as shooting your teammates with dual pistols but still awesome.

[Arrius]

Because it makes me being a desired person to be around and such things gets me all warm and tingly at my ego.

Oh, and shorter queue times.

[Skander]

Because... I'm not particularly good at it? Seriously, once I started getting into the later 40s and sh** got real, I began building up anxiety when healing new contents. It's fun, and I have some feeling of accomplishment when I started hitting my stride as WHM. Recently picked up the mortarboard and... Whew, there's that old familiar feeling again. I love when groups come together and work well, and healing feels central to that cooperation.

[PrimeEvilPanda]

Someone once cutely pointed out that for Healers, the DPS and tank are just minions he/she sends out to do battle for them

[AiChyan]

This is my first time healing anything. I wanted to try it because my friend said I might enjoy it, and I actually do. It gets stressful and painful, but nothing beats clearing content knowing you did your role well and helped others give 100%.
I can't say I always enjoy it, but I frankly don't enjoy being a dedicated dps and have zero sense of direction so can't tank either :x

[Jollyy5]

Mainly out of demand, used to be a DPS, but since our FC already had so many, I went Scholar.

Healing is okay, being able to recover from a tight spot and managing to save the day makes me feel good, but I still prefer hitting things.

[Ruddi]

I play all jobs to be good at them all for for the variety of roles, ATM I enjoy SCH over WHM because doing stuff like brayflox's longstop hard with the massive pulls I find SCH to be easier that WHM and also easier to DPS when small pull and boss fights.

[Memoe]

To break out of rotation. Too much DPS role depends on circling over a certain rotation for max dps in my opinion. And since SE ruined the DPS class for me (mostly the fast pace executed poorly (old battle system back for lyfe!)), it's what I now enjoy the most.

[Mamba]

I like playing Scholar because I have so much different things to do.
Last night we were doing T8 and on that fight I am in charge of leeching the tank from diffusion ray, keeping an eye on AOE tower and making sure sacred soil is up, Succor is casted right before and Fey Covenant is on all. Then Fey Illumination>Whispering Dawn while at the same time cast more succor, adlo tank and more leeching. Virus dreadnaught and eye4eye on tank, cast a few debuffs and keep eye on Ballistic missiles... If I for once turned away from my screen everyone would be dead.
Healers are the most important members of the team, if healer goes down, shortly after everyone will.

That and also:

Because I have control issues.

[Bluevann]

I like to play healer because it's much more relaxing than the two other classes. You can do your job just fine without worrying to keep up time-limited rotations or combos. As a main BLM, I sure do enjoy the break playing healer gives me XD.