Healer etiquette 8 man parties

[Maxipep]

Hi, just wondering how the 2 healers in an 8 man party decide who to heal to save both healing the same person.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thank you.

[Arkane]

Easy they communicate.

[Lyrinn]

Easy they communicate.

So simple, yet elegant.

[Maxipep]

Easier said than done on a PS3, by the time you've bought up the virtual keyboard..

but at least I know there isn't a role for one who just heals tanks and the other the rest of the party.

[Lyrinn]

For most 8 man content, there's no need to assign tanks to healers. I can't speak for Second Coil, but for everything else, maybe Turn 1 and Turn 4 if the healers don't feel confident keeping both tanks up simultaneously. Levi EX, WHM heals OT. Those are the only instances I can think of where both tanks are expected to take continuous heavy damage.

In general, if you're running WHM/SCH, WHM always gets priority on raid, SCH on tanks.
If you're running WHM/WHM, no one cares.
If you're running SCH/SCH, you're boned (kidding, but exact same situation as WHM/WHM).

[Yumi_umi]

Any content that requires healers to fully tend to a different tank for a phase.
Cuz that ment when your assigned tank dies you know it's all on you.
I.e early days of turn 1.
Your keeping your tank healthy then all of a sudden the other healer gets hoodwinked or fails to mitigate the damage once the damage gets high.

[echoica]

I run both whm and sch as a healer main and typically an unspoken rule it's sch on war and whm on pld with shared duty where necessary and on party. But as others mentioned depends on fight and party make up. In any case it's not black and white you need to be dynamic and roll with whatever the party needs during the course of the fight.

[Velo_Vandore]

Grr @ the first two posts! Naughty naughty! Typical forum knee jerk reaction sarcastic blame the OP, there's no issue response! Are you suggesting that we literally say "I'm healing this person now" every heal? Be specific, lol! Shame on you :P

I've been doing some early coil and and primals with my FC recently and we tend to have one on the tank and one on the rest of the group (obviously switching to support the other if needed).

For Garuda EX you have to have a tank each. This is communicated at the start normally. In terms of etiquette I just keep an eye on the other healer and try to get a feel for their style. For example, we both went in with medica's the first couple of times the group got hit. I noticed the other healer was much quicker at firing it than me, so I would save the MP and just cure / cure II / regen (or even the odd stoneskin on squishies) where it was needed. For big group attacks of course I'd join in with AOE healing. This did mean I was often just standing there while the other healer did the work, but I managed to save some MP and got my chance to unleash it later in the fight. We wiped anyway XD

Conversely if I see the other healer is keeping the tank up I won't keep healing the tank every hit he takes but instead will take the group heal role.

This is just my own experience however, and I'm still learning in this area too.

[Velo_Vandore]

Oh and I've seen people using a macro to communicate in party chat when they are raising. That's really useful to me so I'll be setting up something similar myself, i.e:

/macroicon Raise
/action Raise <t>
/p Casting (Raise) on <t>

you can auto-translate the (Raise) by typing "rai" then tap R1 or tab key and choose from the list of translator words. Other party members will see it in their own language.

[Velo_Vandore]

The killer is when both WHM blow their benediction all over one guy >_< I think without teamspeak on that's really hard to avoid.