"Get in the circle healer!"

[Saiyakupo]

Everyone plays differently than the next person.
I myself as a white mage stand in the circle, wearing all vit accessories, and take all of the beatings. Often my health starts dropping to dangerous levels within less than a second, but that's why we have 2 other healers on the team, and why I have attunement, and why I have tonnes more cooldowns to go with that. They stand back and heal the ish out of me while I stand in my green ground and/or kite the melee around in the circle when attunement is down. By the time all of my cooldowns are used, the enemies' healers or some dps should be dead, thus making it easier to survive. That is if my team is good, of course.
It's all up to how everyone plays together, whether I (and therefore we) survive or not.

[rex1976]

it's too situational to make a general rule about in or out of the circle. solo healer i'd never go into the circle even with my stats spent on vit and full vit acc. 2 healers one in one out is better than both in usually but not always. if the second healer didnt join as healer and just switched, has low hp, he probably can't be counted on in wich case 2 out might be better. 3 healers all 3 in always i'd say, but i'm sure a situation where that's not best could be pointed out to me.

to the op just play how you think is best. if someone is telling you to do something you think is stupid... don't do it. if you're never in the circle you're probably not always doing the right thing, if you're always in the circle you're definitely not always doing the right thing.

[kensatsu]

anyway maybe the one asking to be on the circle din't know what he is talking about too,
i encounter a player asking us to be in the circle when we was defending and try to not allow the enemy to regroup (the flag was already win)
well the player asking that din't know what is the situation and when we have to be on the flag.
It's easy to understand: we have to be more player than the enemy on the circle to win the flag : healer can also do buff skill on the flag and have a good defense.
as said before a solo heal don't have to, if you get on the flag directly ,you will be the first focused, it's maybe better to be behind your group in this situation, with 3 healers situation you can be on the flag circle, you still can kite enemy on the circle when you are focused and receive heal from others healer, use your benediction or your fairy or use harmony as panic CD while kitting.
with 2 healer, maybe one on the flag and the other behind would be a good idea : the one in the flag is more use as bait, while the other heal him behind^^.

when the flag is win : i like to use my whm to go to bait enemy when them is not full group yet, i use sleep to harasse and try to bait them earlier to attack us^^ (but it's a other thing), and can be risky, but i like it, a healer is a good bait, because them want to focus it first