"Get in the circle healer!"

[DividedSky]

I read some of these posts... I think the discussion should be "Get in the circle... period". People need to keep in mind that you can have up to 4 players in the circle that add to your ability to "cap" the flag. If you have 3 and the enemy has 4 then they win and they cap it over you. With this point being made even if you have all ranged dps on the team SOMEONE... at least 4.... need to be in the circle... always.... otherwise you might have a 5 minute fight against the enemy and tthey'll hold the flag the entire time b/c they fight with 4 in the circle. It is incredibly frustrating to see the flag get capped because people on your team do not understand this.

[kensatsu]

I test a cure 2 with my healer accesories, and tank accesoires, i loose 150 hp by cure II with the tank accesoires,
this loose of cure = the value of +1000 hp on your healer, for me not a died healer don't heal anything. add food and your healer have 5200 HP.

Do you have or not to be in circle ? when we are 3 healers why not, but when you are 2 two, if the other healer get on the group, it's nice to be back heal the other healer, to make them over focus only one healer, if them don't find you fast them loose time for nothing^^.
it's realy efficient to want healer in the circle when them is 3/4 till we can do that offcourse

[Trypich]

who cares if they are being locked down?

I do. That's why I'm a healer.

I will do everything I can to protect every player. Any strategy that compromises my freedom to act is a bad strategy. Period.

[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