Low level Healing is Boring

[Lavieh]

Some people have mentioned it and some people have mentioned against it but:

CNJ is probably the funnest class when it comes to low level grinding. Learn how to DPS while healing now before it becomes a lot harder to do later. If you learn how to do it efficiently earlier on you will just become a bigger asset to your team come end game stuff.

[Donjo]

Some people have mentioned it and some people have mentioned against it but:

CNJ is probably the funnest class when it comes to low level grinding. Learn how to DPS while healing now before it becomes a lot harder to do later. If you learn how to do it efficiently earlier on you will just become a bigger asset to your team come end game stuff.

It's too bad then that SCH is infinitely more suited to doing DPS at endgame :/

[Lavieh]

It's too bad then that SCH is infinitely more suited to doing DPS at endgame :/

It is pretty sad , WHM can still deal some reasonable dmg. Lucrezia's and Collisions WHMs do above 120 DPS each encounter... But that is the higher end things of course, I'd like to think that most WHM's have a 50 or so DPS potential per encounter, just takes a little more focus from them.

[Keltraeng]

Couldn't agree more to the op

[Steady]

Well.. I can only speak for when I'm tanking Low Level dungeons on my lv 50 tank, but tanks can take alot more damage than they actually choose to, personally I speed run low level dungeons, grabbing pulls by twos whenever possible. So if you wanna stand there and spam cure 1, I can handle that for ya.

But yeah, dungeons 1-50 are supposed to teach you party mechanics. If you want to just heal, well no one is gonna kick ya from the group... but when you get into end game, more is expected. Just like TANKS aren't allowed to just Tank, then need to be bringing some DPS in too. SE didn't give you Aero and Stone and Cleric Stance just for you to take a nap.

Hell most Scholars can let their fairy cure entire dungeons while they DPS.

[Tex_Mex]

This game is just really boring, as a whole, at lower levels.

Don't get me wrong, i love FFXIV, but it really does not open up to become something amazing till at or near lvl 50.
This is because of how slow abilities are fed to you through the levelling process. This also has the side effect of making low level content seem really boring.

Take DRG for example: Here are the rotations you use while levelling
Lvl1-3: True Thrust Spam
Lvl4-7: True/Vorpal Thrust
Lvl8-11: Impulse Drive spam (now that is has no directional requirements)
Lvl12-25: Heavy Thrust - Impulse Drive Spam
Lvl 26-29: Heavy Thrust - True/Vorpal/Full Thrust Spam
Lvl 30: Heavy Thrust - Phlebotomize - True/Vorpal/Full Thrust Spam
From there it slowly gets more complicated as you get the rest of the impulse drive combo and your jumps.

But because of this system, you do not get to do a FULL Dragoon rotation until lvl 50..... and this applies to almost every job..... lamesauce

[DarkerOrange]

But IMO, that system of slowly building your class up is a good balance. Some jobs might be ok with having all your skills dumped on you at once (healers), but tanks and the more complex dps jobs would probably struggle with people not actually knowing what skills to use when.

If you get your skills as you level you have a bit of time to understand how they fit in.

Sure, maybe sometimes it feels a little TOO slow, but I would rather too slow than gaining multiple skills at once and having to work out how they fit in with the last batch I got.

[Yumi_umi]

It's too bad then that SCH is infinitely more suited to doing DPS at endgame :/

Probs will be changed in 3.0 lol
Ast might be the top dog once it lands. Them cards look dangerous.

[DududeDude]

Probs will be changed in 3.0 lol
Ast might be the top dog once it lands. Them cards look dangerous.

DoTs are just particularly good for throwing in during a couple free GCDs, and provide a lot of potency relative to the time you spend casting them. Unless astrologians have a similar amount of potency that can be put in a small amount of cast time it's unlikely to change things much.

[Staris]

The PvP nerf to Cleric Stance happened because SE determined that healer DPS was simply too powerful in this context. If they ever decide that healer DPS is too powerful in PvE, then they'll probably happily do the same thing. I'd argue that they've already made an attempt to nerf healer DPS in relation to the Final Coil by barely increasing the Accuracy given to healer gear.

Except in First coil we had no accuracy gear, cept crafted (ACC at that really). (and could miss)
They added it to gear in coil 2, but still needed food or novus to cap. (minor buff)
In coil 3 they made it crazy crazy easy with equivalent 110 crafted gear. (huge buff)

If you don't think full crafted left / right side (and accuracy on the SCHs) was used in worlds first, you might not understand this game.