Which healer to heal which tank?

[Macmaxi]

My statics current setup is PLD/WAR and SCH/WHM, pretty straight forwarded, but we had an issue of our tanks dying and now people seemed to argue about which healer should heal which tank.


While i have been a healer for a long time, i'm unaware of how healing exactly works for the different classes in XIV, so is anyone able to give me a clear insight which healer should be assigned to which tank and why?


Our warrior said this:

[2] nah thing is that ppl think that due to defiance giving +20% healing that the shields do more on a warrior
[2] which isnt even true
[2] it doesnt matter if i get a 20% bigger shield if i take 20% more dmg than a pld/drk
[2] and since i spend more time out of defiance than in it would be simply smarter to put the shields on the pld, who spends 90% of his time in shield oath to maximize their effectiveness. while the whm has the same output on me and the pld
[2] and quite simply a whm has an easier time healing a warrior than a sch would

[Nigela]

On raids as a sch i was always healing war, whm --> pld/drk. Never had problems with this setup.

[karateorangutang]

Well if we wanna be technical then actually WHM gets more mileage from WAR. Since a plethora of SCH's heals are abilities and not spells then they don't benefit from the 20% from defiance. Since almost all of WHM's primary heals are spells WAR get more mileage out of the cures.

[FoxyAreku]

Scholar heals tanks almost exclusively with occassional succors to help the non-tanks, whitemage heals everyone else with occassional regens on tanks.

AST depends on what the other healer is.

I don't know why a group would divide tank healing, unless the tanks are just stupidly far apart for some reason. Sounds rather silly.

[Myrhn]

As a sch I always healing the war is we divide the healing, and thats with war tanking in the dps stance.

[ExiaQuanta]

Well, in the case of shields and warrior, while its true that warrior takes 20% more damage but when they combine defiance with convalescence (and maaaybe montra) it is actually pretty OP with Scholar lol. In A3S, if our scholar crits an adlo on our warrior with some healing buffs, and spreads the shield with tactical deployment, it can mitigate the first half of phase 1.

Though in the end it shouldn't really matter which healer gets which tank, if tanks and healers are communicating during a fight, shouldn't really matter.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

It hardly matters for white mages or Scholar which tank to heal. This topic has been discussed thoroughly a couple of times now, you'll probably get some results if you use the search function.

For Astrologian, however, it'll have a slight edge when healing the warrior; Synastry.

[Veve]

Me and my WHM switch it up a lot, in AS1 I'll heal the DRK/PLD (I'm SCH), the WHM will heal the WAR. In AS2 I'll heal the WAR and the WHM heals the PLD/DRK and in AS3 I heal the WAR.

I think a lot of it is situational, and I don't think there is a right or wrong way to do it. Just whatever everyone's comfortable with. Communication and synergy between tanks and healer is absolutely crucial.

[DarkerOrange]

WHM heals both tanks, SCH DPSs haha.

[zuzu-bq]

Shielding healers (SCH and Nocturnal ASTs) usually heals WAR since Defiance will bring our the best on their shielding spells; its not only about old and new Lustrate. WHMs and Diurnal ASTs tend to get the tank with better defense out of the two tanks on their party since they'll be mostly assigned to heal AoEs mostly alone. WHM don't have much that easier time to heal WAR, he'll be overhling a lot because of Defiance most of the times. On the other side, shields won't over heal as much. Each player is a player and each party is a party, you need a sync between your healers and tanks so just chat and coordinate accordingly, there is no cake recipe for it.