From dps to healer or tank?

[Hrimfaxi]

Hi guys! I wanted to try something different other than being a dps. I have dragoon, ninja and bard at lvl 60. Would like to know tank or healer will be easier for me to learn. I will learn the rotations by hard but would like to know several tips as well. Thanks!

[16bitBounty]

Why not both? Neither are particularly difficult to learn and it's always good to have one of each available.

[Laerune]

General tips:
- Untill you learn the ropes, Warrior and Dark Knight are easier to tank with when it comes to AoE tanking.
- If you level Arcanist, you will unlock SCH and SMN, so if you want to heal and get another dps to max level, level Arcanist.
- When healing, if you want to have a easier time healing, go WHM.
- Tanks need Provoke/Rampart/Flash and other defensive skills. Healers need Swift Cast (THM skill) and Protect/Stoneskin/Cleric Stance (CNJ).
- When tanking expect alot of players resisting your leadership, they will pull or ignore marks. You will fail alot, but this is part of the learning proces.

Tank tips:
- Always use defensive skills when they are on a cooldown, wasting them is pointless.
- Always make sure the mobs face away from the group.
- When having issues with keeping agro, do not be afraid and ask players to use CC and Mark the mobs for easier agro management.
- Eat food that increases STR and VIT
- Put all your stat points into VIT
- Learn to rotate between agro building skills and the ones that give debuff/buffs to the tank and mobs.

Healer tips:
- Use the cooldowns like Rouse, Divine Seal etc.
- Learn to know when to use Eos or Selene, the same can also be said for AST cards, learn what they do and which card should be used for which class. Using Ewer for example on DRK is pointless, since Darkside negates the effect.
- Speak up and tell the tank to grab more or less, if you dont say anything, nothing will happen.
- Learn to control the pets, untill level 50 you can keep her on auto, but learning to control her at lower level will make it easier for you.
- When you have more then 80% mana and you know that it will stay like this, put on Cleric Stance and help the group by dealing damage.
- Put all your stat points into Mind.
- Same with tank, when leveling make sure you eat food with mind, piety and spell speed etc.

I hope these were usefull.

[Singularity]

For one starting as DPS, tanking will be closer to what you know than healing. The principle of rotating weaponskill combos on mobs will be the same as on your NIN and DRG. The only totally new thing to learn is mitigation.

[Yeol]

Try both. Level Tank and Healer to lvl 10~15 and enter guildhest. See which one you enjoyed most and take it from there. At least thats what I did.

[VanilleFang]

- When healing, if you want to have a easier time healing, go WHM.

I'd have to disagree with this. SCH is actually, by far, the easiest healer to use in the game if you are just learning the ropes. Yes, you have to use CNJ until level 15 anyway, but a SCH is far more lenient with its DPS and healing because of the fairy. So if you are coming from a DPS I would think that the most logical next step, if you want to transition to another role, would be SCH. In the early parts of the game it mostly functions as a DPS who can heal.

[SpiritMuse]

I'd have to disagree with this. SCH is actually, by far, the easiest healer to use in the game if you are just learning the ropes. Yes, you have to use CNJ until level 15 anyway, but a SCH is far more lenient with its DPS and healing because of the fairy. So if you are coming from a DPS I would think that the most logical next step, if you want to transition to another role, would be SCH. In the early parts of the game it mostly functions as a DPS who can heal.

CNJ/WHM is the most straightforward healer though. It's just powerful healing with no extra stuff like pet management or various different rng-dependent buffs.

[Averax]

Healing is like super easy.

If you don't like the responsibility of leading the group as the tank, healing is the way to go. You can just sit back and watch the health bars, and pew pew when you're bored.

[Nekotee]

I follow VanilleFang SCH is super easy as heal because at early level the fairy do everything and once gain heal power your shield let you pause

Whm is the easiest to learn because you start as bot heal (spam cure until the end of the fight)
And also the most boring because of that.

Ast is hard to learn but once you got it, you're unstoppable and you crush the other heal XD

[VanilleFang]

CNJ/WHM is the most straightforward healer though. It's just powerful healing with no extra stuff like pet management or various different rng-dependent buffs.

Yes, but if we're talking about transitioning from DPS to Healer, a SCH is the closest to a DPS class, and it has a huge amount of lenience when it comes to healer, far more so than a WHM. I understand that a WHM is "straightforward", but that doesn't make it the easiest.