Healer relegated on ps4

[albertopin]

I have my lvl 60 healer but i hardly use it. Even i gear him with the scraps of my greed rollling.
Im a whm but i feel that in ps4 its really difficult to play healer, as dps and tank yo focus on one single enemy, but as healer yo have to take care of 8 ppl that could be really far.
Any veteran healer who could help me improve the QoL of a ps4 healer.

[Tint]

press up and down to target the people via the party list. nothing easier than that.

there is also the semi target. let's say you move the "cursor" to the tank and press X. now the tank is your main target. then you move to another person in the partylist, but you don't press X, instead you use your healing spell. after that your target will jump back to the tank (your main target).

if the people are too far away that's THEIR problem. you have to position yourself (yes, healers have kind of positionals) in the middle of your party. inbetween the meeles and the ranged.
everyone can only follow one person. you follow the tank, everyone else has to follow you. of course you can do some steps to heal someone. but if it takes too long to find them - too bad for them.

[Dzian]

There's a lot you can do. You can set target filters if you want. I nearly always use enemies only. Doing this means left and right only ever targets mobs while up and down target party members

You can also sort the party list to put priority people less button presses away. I always use the order ot tank dps healers for example. This means that any tanks in the party are right under me in the party list. And any healers are right above me. (If you press up on yourself you go to the bottom of the list) this means that all key party members can be targeted in 1 or 2 button presses. The dps then sit in the middle 3 or 4 presses away.

You can use macros if you want. I have a couple on the expended hotbar one is simply /target <square> the the other is /assist <t>. These tend to be used more in 24 man stuff. So if the main tank is in a different alliance I can mark him with square and target him quick if his own healers go down. And the other just targets whatever my target is targetting. So if the boss is going after a random party/alliance member I just hit assist and I've targeted the person that has hate.

I've also changed R3 to execute macro 99. which is basically /target <f> quick and easy way to target whatever mob you have focussed. just press the right stick in.

It's really not slow or bad to play on game pad at all.

[Vaala]

These two nailed some of my best tips as well. I love healing and don't feel that PS4 slows me down at all with the sole exception of not having Mouse Over available.

Target Filters makes left/right for mobs and up/down for party as Dzian suggested. I will always Focus Target the boss to see moves and have the MT as my selected target. I use the "Semi Target" as Tint explains as well all the time.

Alliance targeting is a bit tougher, but there isn't anything so difficult where it is too much of a hinderance

[Mirch]

up/down lol

u can adjust the party list order, i always have tank on top so i press down 2 times and he's on target