People telling me how to play healer

[Automedius]

git gud lol

[Silver-Strider]

If you are an AST and you are not using your cards, you're basically gimping yourself back to Discount WHM status.
You might as well pack up the cards and just be a WHM at that point as your offering nothing, or even less, than a WHM playing as you are.
This is a simple case of learning your job but since you've already dismissed this with your "My sub, I'll play how I want" mentality this thread is meaningless as you just ousted yourself as a bad AST in practically everyone's eyes both on these forums and everyone you'll ever play with.
You're not going to get any sympathy here because those players telling you to use your cards are right.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I wish people on both camps would stop taking his statement so grossly out of context. All I really read into it was that he doesn't seem to like the healer DPS meta direction that the game is taking but seems uncertain at this point how to marginalize it without causing backlash (i.e "if we remove Cleric Stance people will wig out", which is of course true).

I do have to wonder if the shoe was on the other foot though, and YoshiP happened to say he liked the flexibility that healers have on contributing DPS and that he wanted to find more ways to incorporate that into content...would we still be seeing so much community outrage like this? Is this only happening because people have felt like they've been playing the game "the way it's meant to be played" the entire time only to maybe find out that it wasn't exactly intended and now might be changed?

I guarantee if he supported the DPS meta, people who be furious-- possibly more so. That mentality caters closer to the raid community, which people have... shall we say, varying opinions towards. That being said, I agree. My interpretation of his comments were healers should focus on healing first and he, personally, dislikes the push towards more DPS.

[Accelerating]

Wow, all this toxicity in this thread. This is exactly the reason why there are so few healers in DF. You guys make me sick!

[Lilseph]

[bswpayton]

Wow, all this toxicity in this thread. This is exactly the reason why there are so few healers in DF. You guys make me sick!

have you read the pfs out there nothing reallly surprises me , I use cleric myself because I just enjoy dpsing as a healer but there are times where I just cant, same with astro cards sometimes its hard to joggle the cards, I think alot of players just only view content through their own personal prospective

[eaudaemon]

Wow, all this toxicity in this thread. This is exactly the reason why there are so few healers in DF. You guys make me sick!

Whoa, I guess you were expecting an "Oh poor you..." answer when you made this thread.

Our mistake, we thought you needed advice, our bad for misunderstanding so... "Poor you..." well try to get you a toy in front of walmart later.

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

As someone who levels all job roles (and mains AST as healer for the time being), this is a very difficult issue we're straddling. On the one hand, I've been a nervous/anxious healer and it took quite a long time to get comfortable weaving DPS in between heals and managing MP. On the other, as someone who's cleared those hurdles and has a better grasp how to play the class...

Having said that, "you don't pay my sub fee" is a very adversarial stance to take when you're participating in group content. Your sub fee entitles you access to the game servers and nothing else, and people need to start realizing this or they're going to continue having a bad time.

Pure and simple, managing your cards as AST is very not-difficult whatsoever. I'll even break it down here for you:

1. Draw
2. If Balance, hang on to it for later with Spread, if not, skip to step 3
3. Hit Redraw
4. If Balance, hang on to it for later with Spread, if not, skip to step 5
5. Hit Royal Road to set up your enhancement and/or start Draw's cooldown
6. Go back to step 1 once Draw is off cooldown

This is a very basic way to manage your cards and can be relied upon if your attention span is short (like mine is) or you're distracted healing/dpsing. You can build off from this or deviate as necessary, such as waiting on an Arrow to boost action speed, a Ewer if you or your cohealer are low on MP, etc.

[Kahnom]

Pathetic..

[Lilseph]

Uh, guys. Check his posting history, he is most likely trolling. Just giggle and move on.