Why you should play a healer!

[Hamma87]

Hey all

As a follow up to my 'why you should try tanking' which I'll link here,
I've done an article on why you should play a healer!

https://thehenonline.com/why-you-sho...-healing-a-try

Let me know what you think!

[Anienai]

I like it, but you I think you might be hiding the real reason you like healing.

[Obsidia]

I avoid healing due to the stress lol. It's a game, so I want to have fun and relax. There is nothing relaxing to me about healing, especially when an overgeared tank pulls adds wall to wall and I'm still lvling up. I'm just not ready for that sort of thing. A lot of the time when I say that, the tank ignores me and does it anyway, telling me to 'git gud'. You still have like 200+ more of an ilvl than I do, it isn't a matter of skill at this point. >_>

I've finished certain dungeon runs and am left shaking. I know it sounds so stupid and pathetic, maybe I am haha. But...well, it is what it is. It gave me an appreciation for healers though so I commend them more often than I once did. Maybe I need more practice, maybe it will never be for me. I used to be very nervous about tanking as well, but that went infinitely better for me than healing. Guess I just can't handle it =p

[Lannybaby]

I avoid healing due to the stress lol. It's a game, so I want to have fun and relax.

This is my reasoning. In fact, I'm raising my healers just to get them to 70 and drop them. I always get these types of tanks (sometimes damage dealers) that want me to dps, so I dps. Then I get tanks that want me to stop it and just stick to healing. When I dps, I get yelled at and no one's even died yet, even the ones standing in the bad stuff because I do my best to keep them up. When I don't dps, I still get yelled at: "don't just stand there, do something!" <-- this was the most recent one. I don't know where they come from, maybe they're in a cult. I don't know how I attract them so often, either. You'd think they'd be 1 in a 100 or 1 in 1000, but I get them so often it's ridiculous.

[gumas]

Almost instant queue, this point alone make me play as healer.

[Seoulstar]

It's simple, it's fun and you can play god~

[Zojha]

The answer to every "why you should try..." question is: Because you just might like it.

If you need a power argument, do some raid parses with a group without a healer, then do some raid parses with a group with a healer and realize that the gaping difference between the two is a direct result of healer power (It has to be - you kept everything else the same after all).
The power healers have is pretty nuts, albeit largely invisible to the healer and it unfortunately can't be stacked either - more healers only spread that power among more heads, they don't add to it.

It's similar as with raise. On first glance, raise seems like a very bad spell, but it's actually hugely powerful, because the person raised would simply have zero further contribution if not raised and everything they do after being raised can be directly attributed to the raise and thus its power. Preventing people from dying in the first place works on a similar principle - Everything they do after the point where they would have normally died can be directly attributed to the heals they received. And like with raise being useless if nobody dies, heals are useless if nobody would die without them.

Still, with unavoidable damage, people are bound to die at some point and that's where healers cash in hard in the power department.

[Tridus]

I avoid healing due to the stress lol. It's a game, so I want to have fun and relax.

Makes sense. Although, last night I got a trial roulette Susano where one healer died five times and the other was going OOM because for some reason he was taking forever to die.

I was on RDM. I was very, very busy. Wasn't exactly the relaxing time one hopes to get while on a DPS break.

[Risvertasashi]

I avoid healing due to the stress lol. It's a game, so I want to have fun and relax. There is nothing relaxing to me about healing, especially when (snip)

I definitely feel the complaints about stress. Pretty much any time the party is derpy or near suicidal, that falls on the healers shoulders. And there are definitely times where I'm thinking, "I so don't want to do stuff with DF/PF right now."

But! It can also be very rewarding. I made another attempt at the Ivalice raid last night. Predictably, the party wiped a lot on the second boss, and even between wipes, there were a lot of deaths and mechanics slip ups that, needless to say, made my life (and the other healers' lives) hell.

But, we eventually got it. And oneshot the final boss (though with deaths). Got a lot of people their clears. Seeing that through to the end... at least to me, felt very rewarding. And I won't lie, I'm a sucker for comms, so when most of the party comms you... that feels great, heh. Anyways. Stress/Pressure is definitely a thing, but there is another side to it.

OP's article alludes to this but doesn't outright mention it.

[miraidensetsu]

Great points. Congrats for the blog post. I would add that I always heal because I like to help (and healer classes/jobs are the best for it) and I don't like to worry about my HP when leveling.

The best moments for me is when I actually have to use all of my toolkit or even improvise to keep the party alive. After the party survive a situation like that, I feel myself like a hero.