Which healer job are you? Why?

[Necairus]

Just like what the title says, why did you choose your job for your main?

Sch is mine, in arr I liked the idea of the shields, the pets helping out while my dots dpsed everything, and it made lower level dungeons super easy.

Heavensward, I went blm

I just started stormblood, not sure what to go yet.

[Mimilu]

In ARR, I started out as a WHM but switched to SCH because, to me, it felt fare more interesting, focusing more on DPSing, controlling their fairy, and casting shields before big attacks.
I switched to AST in HW because I enjoy playing as buffing classes in other games and it had some interesting tools like Synastry and Lightspeed, plus the Sects let me fill in SCH or WHM's slot.
In SB, I'm still an AST but I haven't gotten to leveling the other two healers to 70 yet (both are still in the 60-62 range), so it could change.

[Erakir]

White Mage ever since I saw this piece of art after we bought FFT.



Not sure what exactly it was about that pic, but that was when I switched from wizard-roles in games to healer-roles. I played a wizard in Everquest, but multiboxed (hydra'd on my server, dagnabbit) others' paladins, clerics, warriors, mages, and enchanters, so we generally got to see a lot of gameplay as the various classes in raids.

Getting to play a White Mage itself in this game and FFXI was just icing on the cake.

That said, I've always enjoyed HoT based healing in games with them. They were good when they started to exist in Everquest. I happened to play a druid in WoW because my friends said the guild they started was low on healers and didn't have a druid - ended up loving it, even after I had a resto shaman alt I raided on as well. The rolling HoTs just felt so natural to me.

When I started here, combination of White Mage aesthetic + it having more of a HoT style approach (compared to SCH at the time, at least) naturally had me lean towards it. I've simply continued since then.

I like healing a bunch regardless of the class/job, but it's really just the aesthetic and typical imagery "White Mage" conjures that tips it over the edge. Chances are I'll remain a WHM simply due to that, even if a job comes along that really pushes the HoT aspect more than what we've got right now. At this point, the familiarity helps set it in stone, too.

[Sebazy]

<3 FFT, that series had some amazing art!

Back on topic, In the past I gravitated more towards support/buffing roles rather than raw healers, spending rather significant amounts of time as a Shaman in Everquest and WoW and a Bard in FFXI (Although I dragged along the obligatory cleric alt to raids ofc).

FFXIV's didn't really fit the bill for me whereas the healers are somewhat more multidimensional by comparison so that's where I've ended up. As above, coming from the EQ shaman basis, I'm particularly comfortable rolling and maintaining hots and as such, WHM was the best fit for me when ARR hit. It seemed to be a reoccurring theme that my raid team would be missing a SCH come progression time though and it was all too frequent that I'd get called upon to cover that role instead. Not a particularly natural fit but needs must and so forth.

[eisman22500]

I fell in love with the WHM from past FF games and didn't have RDM when the game first came out lol. But after playing WHM since the get go, I haven't felt that love for the other healers really. Trying to level them up right now so still giving them a chance.

[Tridus]

I started off as BLM. Wanted to play a healer as I had in other games, and picked up WHM first (since at the time it was the only healer I could pick up without having to level a DPS class to 30). Fell in love with the healing kit style. Tried out the other healers. AST I can enjoy, especially in Diurnal because it plays a lot like WHM with cards. SCH just isn't for me, I don't like managing pets and I don't enjoy shielding as much as healing. Fun to watch a good SCH do their thing, but I'd rather be the other healer in that combo.

[HyoMinPark]

I roll Nocturnal AST, and I have started really growing partial to SCH. Mostly because I enjoy mitigating with shields as opposed to using HoTs (though HoTs certainly have their uses that shields cannot provide, don’t get me wrong!). With regards to AST, I love the card aspect of the job. It was honestly what drew me to the job in the first place, and I have loved it ever since.

The more I play SCH, the more I find that I enjoy managing my fairy, and I like that I have to sort of plan out my shielding and AOE heals, since SCH doesn’t have spammable Medica/Helios equivalents (I don’t really count Succor as an equivalent to those two spells). I like that I have to actually think “I need to save Indom for this mechanic here” or “I need to pre-cast shields before this mechanic to mitigate as much damage as possible”. Also, I really like Emergency Tactics + Succor for some reason lol.

[Gemina]

I main both SCH and WHM, and I also progress the MSQ with both of them. It would honestly be shorter to explain why I didn't choose AST.

I came into the game planning to be a healer, and chose SCH to be my main job. Both the playstyle and the lore interested me the most. Thing is, I was also really nervous about the responsibility the role entailed, and I hadn't touched any games since I retired from FFXI so long ago, which added to this anxiety. This made SCH the perfect choice because I got to spend my first 30 levels as an ACN and get a feel for things before actually having to heal parties. Even as DPS, my first Sastasha run was one the most nerve wrecked moments I can recall, and I was with three FC mates. I couldn't even think about healing a PUG.

So around level 26 or so, I knew I had to level CNJ in order to get my SCH soulstone. Well... I played CNJ and fell in love with it! It might have been because I was finally healing and doing what I want to do in the game, but I think there was more to it than that. The decision was made to level both jobs and also make it part of my character's lore as she has a dual personality that manifest in each discipline. WHM has been particularly rewarding because 56+ it becomes a dungeon mower and dungeons are what I like doing the most.

[Anienai]

This toon - AST
Alt toon - SCH

Neither are my main, but I do like to heal with both. I loathe whm.

[Cynfael]

I am every healer. I play AST primarily for Savage, WHM for dungeon trash murder, and SCH for Savage when not filling as AST.