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.

[Moogly]

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.

You're going to pull a lot of hate on you !!!

[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.

[MoroMurasaki]

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.

To be fair I was going OOM because he was taking forever to die and people were eating avoidable damage like potato chips. The manashifts were much appreciated though <3

I heal because I'm a control freak and healers tend to have the most control over an encounter. Don't get me wrong, in a great group every player is quite important. In a weak group though? No one can carry like a healer.

I feel like this is the reason I never understood everyone's Shinryu frustration back when 4.0 launched. Yeah, I saw a couple wipes, but virtually no disbands. You can make up more ground than any other role by far as a healer. People failing mechanics? Get out those raises and AoE heals. Tanks not tanking? Throw up shields and/or regens on top threat target. DPS not tanking too? Throw up regens/shields on yourself and hope you don't get tankbusted. DPS not meeting a check? Do more DPS.

I'm all about utility roles (love having RDM/BRD/SMN/PLD in my group) but to me healers are just pure utility. The multitude of directions we can go makes it always exciting and, as I said, you can be a world first progression raiding SAM but you still can't carry like my mediocre WHM butt.

[Tridus]

To be fair I was going OOM because he was taking forever to die and people were eating avoidable damage like potato chips. The manashifts were much appreciated though <3

Wasn't criticising. When the other healer dies five times and he is just not dying very fast, it's going to be a thing.

[MoroMurasaki]

Wasn't criticising. When the other healer dies five times and he is just not dying very fast, it's going to be a thing.

Oh I didn't take it that way, just taking advantage of the opportunity to complain! Lol

[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.