DEV REQUEST: Healing Dummies!

[Kazrah]

I know, seems a bit silly given how much of a mundane chore healing can be to the point of doing damage just out of boredom, but if healers are going to get more healing abilities that can't be self-target or will only work upon healing an injured ally in combat like the new White Mage healing skills, then why not have something like a healing dummy that can be used to gauge healing for those abilities?

Fairly simple measure; just have a healable dummy that resets itself to half health that puts you in combat upon healing it. And afterward, your friendly neighborhood White Mages will finally be able to know how much their Plenary Indulgence spell heals for (because I've asked nearly a dozen WHM mains, and they don't even know).

[laurtias]

This. Would be. AMAZING.

Yes please.

[Iscah]

Yes please! Although I would also suggest that they are able to take damage, and don’t reset on ‘death’, because I really need to be able to test out my Raise macro!

[worldofneil]

your friendly neighborhood White Mages will finally be able to know how much their Plenary Indulgence spell heals for

3 stacks is the same potency as Cure 1 (so just cast that on yourself and see what you get for normal/crit)

Divide by 3 for 1 stack, multiply that by 2 for 2 stacks

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Healing dummies?

LOL you can’t cure stupid!

Just kidding. Interesting idea.

[Dustytome]

It'd be great for single target heals. They'd probably need something like individual training ground instances for practicing group healing since the dummies would have to be linked to you for aoe spells.

[NephthysVasudan]

Honestly as much as it would be.....a slightly useful tool...no dummies can match the real experience of running a dungeon.
Healers learn to heal by trial and by fire. Get with friends...and just get going....its the best way...no substitute for dummies.

Even then....go out in the over-world and camp fates...heal outside them...see how much an impact you have....

I Stalker heal as well - follow someone..just patch them up as you go...you'll figure it out what works and doesn't.
Honestly I'd rather be able to test limit breaks.

[Dualgunner]

Healing dummies?

LOL you can’t cure stupid!

Just kidding. Interesting idea.

I see what you did there.

[Sylvina]

I had a healing dummy in a dungeon once, who wouldn't use half his healing skills, is this what you mean?

[Kazrah]

I had a healing dummy in a dungeon once, who wouldn't use half his healing skills, is this what you mean?

I've definitely had those, but I'm referring to more beneficial dummies.

Healers learn to heal by trial and by fire. Get with friends...and just get going....its the best way...no substitute for dummies.

Technically you could argue that for DPS as well given how easy most DPS jobs are these days, yet they still get target dummies (special snowflakes that they are....).

I'd agree with the LB test suggestion, but I feel like we'd be better off having a LB option for group pose, where we could do something like "/gposelimit" and it would do gpose with the limit break for whatever job we're on.