I don't see any harm in adding healing dummies. You could also practice on your chocobo (and use the battle log to see how much it did).

Quote Originally Posted by laurtias View Post
Sprout healer over here!
I enjoy doing this as well, but targeting Non-party players on console is a nightmare. Especially when there are many people or enemies and I'm trying to single-target heal someone.
I've tried messing with my targeting settings,but must be doing something wrong.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can work around this?
Other suggestions: I have R3 set to target target's target, so if the NPC is tanking, it's easy to swap (also works great for FATEs, or general purpose duty healing).
Alternatively, target nothing, zoom in close so that the NPC is the main/only targetable thing in you view and press X (or whatever "select" button).