Recently I've decided to seriously invest some time into leveling a healing class so I can have a wide repertoire of skills for any occasion since I already have a DPS and tank at a reasonably high level. I chose White Mage because I wanted the lvl50 job gear because it's awesome. It started out easily enough, I had already leveled to 15 on my own so me and a group of friends decided to level our classes to 30 at first. So from 15-30 it was smooth sailing since the possibility of a party wipe was rather inconsequential. However, from 30-50 was a whole other story as my friends were unavailable so I had to run PUGs.

What I ran into in those few dozen runs were tanks pulling large groups and not holding or not using defensive buffs, ranged DPS standing right beside the mob packs (sometimes right beside the tank) and DPS in general pulling things they shouldn't. The worst was the run where we wiped in Sastasha of all places due to the tank wanting to do a large pull and losing it on the first heal and I just couldn't keep up with everyone taking damage at the same time.

So why am I posting this? Because I wanted to give my heartfelt appreciation to all you full-time healer mains out there. I knew healing could be a bothersome job with all the blockheads out there, but I never realized just how bad it really was until I ran the gamut myself. You guys either have the patience of a saint or a masochistic streak a mile wide to put up that on a regular basis. So from one full-time blockhead/part-time healer: Thank you for all you do.