Coming to understand WHM in endgame

[Sida]

The post you have been reading are largely boasting. Not necessarily unrealistic boasting, but they come from the standpoint where everything works, everyone knows their steps, no one takes damage they shouldn't. While this is one way to play the game, get a perfect static and blast forward, it's by no means the only one. Healer is largely reactive role, more so when playing with people who need to be reacted to. I find fun in my healer role playing in chaotic 24-man groups and taking my chances in random parties. I've been in Orbonne runs where I've had to pull every healing trick in my sleeves (and few I didn't know I have) to make sure my party, and in some case, the neighbouring party whose both healers stay dead more time than alive, can stand up long enough to get past things. No time to consider what I should or shouldn't use as healer, as long as it increases right amount of health in right place at right time and I can cast it it's good. Question is how you want to play the game, not how the forum tells you how you should play it.

Disclaimer for last sentence, by that I don't mean one should be any less than they can be, nor do I endorse the "healing only healers". I'm just saying there can be challenges for healer where they can be more than just glorified dps, even if that's the picture meta-people like to paint.