Quote Originally Posted by Shanst View Post
As someone new to the game, and have healed in plenty of more hectic games (plus I primarily love PVP and this is really the first MMO I've focused on PVE), I decided to level a WHM (which I'm currently still doing). It was to my surprise that I realized we're not really a healer, but rather a dps with heals. I've gotten used to pressing 1 button over and over and refreshing a dot, but I can tell you the game play isn't very engaging. Big incoming aoe damage? Medica II and let the hot top people before the next one because you know that's like 30 seconds away. Go back to spamming 1 ability again....

I've become a sadist HOPING people suck and get hit by things so I can do this thing called heal.
Not even. You have to cast medica 2. Sometimes I'll wait until my assize is back up before I'll give the group any aoe healing. Not really necessary to cast medica 2 most of the time. All about the dps uptime.

Why if SE actually wants healers to heal, they need to change their encounter design mentality. All they are doing now is ruining healers.