A summary of healer issues

[Sebazy]

Are you a bad healer in a bad party? Expect to spend all your time healing and praying you don't run out of mana because they're taking so much damage and you have a hard time deciding where to prioritize your healing so you're probably just spamming your AoE heals.

Honestly, this angle is overrated.

Healing people through their mistakes honestly doesn't make that big a difference in mainstream endgame content. And by the time it really does in Extremes and Savage, said mistakes are every bit as likely going to get them insta killed irrespective of how much healing you throw at them.

A truly bad healer is more likely to be dropping the ball and failing to cast anything rather than overhealing to the point of running out of MP, but either way you'll usually find mechanics getting them long before they run out of resources at this point in the expansion. You can verify this by looking at 24 man logs and looking at the MP resource trace of the underperforming healers. Even sifting through some absolute stinkers that I've endured, I'm struggling to find anyone that genuinely ran out of MP without themselves dieing despite the carnage going on around them.

Where it does start to really affect you as a healer is when you have to start hard casting raises. But until that point gets reached, eh, honestly makes less of a difference than many would expect.

[ty_taurus]

Honestly, this angle is overrated.

Healing people through their mistakes honestly doesn't make that big a difference in mainstream endgame content. And by the time it really does in Extremes and Savage, said mistakes are every bit as likely going to get them insta killed irrespective of how much healing you throw at them.

A truly bad healer is more likely to be dropping the ball and failing to cast anything rather than overhealing to the point of running out of MP, but either way you'll usually find mechanics getting them long before they run out of resources at this point in the expansion. You can verify this by looking at 24 man logs and looking at the MP resource trace of the underperforming healers. Even sifting through some absolute stinkers that I've endured, I'm struggling to find anyone that genuinely ran out of MP without themselves dieing despite the carnage going on around them.

Where it does start to really affect you as a healer is when you have to start hard casting raises. But until that point gets reached, eh, honestly makes less of a difference than many would expect.

I find that, when healing in harder content, examples of failing to heal is often more about misjudging the timing. Like seeing a cast bar, knowing your party needs a heal, and deciding to finish another cast you already started because you think your cast will end fast enough to weave another heal, or perhaps cast an Afflatus Rapture. Or things like that.