Wesk Alber's poll on Jobs

[Renathras]

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I mean, I don't know personally. I actually fit Snow's description of a SCH main (will flex to all other healers but prefer AST the least), though I more consider myself a WHM main, personally, there's probably something to that.

I feel like a lot of people will flex to a second one, but not necessarily any more than that. My experience with PF is that I'm often the only Healer that will or even can flex. Others often don't even have a second Healer Job leveled. Though most who have more than one have WHM + something (usually SGE), and are okay swapping between those if it's needed, though they don't prefer it.

I feel this is a case of the company you keep, maybe. Like I'd guess you tend to run into a lot more hardcore Savage/Ultimate people whereas I tend to run into a lot more low-to-midcore Savage/Extreme/toe dipping people.

I can play all Healers that aren't AST in any content. I can probably play AST in Extremes, I just feel competent with it and over-weave all over the place in the burst window. While that's PROBABLY only a negligible damage loss, it /feelsbad, so I stick with only doing 4/24 mans or 8 man normals with it when I get the itch, which isn't often.

[Sebazy]

An alternate way of thinking about this I guess... Have you raided with some regularity with a healer main that was entirely unwilling and unable to flex if even within the shield/pure healer split?

Personally I have to go back to ARR + Gordias and in fairness, the Gordias one was because I was covering a prog team's SCH for a week. The content was too rough to start switching jobs multiple times mid prog when the race was on at the time.

[Renathras]

An alternate way of thinking about this I guess... Have you raided with some regularity with a healer main that was entirely unwilling and unable to flex if even within the shield/pure healer split?

Personally I have to go back to ARR + Gordias and in fairness, the Gordias one was because I was covering a prog team's SCH for a week. The content was too rough to start switching jobs multiple times mid prog when the race was on at the time.

No. Well, YES insomuch as I've had an experience like it. But I haven't really.

I don't raid in general, and I do PF. Closest I've had is being a sub for my FC's C Static, and the other Healer of the group was a SGE-only Healer. And the one I was subbing in for was a WHM-only Healer.

EDIT:

(It occurs to me, that for a scrub casual, I tend to have more in common with the more hardcore types in this community. Other than in mindset. Funny that, eh?)

[IceBlueNinja]

From my experience with healer mains in savage

AST mains will generally flex to WHM but rarely flex to shield healers unless they miss noct
WHM mains will flex to SGE but won’t flex to SCH or AST
SCH mains will flex to all other healers but prefer AST the least
SGE mains will flex to WHM or SCH but not AST

As an EX ast main that loved noct sect I actually would go ast over whm or sch anyday. sch is my worst healer in any content and whm is simply just boring. But if a pf wanna sch then ill do ast so not a big lost for me even though playing cards now feel so unawarding unlike stormblood and heck even sbh still feel some what ok to get seals for divination, Ew have me be forgetting sometimes cards exist since lady and lord got rework back to stormblood effects but with aoe now on em since both those use to give the 8% buff in sbh