Healing is NOT easy!!!!

[Cabalabob]

Let me see if I have this straight.

You did savage, the hardest content in the game bar ultimates/criterion.

on a job you don’t normally play, on a role that isn’t your main.

Late at night while tired.

AND you cleared?

And this is your argument to show that healing isn’t easy?

[IDontPetLalas]

Let me see if I have this straight.

You did savage, the hardest content in the game bar ultimates/criterion.

on a job you don’t normally play, on a role that isn’t your main.

Late at night while tired.

AND you cleared?

And this is your argument to show that healing isn’t easy?

Thank you for summarizing my own reaction so well. I was too stunned that anyone would come to OP's conclusion to be able to compose anything anywhere close as good as you.

[Doomfist]

Let me see if I have this straight.

You did savage, the hardest content in the game bar ultimates/criterion.

on a job you don’t normally play, on a role that isn’t your main.

Late at night while tired.

AND you cleared?

And this is your argument to show that healing isn’t easy?

We cleared on the LAST pull, after OVER AN HOUR of wipes, some from my mistakes, some from others. And unlike on tank, I actually have to care about healing the party after every. single. raidwide. I have to constantly move to the middle while also being less mobile from constantly casting my dps spell, so that my heals and mits will hit everyone. When someone dies, I have to look at the party list to see who I need to rez (I play on controller btw) which distracts me from the next mechanic and makes it easier to mess up. When I'm on tank, I can just trust my healers on fusefield and xboom special after I mitigate properly, but when I'm on healer, I am the one who has to spam heals and mits to get us through those back-to-back damage waves.

I am the only thing stopping the party from being annihilated, the pressure on this role is immense!!! There's a reason healers are the rarest in PF and it's -not- because of the boring dps rotation. Every fight gets boring on every role if you repeat it 10+ times, much more if you count prog.

[IDontPetLalas]

We cleared on the LAST pull, after OVER AN HOUR of wipes, some from my mistakes, some from others. And unlike on tank, I actually have to care about healing the party after every. single. raidwide. I have to constantly move to the middle while also being less mobile from constantly casting my dps spell, so that my heals and mits will hit everyone. When someone dies, I have to look at the party list to see who I need to rez (I play on controller btw) which distracts me from the next mechanic and makes it easier to mess up. When I'm on tank, I can just trust my healers on fusefield and xboom special after I mitigate properly, but when I'm on healer, I am the one who has to spam heals and mits to get us through those back-to-back damage waves.

I am the only thing stopping the party from being annihilated, the pressure on this role is immense!!! There's a reason healers are the rarest in PF and it's -not- because of the boring dps rotation. Every fight gets boring on every role if you repeat it 10+ times, much more if you count prog.

I'm sorry, after reading this, you still haven't realized that (a) tanks are the aberration- you basically get spoiled playing a tank (yes- tank privilege is a thing). I realize you took the time to write " unlike a tank", but I don't think you fully appreciate just how big that privilege is.

In addition, a good half of the items you mentioned become second nature on a healer main- knowing where to stand, slidecasting, having less mobility (choosing which skills to use for that), looking at the party list (managing your UI)- know when to look at the UI.

Even saying that 'you are the only one keeping the party from being annihilated" - technically, not always true, especially in more difficult content, which is why PF tends to have its issues. Every job has skills to help a healer. Whether or not they use them is outside a healer's control- sometime they don't, but MUST- but blame the healer when they die. Healers get fed up.

So no, I have no issues with someone running into issues on a job that they admit to hardly playing on what should be challenging content, when they admit to being not at their best. It might be easy for some people ( a minority) , I wouldn't want most people to just to be able to pick it up and master it in those circumstances.