Quote Originally Posted by nobleboivin View Post
I've been finding healing incredibly hard and difficult. It feels almost impossible to keep the groups up and buffed on top of the fact with positionals and everything else especially once you hit the level 40 dungeons and up. Like bless the healers that can do it in this game. Becuase this game is the hardest to heal in I've ever encountered which sucks cuase I love healer roles. I love the healer classes and lore.
There's no buffing on any healer aside from AST- and that has been greatly simplified- I don't see how that's "almost impossible to keep up", in addition, technically in normal content, if someone is a new healer- if they miss half their cards as they are learning, due to be overwhelmed - there are likely to be little consequences. The group will still complete the content as long as they get the necessary heals.

I can't speak to your prior experience, this game expects healers to deal with mechanics while both healing and DPSing, perhaps that is what you find difficult. I can say that what I find different in this game as opposed to others is that in FFXIV healers wear the same gear as casters, in other games we were regarded as casters but could wear different gear providing higher HP pools that provided higher defensive stats, which made our jobs easier.