Fed up of the need of Healers!

[Volias]

I can understand the hesitation some people have regarding Tanking and Healing roles. I have been a healer over the course of many mmo's to the point that I just love the mechanic of it. I really wanted to play PLD in FFXIV to mix things up, but I got too worried about being a liability to my party due to my limited tanking experience. That caused me to revert back to what I know, healing, so I went WHM.

Tanking is a leadership role in many aspects and I think Tanks get threat generated from both npc and players alike faster than the healer does. I constantly see chats with people trashing bad tanks, I have rarely seen the same rants on the healers of this game.

I still plan to pursue PLD at some point down the road and deal with the growing pains I'll more than likely have lol

[16bitBounty]

I can understand the hesitation some people have regarding Tanking and Healing roles. I have been a healer over the course of many mmo's to the point that I just love the mechanic of it. I really wanted to play PLD in FFXIV to mix things up, but I got too worried about being a liability to my party due to my limited tanking experience. That caused me to revert back to what I know, healing, so I went WHM.

Tanking is a leadership role in many aspects and I think Tanks get threat generated from both npc and players alike faster than the healer does. I constantly see chats with people trashing bad tanks, I have rarely seen the same rants on the healers of this game.

I still plan to pursue PLD at some point down the road and deal with the growing pains I'll more than likely have lol

That's because there is just an abundance of awful tanks in the game. Personally I love healing, problem is people enjoy seeing big numbers instead of being useful.

[ckb]

That's because there is just an abundance of awful tanks in the game.

You can easily substitute "tanks" with "healers" (or DD/DPS) and it would be equally true. I bring my own healer most of the time because there are some real winners in duty finder. That said, I just accept it as growing pains the few time I do queue. Maybe you should too.