Healing and you!

[RyuujinZERO]

I thought every class could use Cure. Is someone not carrying you enough?

Cure is a spell - specifically a healing spell and thus it's potency is linked to mind.

That means it's largely worthless for martial classes because they have very low magic attributes(int/mind/piety), offset even further by the fact conjurers and scholars also recieve significant bonuses to the potency of healing magic through traits. As such a black mage casting cure will find it significantly weaker than a conjurer casting it, and a tank will be wasting his time even trying.

And after level 30 when people branch into their job classes, most classes lose access to cure (In fact the only melee class that retains access I believe is paladin)

I tried healing this fate the other day and I couldn't see anybody to heal them even though I was in a party. So I COULDN'T heal the tank even if I wanted to. I couldn't target him as if he was miles away even though he was tanking. There were just too many people at the FATE. If there aren't 100 people I could heal just fine.

Target of target is your friend here.

Typically these single-boss FATE's, the boss will be fixated on a single tank (they may have AoE attacks, but if you stand in the AoE it's your own fault and I wouldn't expect the healer to go out his way for dopey people ). The bosses target can be obtained by clicking the allied name next to the bosses health bar at the top of the screen, bypassing any confusion on the field - keeping an eye on that bar and throwing them a heal when the bar starts to get low is usually all the attention the raid needs. Most FATE bosses don't even hit hard enough to justify focused healing giving time to throw stones and aeros to further contribute to your reward