The current game design (whether its intentional or not) has people judging healers based on their DPS output.
This came to my attention very early on in my PF "carreer" in E5s~E8s.
I was basically solo healing because the other healers are always trying to put out as much damage as possible.
(Little did I know.. those healers where actually trying to get a good parse in damage so they could apply to static raid groups)
No surprise, when I applied to static groups a few months later... everyone said i was a crap healer and needed to work on my damage rotation!?!? (Those other players had uploaded their parses which had me at 90%+ on healing, and only in the 30%~50% window on damage)
This was my first introduction to what parsing was. I had never heard of this before untill people started shoving logs from other players in face.
Over the last few months I have become increasingly anxious to throw out a single heal because I need the GCD and the weaves between to dish out Damaging spells like Glare, assize(which "the balance"clearly states never save assize for healing) and Blood lily cuz if I dont, I know people will see me as a bad player.
In PF's, its becoming an environment where healers are playing chicking with one another to see who will break and throw out the first heal.
Whoever does throw out the first heal... usually ends up solo healing the entire fight
This is rediculous... A healer should be judged on his abillity to heal both pro-actively and reactively (depending on class and encounter). They should not be confronted by recruiters about their damage output (unless their applying for the very very top/profesional FC's or MLG companies(maybe a little!)... And the fact that you now have an environment where every single savage raider is prioritizing DIRECT HIT over Mana regen is a clear indicator that the healer design in this game needs to change...
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This came to my attention very early on in my PF "carreer" in E5s~E8s.
I was basically solo healing because the other healers are always trying to put out as much damage as possible.
(Little did I know.. those healers where actually trying to get a good parse in damage so they could apply to static raid groups)
No surprise, when I applied to static groups a few months later... everyone said i was a crap healer and needed to work on my damage rotation!?!? (Those other players had uploaded their parses which had me at 90%+ on healing, and only in the 30%~50% window on damage)
This was my first introduction to what parsing was. I had never heard of this before untill people started shoving logs from other players in face.
Over the last few months I have become increasingly anxious to throw out a single heal because I need the GCD and the weaves between to dish out Damaging spells like Glare, assize(which "the balance"clearly states never save assize for healing) and Blood lily cuz if I dont, I know people will see me as a bad player.
In PF's, its becoming an environment where healers are playing chicking with one another to see who will break and throw out the first heal.
Whoever does throw out the first heal... usually ends up solo healing the entire fight
This is rediculous... A healer should be judged on his abillity to heal both pro-actively and reactively (depending on class and encounter). They should not be confronted by recruiters about their damage output (unless their applying for the very very top/profesional FC's or MLG companies(maybe a little!)... And the fact that you now have an environment where every single savage raider is prioritizing DIRECT HIT over Mana regen is a clear indicator that the healer design in this game needs to change...
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