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(08-17-2016, 07:44 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Threads like this are seen by up and coming healers. I'm not sure whether it alleviates their concerns, or multiplies them.
To be honest, I think that depends on a great many factors.
1. How new are they to MMORPGs?
2. Have they ever played a healing class in a MMORPG before?
2a. If so, what archetype?
3. How's their situational awareness?
4. How confident are they in their ability to multitask under pressure?
5. How do they approach, handle, accept, and/or refute concerns or criticisms regarding their performance?
...but then, this thread hasn't really been about up and coming healers, so I'm not entirely sure why they should be concerned with or by this thread.
EDIT: When I started healing as CNJ/WHM in FFXIV, my only previous experience with a healer class had been SWTOR's Medicine Operative. I knew from playing through FFXIV as WAR and MNK -- and from reading these forums -- that I'd need to learn how to Cleric Stance and DPS... not to fulfill expectations but to contribute my best. It was intimidating as hell at first, because Med Op had been mostly instant heals and instant HoTs coupled with low-cost attacks. But you know what? I had sixty levels in which to learn how to do so, how to stance-dance. And I did, with my fair share of mistakes along the way.
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