(10-27-2013, 09:39 AM)TheCurls Wrote:(10-27-2013, 07:58 AM)Ildur Wrote: What you are saying here is: "If you are healing properly, you are playing your class wrong!"
I agree that you should CC the mobs if there is no Thaumaturge or Summoner to do that (and assuming your tank can survive the burst damage while you sleep the targets), but once you do? It's back to casting Cure 1 over and over again. DPS as a White Mage is not significant enough to be worth the trouble, not to mention they don't have a mana recovery mechanic, so every damaging spell you are casting is one less healing spell you might need.
You can take risks when you are confident in the tank or when you know you won't run out of mana mid-battle. But otherwise? Better safe than sorry: don't waste your mana for damage dealing. You can never be sure that your teammates aren't going to take big hits (because of whatever reason: maybe positional lag or their cat jumped to their face for a hug).
That's just flat out wrong. I can easily heal properly and do all the other things I mentioned.
WHM damage may not be what a monk or bard will put out, but the damage is not insignificant. Also, I can spam Stone 2 -constantly- and never run out of mana, so the mana recovery argument is moot.
Point is, if you're not doing anything during a fight, you're doing it wrong.
Actually, I think Ildur made several relevant points that were far from being 'flat out wrong'. For one, anytime I have tried to dps in dungeons on my cnj, I'm usually told to stop and just focus on healing.
Additionally, I don't think I've run across a CNJ/WHM yet that didn't have mana problems in long boss fights. As a Bard, I am constantly having to use Mage's Ballad to try and keep their MP bar from dwindling too fast. Whether you stock up on ethers, or whether you put points into Piety I don't know.
Third, cats jumping on faces is a serious epidemic in the gaming-verse. When fluffy cops a 'tude, and decides to use your face as a scratching post, it's game over man. Game over.
