LogFAQs > #972917865

arent the self heals in FF14 more flavour than anything?

i off-and-on keep an eye on the warriors who milk it for everything they can in endgame content because that shit is interesting to me -- if anything they end up being too powerful in context. incoming damage is actually the issue; healers heal really good and tanks have a lot of healing they can use, but they never need both, and it ends up that healers solo-heal eventually.

(also back whenever that was, drks and wars had roughly the same amount of actual throughput, it was just in different shapes -- war self heal used to be half of whatever the damage was you dealt, so this benefited from crits, and that made for spikes; drks are shield healers and have nice discipline priest-like plateaus everywhere)

In WoW you could pull off some crazy feats of soloing as either a DK through mad self-heals

i tanked a fuckin shark once

A healer in a party with a tank is more or less a green DPS or at worst there to babysit the red DPS because a tank's self-healing is that good

i've always been under the impression that the best thing a tank can do for team dps is keep the healers bored.