Man, did the first raid set of Eden as WHM and healing is so much more fun than tank or dps on these normal raids/trials.
I feel like with tank/dps unless there's some tough mechanics, these fights are pretty straightforward and you just dodge AoEs and that's it. Hell as a tank you barely need to use cooldowns anymore on normal stuff. I feel like if you don't have vuln stacks, nothing on normal can one shot you even with zero cooldowns at full HP.
But with healer, these fights are intense. Gotta keep moving around and dodging all the same AoEs, but also constantly party healing with all your party heals and shielding and regen-ing the tank and picking up any slack from people getting hit and reviving when people are dying. There's always stuff to do and it makes these fights pretty exciting.
Afterwards I turned in my tomes so far and bought a couple of pieces (mostly just i480 weapons) and got my NIN and WHM to i455 each so they're good for Ruby & Eden Tier 2. Will do those next (still need to do Nier raid as healer, will do that maybe tomorrow). Not that excited about the fights as NIN since will be pretty similar to running them as DRK, but pretty excited to do them as WHM since it's the first time I'll be healing current patch content and it should be even more of a challenge.
I think I'm mixed on 4 person dungeons whether I prefer to heal or tank. Tanking is pretty fun, especially on longer pulls hitting your cooldowns and trying to survive. I kinda wish they didn't dumb down aggro management with shadowbringers where it's basically impossible to lose aggro with aggro stance on. I miss the challenge of having to watch all the enemies enmity and provoke and grab enemies that start to stray. Having to watch that + watch your HP and cooldowns was pretty intense in dungeons as tank. It's still fun though. Healing is fun too as long as the tank isn't doing crazy pulls, mostly just keeping the tank healed but on pulls that can be pretty exciting. DPS is zzzzzzzzzzzzz in dungeons. Even in raids/trials DPS is pretty boring. Yeah you are doing bigger numbers than the tank, but since there's 8 people (or 24) you don't really notice your hits when they're doing less than 1% HP damage. Meanwhile tank you basically are doing a lot of the same things plus cooldowns and keeping the enemy faced away so it's a bit more fun.
From here on out will figure out whether to do things first as HLR or TNK. Might run Healer first next expansion.
If I ever get back to trying to do Ex/Savage content though I'll probably do them as NIN because less stuff to worry about. I could see myself maybe tanking those provided I can communicate well enough on tank swaps with the other tank since otherwise it's not much more and sometimes even less to do than DPS.
But I don't think I'm ever gonna try to heal current Ex/Savage content. With how intense and barely surviving healing these fights on normal, I just don't see that going well.
