As a 10 year healing vet the things I’ve learned are as such: 1. No one is going to blame you for dying to something they should have avoided. If they do they were toxic anyway and you can disregard their opinion. In fact, most tanks and DPS I’ve run with think it’s THEIR fault when they die even if it was straight up mine. It’s all perspective. 2. ABC: Always be casting. What separates good and great healers is pure volume. If you ever feel like you’re waiting for someone to heal, start dpsing, crowd control, buffing, whatever you need to do to be on the on top of your gcd. Active casting time should be at least 95% of the fight at the highest levels. 3. Don’t be afraid to use your cooldowns liberally. If the tank made a dodgy pull on trash it’s much better to use your cooldowns to save him then versus “saving it for the boss” or whatever. Cooldowns are relatively short and will make runs go much much smoother if utilized as much as possible. Get out there and practice! You’re gonna die, your friends are gonna die, runs will be doomed, you’ll go OOM, your tank will get blown to shreds FORSURE, but nobody is gonna hurt you behind the screen for failing. Don’t be scared to try this amazing role. Healers basically do everything at a certain point. Good luck to all the aspiring pumpers out there.
I think videos have put pressure on players these days I never played tanks before ff14 and I've been playing gnb for my first tank and levelling a warrior up slowly when I want a change of class and I die all the time indont blame the healer was it him, did I get hit harder than I thought or by a skill I didn't catch as i was distracted by something else maybe, it's a game who cares failure is part of the learning curve for me amd when I go healer I will be more focused on healing and party survival than trying tondo massive amounts of dps as healers in tera used to do it all the time get so focused on dps they forgot to heal you half the time. Your a healer jobs kn the title put out any dots you have and then focus in the ho bars of players not monsters amd attack if youbhave the freedom to and only then so what if the boss takes an extra 30 seconds or 2 minutes to beat.
What's that 47 dungeon? The DPS kept getting the DoTs and not using Morbol Fruits and I was like, fuck it let him die I can't keep everyone else up if I focus him. So I did. Worked. He died, we killed the boss. Told him afterwards to use Morbol Fruits to purge DoTs. I had used my Swiftcast to AOE heal earlier so just let him sit it out until it was done.
I main WHM and could not escape the anxiety of my role for the longest time. But the bloody lily has set me free, it can set you free too. Embrace the blood lily, feed the blood lily..
Same here. WHM main and was too feared for a long time after a horrible dungeon run and a flaming tank. But now it has set me free...Blood for the blood lilly
As a WHM, I agree. I have had people be downright rude in the chatbox. Sometimes I just ignore them and they presume that I have no keyboard to respond. After playing this game for approximately 3 years, I am finally mastering it. Lol now to get my dancer and my samurai to professionacy. Wink wink.
WHM and AST: Pfft, okay. SCH: the hell you do that for?!? Tbf, I main SMN and do not recall rn if SCH had panic button too. Maybe Recitation/what made heals crit+Adlo+Lustrate? So 3 instead of 1...
@@Lurker1991 As Scholar I treat Bolide as a "Time to give everyone a fuck ton of shield!" Activates Recitation, casts Adloquium, follows with Deployment Tactics. After that, no one affected needs to dodge the next AoE (but please do). Also, a thank you to any tank who has a notification macro tied to their immortality ability.
@@bonez963 yeah it happens sadly. I've always been a healer main in MMOs and I enjoy it still however when I get a rough group where I need a break from it I jump on my SMN to just pew pew for a bit. 😂
Ah, looks like it’s time to use Stratagem No. 464: “Stop stupid!” I calculate a 5% success rate to boost dps class effectiveness by 400%! Wait after some data collection, I’ve recalculated the stratagem effective success rate of 0%! Initiating next tactical stratagem, Dragoon Floor Coverage!
I'm a white mage and I hate that there's players that stays in the AOE And then I have to spam my healings since they don't wanna move away from the boss while enemies go a d attack me and I'm like why is everyone only attacking the boss's there's other enemies and they are killing your healer I'm new at the game so it this normal?
@@dikozapelio9034 Depends how new you’re talking about. Generally, I don’t see people taking AoE damage intentionally. Usually, they mix up which mechanic or they seem to get focused on damaging. Some people mix up that certain attacks are avoidable, but the way they were looking, they didn’t see the location to avoid it (I.e. in HW The Vault, there’s a row of charging knights, but there’s a gap. You wouldn’t notice it depending where you’re standing if it’s your first time). There’s also some major philosophical differences. Some try to follow endgame strategies, that if you have to stop damaging, you’re the worst healer ever, quit the game, jump off a cliff. There’s another philosophy of general veteran players which is: did you get the job done and did the party make it? Edit: I play scholar and if you’re to believe the posting of certain endgame players on forums, it’s supposed to be an unplayable mess and you’re a bad person for enjoying it.
My biggest tip is to level a dps job alongside your healer, learning a dungeon on your DPS job first makes it way less stressful and you always have something to fall back on if you decide you've had enough healing for the day.
The hardest part of being a healer, besides needing to be the first person to figure everything out, is accepting not all deaths are your fault. I use to get down on myself when someone died because I thought it was my fault. Realizing it’s not your fault all the time is the most important thing and a key to success to mastering healing
It helps if you prioritize the people you are going to heal. The others have to understand they have to keep themselves alive. The worst case is a leach who keeps getting one shotted and is super salty about you not resurrecting them for the tenth time. This is a literal example I ran into on several occasions. Luckily, this is rare.
Honestly, I have the same problem when I tank. If someone dies or if I die I always blame myself unless someone did something *very* obviously dumb. The other day I died to trash mobs on Paladin and the whole time I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, but when the fight was over the healer apologized profusely for forgetting to heal. I told them not to worry about it because I wasn't doing very good either. I'm not saying this to say "look how nice I am" or anything like that, but rather the healer did a great job after that and I tend to think if you can take some of the anxiety off your healer they won't spend any brain power worrying about screwing up and they'll do better. Same for tanks or anyone for that matter. Besides, if they hadn't apologized I never would have known they let me die in the first place. They could've just not said anything and I would've kept thinking it was all my fault. They didn't know that but still. Also, I wasn't lying when I said I wasn't doing very good. I definitely made mistakes.
If anything is a mix of all parties involved. If i die and i don't know why, it's either A a lack of knowledge in the fight, B i didn't dodge the mechanic (which happens), C the healer didn't heal me fast enough (which happens as well), or D a little bit of everything, so yea it all evens out imo.
A tip for people getting into AST: Your cards are more useful for some jobs than others. If the card you draw has a blue outline on the gauge, it goes to a melee DPS or a tank. If it has a purple outline, it goes to a ranged DPS or yourself/the other healer.
I've been playing astro for a while and I had no idea you could tell with that. I was just looking at minor arcana and figuring it out by that 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ me dumbdumb
Thanks to AST i learned quickly which job symbol represented what job it is. The system now is way easier than in heavensward times ( tbh, i liked the old system) it had more depth but it was the hardest healer job because of that
I've been playing AST as my main healer and even use it in my static and had no idea the cards had different borders. I knew they had which seal they give at the top of the card but I didn't know this. Thank you!
TL;DR: I'm glad to see someone echo the fact that you're encouraging learning first and optimize second, I've always read and found advice to push new healers to optimize right out of the gate, so kudos to the video. I just wanted to say I appreciated this video. As someone who plays the role of a healer and who has been playing the role for the past three years in this game. It's nice to hear encouragement in trying the role without the mindset of immediately trying to optimize. I've always seen advice to new healers that look like this: "If you have to cast a GCD heal, you're losing out on damage." And tbh, I have a reason to believe that's kind of why we have healers whether in PuGs or static settings who have the misunderstood fundamental of trying to optimize damage. Or rather, those healers who ONLY do damage, and no healing. There's no shame in throwing out GCD heals if it's necessary, you're not shit for casting something other than Energy Drain. Optimizing comes later through a ton of communication with a team. Be vocal as a healer, especially with your co-healer if either of you feel something isn't right, this is a team game, we raid as a GROUP. Communicate and plan AS A GROUP and see what you can do together. A successful clear comes FIRST before optimizing damage. So yeah, this turned into a ramble but this video hit dif, and I wanted to just say good shit.
It's a mindset that you have to adapt to. Same with tanking, or dps with heavy positionals. First? Learn! Then--- Do your best. Lastly? Become the frikin best!
Can absolutely agree with this. I main DPS but really enjoy tanking and healing every so often. And sometimes, I have to actively remind myself to switch to the necessary mindset. I had it happen that I was the healer but my mind slipped off into the DPS mindset, so I just kept throwing damage out. I DID notice the tank getting low on health, eventually, with my mind going "Wow, the healer really should do something about tha- WAIT A SECOND! *hits oh-shit-button*" Adapting to your role is important~
I think the worst part of the anxiety are toxic and rude players in higher level trials or dungeons, or sometimes even below. I know that's nothing you can avoid, you *will* cross paths with people like that, and the best thing would be to be above such things, but that's the really hard part... at least for me. :')
Always great to see Desperius content. I listen to your videos like audio books while at work, and its made me a much better player over the last year or so.
im a Dark Knight main and recently picked up White mage, primarily for a Shadowbringers questline but still to learn healer and how it goes. I certainly appreciated the work of every healer before, and now I understand just how it feels to babysit every member of your party lol. i generally at least keep an eye on the hp of my party and when it gets too low, which depends on the circumstances in the trial, dungeon, etc, I go into healing priority until they are at a safe level and keep my eye up as I go back to damage if I don't need to heal others
I recently picked up healing, needing to level WHM and AST in order to get my classes to 80 (SCH being leveled by Virtue of SMN). I found healing as a general principle, is not hard. But what makes it difficult is the reliance on other people. As a healer I encountered all the meme's. The Dragoon and BLM who stood in every AOE. The DPS that ran from a stack marker. The Tank that did wall to wall pulls but didn't know what mitigation (or self sustain) was. And that one DPS who is impatient so while you're fighting group A they run and agro group B and bring it back. The benefit of being a healer however is, you can punish these people. Eat the same avoidable mechanic a few to many times? You stay on the floor. Run and agro a mob while the tank is busy with another? I don't heal you. I, myself, am confident in my ability to heal non-high-end content now, but ultimately the downside I have for healing is, it relies on other people having some common sense. Which is an uncommon trait.
I've only ever been angry at one healer when I was a tank in Aurum Vale. Healer decided to constantly stand in the toxic pools and tried to outheal the poison on themselves at the first boss despite everyone telling him to eat a fruit to clear it.
My FC leader would purposely try to kill himself when he tanks for us in dungeons (so that I (healer) would panic and scream in vc). He's a freaking sadist. But as a result of that, now I don't even blink when the tank goes down. I just run away and save myself and wait for him to respawn.
@@ryno4ever433 Haha. No no, you misunderstand. He's just messing with us. It's not mean spirited or malicious. The dude's awesome. Really knows his stuff. Taught us so much about how to play the game, how to deal with boss mechanics, etc. He crafts gear for us and takes us raiding. Couldn't ask for a better FC leader. But he's also a huge troll and once he knows you're comfortable with a class, he'll mess with you for the lols. Trolling one another is part of the fun of being in an FC.
Yeah the second comment made a lot more sense to understand what you’re saying at first I was thinking what a ahole then now I’m like ok he’s the class clown got it
Run away? What? Swift cast raise the tank and keep everyone alive until he's back up to take agro. If you're not ready to die trying to keep everyone alive you're not ready to heal 💪
I kinda really don't like healing in XIV precisely because of the anxiety. I have a short attention span so managing battle mechanics as well as healing and doing damage has always been kind of hard for me. This is especially challenging with astrologian and scholar since you also hafta manage your cards and summons properly. Did most of ARR as a white mage, wasn't too bad, but as soon as heavensward hit, it just felt like things became a little too much for me, so now i mainly do dps and tank (plus red mage and machinist became my favorite jobs). Tanking isn't too bad, and being dps is pretty freeing as there's not as much responsibility. The most I can say is probably to research the battle or dungeon mechanics beforehand and maybe watch a guide so you won't have to guess what's coming next. Also, it helps to really pay attention to your skill descriptions as I found too late i had been playing bard totally wrong. overall, the job options for healing also just don't excite me too much, but I am hoping sage will change that as the class looks flashy and awesome. Who knows, maybe I'll give healing another chance when endwalker drops.
This video is out right at the moment I decided to renounce playing as a healer, because of bad experiences with incompetent tanks and the resulting anxiety. Also raids are traumatizing when you don't have much experience on this field. I was at the point where I just shut down the in-game chat by fear of being insulted. Useless to say that this video eases my stress a little. I'd like to try giving a shot again, when I'm strong enough to respond appropriately to critics. Or not respond at all when I'm able to see that I'm not entirely at fault and certain person don't want to learn. Then... Well they can die if they not adjust for once. :)
After starting XIV as a melee DPS, I became a GNB main a while back after finally deciding to get over the tanxiety. I've recently picked up SCH and been thoroughly enjoying getting to grips with the final pillar that is the healer role. Being able to pull an overzealous tank from the brink of death was when I started to fall in love with being a healer. And then planning my OGCD heals and Sacred Soil for each add pull in dungeons is addictive. Even if I ultimately decide to become a full-time GNB main for high-end content, spending time as a SCH has equipped me with the tools to be a better tank, as I now have a much better understanding what a good tank and a bad tank looks like. *That is why I think it's a great idea for every tank to try out a healer job.* Seriously, it might make you a better tank!
**Someone gets Doomed** **Same someone doesn't complete the mechanics to get doom removed** **Same someone dies due to doom** That person: "Hearler let me die >:("
i think one of the biggest things that helped me heal is to start with overhealing then slowly learn when i can do damage and heal after, astro main btw
Kind of did the same when I tried to play healer for the first time. As time passed, I tried to wait a bit longer before healing the tank during pulls, and even longer after.
In regards to the first point about being nice to healers. TANKS please remember just because you aren't dying doesn't mean you don't need to pop a defensive cooldown. It can free up time for the healer to tend to other party members, save their mana, or even DPS.
I struggled with anxiety as a healer I started off as scholar and liked it. Played with main until about the end of hw. Then ran most of the patch content as red mage as I wanted a break from stressing about healing. I'd run things blind as it was my first time and sometimes I didn't think I'd do well or blame myself. Then it especially didn't help on the rare occasions when people got a bit annoyed. Now playing as a dps I start to notice people who don't move out of AOEs or mistakes sometimes. Then well think maybe it wasn't all my fault as the healer... Haha. I might go back one day to healing maybe if I have a friend with me for support
Great video! I agree that it isn't always the healer's fault and everyone has their job to fill as a team. Thought there are some healers who are salty divas immediately blaming the tank when the tank dies because they didn't follow instead of asking politely to go slower for them. Overall, ppl shouldn't be afraid to play tank and healer, the community in general is pretty cool and will most likely help if ppl need some tips.
One thing i've learned in the past week of healing for the very first time is that it's okay if the tank's hp drops to 50% or lower because they have multiple cooldowns to use and will be using them if they have experience in the role. And also with decent gear, most of the time my Cure 2 heals about half of a tank's hp anyway. I was really anxious about keeping the tank topped off when i first started.
As a returning player I always tell my party that simple fact when I am healing or tanking, especially if it's a dungeon I have not seen (at all or) in a long time. That so far has negated every drama for me. As tank I usually also stop before pulling a boss to ask if there is something I should be wary about. But usually it's just "Don't spin the boss and DDR away with your tank'n'spank." I did muck up a dungeon tonight by having not the tank in as target and blowing all my CDs in panic mode and watch him die anyway, since... you know, it all got cast on me. XD I said it was my fault, which is true, and apologized. That was enough. That and the insta-combat-rez of course to stabilize my woupsie. But everybody was super-chill about it. And that's it really. People in FFXIV are very patient and relaxed and if you are not afraid to say you messed up and say sorry and sprinkle in a bit of good-natured humor and humility only the most vile and trollish of people will ever give you a hard time. And those folks are absurdly rare in 14. Seriously. You would have to look real hard and long to find somebody that is giving you shit after you apologized and took responsibility if you messed up. The general answer I get is usually "Don't worry about it. It's fine. All is well. You're good." I CANNOT overstate how much this is a factor in my decision to return, time and time again. I always know returning to 14 is a breeze because people are just that chillaxed.
Healer has always been my favorite role since I played WoW. But with my pepega attention span, general lack of situational awareness, and especially DPS expectations make XIV's healers feel x3 more difficult to play in comparison.
One thing to add - at the start of a dungeon or trial, don't be afraid to say you're new to healing and open to feedback about how you can do better. Everyone wants there to be more good healers, and as long as you're willing to learn (and actually make an effort to learn from your mistakes, not just say you're "still learning" as an excuse to not give a shit), people will generally be helpful. That doesn't mean there won't be assholes, but overall it makes the experience much smoother.
In the words of the Priestess..."You get used to it." Most of the time deaths are not your fault. Unless the tank is not doing tank things, nobody else should be taking too much damage.
It's fun as a healer, i like it. I don't blame the healers. If you make enough stupid mistakes as a DPS or Tank, that's your own fault. I don't mind healers helps damaging enemies, as long you're more focused on your team. Everyone can make mistakes, even i did. You'll learn from it.
@Nick Jordan I started playing as a healer back in Heavensward and have played one ever since. I've never had any issue with the changes they made to healers. I'd rather press one thing over and over than have to worry about the timers on a bunch of different dots. Which is kinda funny since I like playing Bard which has dots to keep up as a key part of how they are played. I always play with randoms, so I never know how things are going to go with the party and my healing them. Keeps things interesting.
@Nick Jordan It's for that reason I don't think I could heal with any job other than AST, those cards make all the difference. Rip the old system but they still provide consistent breaks to the monotony and being random there's always a little thought required, then if people die or have gimped dps in a certain phase or are about to blow cds you have to keep track to decide who gets buffs, then shit hits the fan and you have to keep doing all that while also keeping people alive. Great fun. AST cards may be my favorite mechanic in the game. Tanking however just feels way too loose in FFXIV, I can't stand it. I did some tanking in WoW and it was quite satisfying to leap in and instantly snap aggro on everything, but in FFXIV there's an awkward delay to everything and it's so much worse for tanking because I'll aoe a group and they'll keep running past me for a second so I have to wait and make sure I actually got aggro, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't it's fucking irritating. Meanwhile I'll play a healer and watch tanks sprint through mobs without using any abilities, nearly die then all the mobs go to me for healing them then they pick 'em up after (usually) so maybe it doesn't matter but that's not the kind of experience I want to give my groups lol.
@Nick Jordan is it really that boring? I was just thinking to start ff since I main heal in a lot of games in Competitive environment but I was scared watching some guide that it would be just a three button spam, hope its not
There's definitely a balance between not blaming the healer but also not blaming the person who died. I'm a healer main with 90 Sage and Scholar and running a Shadowbringers dungeon as PLD, and there was a Sage queued with a Mentor DPS in my party. The sage was probably new to the class and was barely casting heals at all. I ended up dying 2 times during the run and the second time the healer didn't realize I died and kept casting spells on the enemies. The mentor ended up yelling at me because I slightly overlapped the duration of 2 of my mitigations, and they explained that they had PLD level 90 and it was my fault I died. I had to resist the urge to tell them that I'm a healer main with two at level 90 including the one the healer was playing -- I would never have issue healing in a run where the tank overlaps mitigations in a simple main scenario dungeon. At the end of the day, I agree it's usually not the healers fault, but you should also take that concept with a grain of salt instead of blaming the person who died.
As a scholar main, I have a thing of “anyone half health with no shields? Okay succor. That get everyone? Cool, back to broil” and that usually gets me through most content while keeping my fairy regen going. Unless it’s the bosses “im’a murder you now” phase.... then I’m a lil more proactive about it.
It's normal to get anxious when you're trying for the first time to be a healer but trust me if you keep practicing and learning that anxiety will turn into excitement 💗
Hoenstly when I started FFXIV I avoided Healing classes like the plague because of my past experience as a support main on Overwatch lmao. IK they are entirely different games but the toxicity I get from that put me off healing. So I started tanking and then found my favourite role in Bard. After a while I wanted to try healer thoughso picked up WHM and it is quite fun! I like the balance between keeping your team topped up and adding damage to the enemies, and I love playing the 'How low can your team go before you need to heal them' game. There have been a few times where I could do better and a party member died, but failure is something you need to improve at tihngs so I don;t worry too much about it and actually learn from it! Want to try another healing class out too to see what it's like!
I actually started with Conjurer and went to whitemage until I hit level 50y everything was fine by then. But one day I got the darkhold in my daily roulette and miserably failed at the passage after the first boss (with the toads). Got ranted and flamed at resulting in me shame-quitting the game and only returning a few hours later never touching healer again, only to realize in the next month that with every sprout party I at least wiped once in this duty at the same spot. I shouldn't have left during my healer run back then which is why I always try to make healers comfortable when we wipe. At some point I maybe allow an FC member to teach me healing again 😩
Damn I'm really sorry that happened. It's super easy to wipe on the toad pull since they can push you off the immediate area and separate you from the party. Completely understandable place to wipe especially if it's randoms you are playing with. If you know someone who plays tank and are friends with i highly recommend doing content with them. It can really ease the tension and you can laugh/learn through mistakes
@@Astraldymensions thanks for the advice, I really like to tank and respect those who have to heal me through all the bs i am doing :D yes, the best way to learn a healer is to do it with people that allow mistakes to happen and even have some good advices and tips for your rotation
@@ohnuza1798 I agree but there are two or three toads iirc. The tank stunning one is common but rarely do other dps have the awareness to stun the others. It's just another thing that is so rarely asked of casual players to do. As a result most people don't think to stun as dps in general
On the section with the toads and AOE crystals, tanks and melee DPS must hug the wall. Worst case is they get hit with Labored Leap, but they do not fall to their deaths. Tanks can also engage the toads one by one. If you are melee DPS, stun the frog so you can maintain your positionals.
There is probably too much expectation on healers to also dps as much as they can, and for some, this can easily lead to them forgetting to heal as much as they need to, or to save dps from standing in the yuck.
Being a tank, I can say that the worst healers are those that put their DPS over healing. Running into a dungeon today, I was at a level I don't have self heals for my paladin, so the healer kept doing DPS, only healing me when I was under 5% HP I was fine with it if it would keep me alive, but instead I kept dying over and over because he refused to keep me above 10% I asked him to put the minimum hp I had a bit higher to avoid burst damages, but he went toxic. Was my first bad healer case. Apart from that, I love you healers you are all my best friends as a tank lol EDIT: Just have to point out I was confident in my ability to do mitigation. I usually had at least 1 in cooldown, plus another one when in a pack of mobs. At this point I cannot do better than that
I think this kind of thing is happening because SO many guides out there for healers put an emphasis on the fact that the healer should be DPSing as well, and not JUST standing there healing. Then a lot of these beginners (like myself before I quit WHM for RDM literally today) never really learn to heal because they’re so focused on trying to DPS and heal at the same time. Not saying you shouldn’t DPS on healer, just saying you should learn to heal efficiently first, then begin to incorporate DPS. Not the other way around like it seems many people are being taught. Either way sorry for your bad experience man, Tank can be just as stressful as Healer, y’all don’t deserve that stuff.
yup, there are some bad healers out there, they want to run before learning to walk and forget their priority is healing. I hate it when my tank down to a tiny dot of hp before dying and still not receive any heals. I am sorry I have to pop my clemency, not that i don't trust their heal but they are making the tank insecure, when you make the tank insecure then is a fail as a healer. I know there is a skill on AST can heal you full instantly but that is too much risk for the whole party to take to allow such extremely low hp happen.
I play everything, but most of the time i go with Bard, but Paladin is fun, as healer, well i played Astro, but after the new update i didn't touch it even once, i will try something else sometime:))
I like healing, I like keeping my party alive on seemingly impossible overpulls in dungeons. I'm no good at established openers and stuff though. I will always try to keep everyone alive as best as I can. I will never prioritize dealing damage but I will absolutely do it when there's a chance and I feel comfortable with the skill of my party. Never be afraid to ignore dealing damage and instead focusing on your healing when you feel uncomfortable with a group or a dungeon/raid/boss mechanic.
as someone that came over from WoW I really like how easy it is to weave dps into healing, but healing is top priority when you are a healer. Playing a WHM right now to get a feel for it, I used to play a discipline priest in WoW so once I get more dungeons memorized out I would not mind the shield healing, but till I get there WHM and reactive healing is the way to go. Plus, burning out my retinas with holy is fun lol. Also, I am starting to get why people are into a parasitic plant getting fed the precious. I have also gotten good at swiftcasting rez when people ignore mechanics. I have noted that dungeon memorization is high priority in FF14 since in the end game dungeons you really do not have time to just react to things before things kill you but it becomes much easier once you figure out the visual clues and patterns.
Knowledge is also key, later on you'll want to pay attention to the Enemy status bar so that you can time your heals to the cast, depending on Tank-Buster or unavoidable AOE.
Not sure about how Sage will be, but SCH isn't too rough - nowhere near as thoughtful as disc priest. If you're like me, though, you'll feel right at home when you start the kit. Scholar's shielding lasts for a whopping 30s, which is way more forgiving than PW:S at 15s. Plus, you get Selene/Eos which heals as you deal damage, so it can feel similar to your light Atonement healing (albeit permanent and 1 target at a time). You'll get something similar to bubble, but you'll trade your 60s for 30s in exchange for lower power. It's easy to throw Physick (a weak, single target heal) in the trash, but I find it to be a useful spot heal tool, similar to SMend... as in, I'd rather not have to, but I will. In truth, you probably don't need to learn the dungeons as much as you think you might. The mechanics can be learned on the fly if you're paying attention and, even when failed, rarely outright kill you. For Disc, I know how punishing it was not knowing a fight, typically because you'd lacked any real powerhouse group spells. In comparison, FFXIV's Scholar has a couple extra "things are going bad" tools to help you recover.
@@VozmezdieSoldier nice, yeah it's 10 seconds before a damage window time to burst my spirit shell rarw...though holy being the best healing spell in dungeons has a certain appeal, I will level up all the healers before Endwalker and obviously a sage when its out. Along with my red mage and Dancer, I think right now cause that is fun if a bit chaotic so far lol. I mained Red Mage in FF11 so it has a special place in my heart and I get swift cast all the time instead of once every two hours and never have to cast refresh so it's nice...even if lucid dreaming is the same thing they get to press the button. The irony will be if I do not end up being the healer in my static party of friends lol.
Whether you play as a tank or healer, I strongly suggest you level your Company Squadron and Trust System. Both allowed me to learn tanking without worry of being ranted at by toxic healers and dps. Your Company Squadron will have most dungeons from ARR to Heavensward, and the Trust System will have most of the Shadowbringer dungeons (with the exception of the optional ones). If you do end up using the Trust System, I strongly suggest bringing Alphinaud as your healer. The only odd time you will have to tank with real people will be Stormblood as there's no Trust or Company Squadron system in place, but either by then you'll know enough about tanking to do it with real people or you can just use the daily PvP roulette in combination with Heaven-on-High to get you from 60 to 70. Another option from 71-80 is doing Bozja. I personally alternated between Bozja and the Trust System when leveling my tanks as I loved both.
my stress from healing as SCH and AST, when the co healer WHM is only spamming holy and glare..i mean even in boss fights, even after tank buster and AOE...even when the whole party is only at 10% health..please medica II?
this!! I was healing fricken HADES extreme with a WHM who wouldn’t help me heal to full on DOOM. as a SCH i can do no more after my mini burst that I saved up, please use your medica oh my god
@@vinea4659 Scholar be like : i've used my crit indom, why we still wipe? Looking at glare-happy WHM Oh, i see. My co-healer keep staring at the boss instead of healing
I have the opposite problem as a whm lol any time my co healer is a sch they literally never help, even to raise people. I guess they just expect their fairy to do all the work
@@RenoftheRain i'm the opposite of this, i always said to my co-healer lemme raise/heal first because i still can't gauge how much the damage the boss deal
Before I even watch the video. I pretty much play healer in all MMOs I play as it comes natural to me. However, even in my younger days, I always got frustrated with playing anything BUT healer because I've seen people mess it up so much and I could never understand how other people can find it so difficult. I try to remind myself when I see people trying, that it doesn't come natural to everyone. So it helps to understand from other perspectives to help be more... forgiving.
I gotta admit, I purposely browse the Healer hate posts on purpose to laugh at the excuses people give as to why the healer was the one at fault and never the OP. Healer mains rise up.
I learned to multitarget cast. Which is to say while casting glare on an enemy, I switch to my friend and start spamming a cureII then when it begins casting I switch back to the enemy for another salvo.
For some reason i really enjoy playing healer in dungeons. As a wow player that jump into ffxiv again (last time was 2017), and in wow i avoid healing like the plague, it's hard to say... It just feel better, and even when im just lvl 60 most of the time the community is very chill with new players, and that gave ne alot of confidence to embrace my white mage
I have mained WHM since this game came out but I still get healer anxiety when it comes to newer dungeons because, let's be real, there's a lot of asshats online anywhere. What I try to do is always run my first time through the dungeon with at least 1 friend on the team, ideally all friends. Then you not only get to experience the mechanics but you get the feel for how a dungeon is suppose to go when it's done with people who are good at their job. This is how I realize when people are being bad at their jobs in a dungeon and that it's not me in DFs. Like for example, one time, I was wondering why the mobs weren't dying fast enough and I almost run out of MP keeping the tank alive every other pull. I realized at the first boss, when the boss got to do his attack rotation TWICE when he was supposed to be DEAD before he got to his second time around, that it wasn't me OR the tank but the DPSs who weren't doing nearly enough damage to warrant safe room pulls (or anything else for that matter) who were at fault and I immediately stopped feeling bad.
from what i can see in videos without actually having been there yet is that a ton of boss mechanics in this game are you mess it up you dead...as in most mechanics seem to be one shots with the ones you are supposed to heal being very close to it or easily healed through so yeah i would say especially in this game it is very often peoples faults for dying not a healers
Tbf, that's the scholar equivalent to AST Earthly star and WHM Assize, with the healing half being an alternate use rather than at the same time. With Afflatus Misery WHM has the most dps skills now, since Scholar lost all it's dots.
1:46 Bozja "raids" feel really bad for this. group with 5 healers, tank dies 4 times on the same boss, because they all think healing is someone else's job and they only queued healer due to being sick of getting in groups with no healer, while all using potions to lower healing output and increase damage.
Don't overthink healing when you start. If you're scared, it's fine to heal all the time at first. To be fair, there are only a few content where the dps of healers is mandatory. Just get into it slowly. Knowing the fights helps a lot in knowing when you can dps, when you need to heal the tank, when you need to pop a aoe heal etc. I used to feel guilty when a dps died in my team... now I blame them for not dodging the aoe :D
Currently getting every job to 80 and I put off whm and astro for the longest time. I tried sch and did not enjoy the fairy mechanics and Shields. Regen is definitely my strongest suit and I always go Regen for astro even if we have 2 of them. But yeah it isn't so bad now.
I think something needs to be said specifically for healing, and that is that it’s not rigid like a DPS prio or rotation. It can feel very freeing to heal and actually have open choice for which spell you want to cast
Depend on the dps, when you know the jobs, many dps have quite flexible rotation, and you often have room to delay your burst/buffs. I don't really see a différence, in the sense that you have to use your tools to do the job in the most effective way you can. I would say that healer is about Adapting, more so than dps given the run, but not so much freedom. Many healer i had told me that in perfect runs, healing is boring. BUT : it rarely happens outside of a good static.
I have serious dps and tank anxiety but healing feels like HOME for me lol I enjoy both predictive and reactionary gameplay that healer provides and I love to challenge myself with solo healing extreme trials
Well since people might see this here are some tips from 4 years of white mage experience: 1)WHM is probably the best healer to start the game with since you don't have to bother with shielding and mitigations(at least not that much). 2)WHM allows you to recover from unexpected damage for example: If a tank gets tankbustered and is very low on hp you have 3 instant healing "buttons" to use Aflatus/tetragramaton/benediction in fact you can combo a cure into aflatus into tetragramaton and they will be in full health again ;) 3)While you do have single target healing WHM has 2 instant aoe heals that can help you refill all of your party's health really fast AND having access to medica 2 allows you to use it and you will be 100% sure that they will be healthy when they really need to. 4)If DPS classes dies to mechanics IT IS NOT your fault for not healing them, most of the times when you get hit by a mechanic you could avoid you get punished with a damage invulnerability that means someone didn't do a mechanic correct or didn't dodge the attack, don't panic, heal them normally and if by any chance you wipe, no worries you will try again. 5)When everyone has full health and no one is taking any damage you can use your dps skills, just apply your aero/dia and spam stone/glare, healers have some respectable damage numbers so you really help the team by dealing damage.Of course since your rotation is literally pressing 1 button you can focus your attention on other things like healthbars/mechanics etc. 6)You have a shield, use it when a tank is about to take heavy damage from tank busters, they will love you for that, trust me. 7)You are the only class that can kill your party members, there is a little good skill called "Rescue" where you can pull a teammate to you in order to rescue them......or... you could send them to their deaths by pulling them in a bottomless pit or a death zone and what can i say, it feels fun knowing that i can kill anyone i want if i truly desire it. 8)Relax and have fun. 9)If a gunbreaker uses Superbolide when you use benediction let them die, they will learn.(memes must be memed) People from NA data centers are very chill people from my experience and you will rarely find toxic players on easy content like story dungeons and trials.
I just started healing 2 weeks ago, fell in love and played healing class almost exclusively ever since. I did have a couple of bad run ins with the 'oh so superior' mentor class. It was the 4 man in the stormblood castle with me, tank and 1 dps being sprouts. Monk mentor kept pulling big causing the inexperience me and tank to struggle greatly in keeping him alive. Then the dick had the audacity to hurl insults at us calling us noobs (which was true). And since I don't chat at all, I expressed all of my annoyance with inaction. No heal or res ever came his way till the end of the raid. Naturally, he kept the insults coming but it sure was hell fun to watch him die again and again.
This is one of the most common mistakes new players make. The res has a minute to be accepted and if there is a large mechanic happening, just wait. There’s no point coming back to life to swallow some massive cleaves and immediately die again.
In fact, the healer *should* be rezzing immediately and then leaving the timing to you so that they can get Swiftcast back off cooldown as soon as possible.
Remember healers! You have the best tool in the game.... Rescue! For that toxic tanks/dps or new players who dont know all the mechanics yet! What you decide to do with that info is up to you :3.
Only recently started playing FFXIV and really enjoying playing healer for the most part, except those tanks that keep moving constantly and complain you aren’t doing your job (note to tanks not all or our skills are instant so we do need them to stay in range to heal at times). But overall I’m finding healers most fun to play
Yeah no kidding. Last night I healed an alliance raid and, imo, did a garbage job. So I spent last night trying to find a useful video on healing, and then this one was freshly posted.
I think for me it just took a lot of trial and experience. WHen I started off healing as SCH? Nervous af. WHM? Ok this is the one people say is easy, so I felt better about this. AST? I was anxious about bc I've heard of the complexity, but by that time I had gotten comfortable enough with the role and it became my favorite of the 3!
I started to enjoy playing healer in exper dungeons because your average dungeon time lowers by alot. There are to many "party needs to be 100% hp and I only need to heal" healers and you feel how much longer a dungeon takes with them. So by playing healer by myself I can tell the tank to pull everything and then just holy spam the enemys down.
I would say don't worry about damage until you are comfortable with just healing in general then when you get that down start learning to throw in some damage. Learning to not blow all your mp is the most important rule of healing if you don't have mp that's when the wipe will come.
I used to play healer a long time ago and quit when I was told by Streamer Mr.Happy and dozens of other people the Healers are 100% DPS first and Healer second. I was actually kicked from groups doing roulette's because I wasn't DPSing when there was no need for me to do so and just healing. I also quit doing end game content as at the time the end game community was EXTREMELY toxic and would kick people and even just abandon raids after just one wipe.
There's times where tanks put healers in position where they just can't heal fast enough or have enough MP to support the team or in my case got teamed up with a white mage in a level 49 dungeon (forgot the name, it's the one with Gold lung damage overtime debuff) just now, whom solely focused on DPS till keep on forgetting to heal everyone (we got wiped at least 4 times) I literally had to keep on using Hi-Potions to keep myself alive..... I too used main White Mage till level 50, if I were in that other healers shoes I would feel utterly offended to see people using potions when I'm around as it shows how incompetent I am as a healer (unless there's communication where I ran out of MP and need time to recover hence its ok to use potions) ...... but as a DPS (current Black Mage, I had to do it to keep myself alive)
I'm addicted to the Queue privileages. I usually only DPS anymore when I'm with friends. I usually know what kills me - like the DPS who runs AOEs into me, or my own stupid ass when I eat too much pain for breakfast. Still, I do love them blood lilies.... I didn't start with a god complex. I only wanted to help. But yeah, the pressure of "It's up to me who lives or dies" is a matter of perspective. It's either the weight of the world or that feeling of power when the dragoon tanks the floor for the tenth time and you're like "Sorry, the Monk is doing a better job of staying alive, I'll get you... eventually" But seriously, I love DPS who know their rotations and how to stay out of the bad. :) I used to get frightened by every AOE marker and prey icon, so I would run away or into the healer without realizing it. Healing helped me DPS better... and then I started maining Healer XD
When I play as healer I focus on healing and not dps now I am still low level and not end game but my foucus for me anyways as a healer is healing not dpsing because I came from wow and it was easier to foucus on healing as a healer and let the dps do there job my job is to keep you alive not dps a boss
start playing recently have to say as a new player i do try make healer life easier avoiding unecessary damage on me and if i can i even heal myself with some ability every job has i think (not sure on this)
I started off as a WHM and didn't really think it was too bad. I moved on to BLM tho and have much more fun with it, personally. Even thought about trying out a tank once I unlock squadrons
I mean, that pretty much goes without saying haha. Just be patient with yourself, try not to do more than you're comfortable with. Also ask the tank ahead of time to keep it slow...two pulls are just enough to make sure you get comfortable with everything. Then once you've had enough practice and exposure, you'll be begging the tank to pull wall to wall haha.
I'll admit that when Sage came out, I probably made the worst decision of deciding it would be the first healer I'd run. First dungeon I ran was with randos. Not a good time. Did absolutely freaking terrible. Almost swore it off because I got chewed up and spit out in the party chat, but it was thanks to one other player who just waited until they were gone to talk. That Sage is the class I finished Endwalker with, and now I'm working on Scholar to be an even better healer than when I started learning the role as a Sage. Were those two players toxic? Maybe - I definitely misstepped many times trying to remember all the actions, but it was also up to them to utilize movement and maybe speak with a bit more patience and grace. Sage had just come out and I wasn't going to start out as a master of it. You aren't either. Feed your blood lilies. /laugh at the boss that killed you last time, poison them, and try again. Shoot the boss until your tank is worried about you...or...do some fortune telling (ain't worked on AST yet)? Don't give up on working through the discomfort of being a healer. At some point, you too will be able to scoff at the mitless tank and laugh at the over-eager DPS when they blame you for their fourth repeat misstep, and more importantly, your friends who love to play with you will love to play with you even more. #JustKeepCasting
The reason I like to have my group at 100% is that I still cant predict when raid- or grp-aoe is coming in. So I keep them nice and up at least around 90% so they survive that. The Triad boss in Delubrum e.g. does two nasty raid aoes in a row (and I only know that because... well, I ran that raid quite often... like... very often ^^°). If the group isnt topped up, they die. Or just yesterday in Dalriada during the "soft enrage" of Diabolos: granted, the healers were hard pressed, but one aoe was enough and almost the entire grp wiped (fun fact: a little later I got raised the moment the boss did another aoe - everyone died the moment I got up XD ) Maybe this just my anxiety speaking... Worst part is when I keep an eye on the tank, see him going below 50% while still casting my Glare, thinking "ok, next a heal then..." - and then he dies >.< And its not even that he didnt use any cd's - he just drops o.O
I need to practice healing more. I just don't wanna sit there spam healing only (low level dungeon, tanks forget we don't have our full rotations it seems). Trying to get all jobs up before EW but I still need StB and ShB xD
as a WHM main.. I'd really like a secondary attack and not another dot... GlareMaging is kinda boring as hell, even keeping everyone alive. It doesn't have to be a frequent thing, just something to shake the rotation up, something like a 20 second cool down attack would be nice. (sure the lilies help, but they require 3ish minutes to deal another "attack")
Recently when healing all with all the new sprouts. They’re like I’m new clearly afraid of messing up not knowing mechanics. I’m like death!!! They freak out lol. I’ll say it’s ok to mess up and die ur new and learning it’s expected.
It took me years and years to realize that people dying could potentially be beyond my control. I had to finally play DPS to understand what 'optional damage' meant. I should have done it sooner, I could have defended my honor better. either way now it's part of why I have anxiety -- it's not that I think it's my fault, it's that I know nobody wants to be told they're showing their ass
The real issue is WHM who can't be bothered to stop their glare / holy spam to heal. I main tank and I have to keep HQ Max pots on my hotbar for this reason alone. I shouldn't have to pop more than one miti for a 2-3 group pull because the WHM refuses to even think about touching a healing button. I've been yelled at and "rescued" forward for only going one group at a time when that happens and it's the most irritating thing and usually ends with them getting shirked.
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As a 10 year healing vet the things I’ve learned are as such:
1. No one is going to blame you for dying to something they should have avoided. If they do they were toxic anyway and you can disregard their opinion. In fact, most tanks and DPS I’ve run with think it’s THEIR fault when they die even if it was straight up mine. It’s all perspective.
2. ABC: Always be casting. What separates good and great healers is pure volume. If you ever feel like you’re waiting for someone to heal, start dpsing, crowd control, buffing, whatever you need to do to be on the on top of your gcd. Active casting time should be at least 95% of the fight at the highest levels.
3. Don’t be afraid to use your cooldowns liberally. If the tank made a dodgy pull on trash it’s much better to use your cooldowns to save him then versus “saving it for the boss” or whatever. Cooldowns are relatively short and will make runs go much much smoother if utilized as much as possible.
Get out there and practice! You’re gonna die, your friends are gonna die, runs will be doomed, you’ll go OOM, your tank will get blown to shreds FORSURE, but nobody is gonna hurt you behind the screen for failing. Don’t be scared to try this amazing role. Healers basically do everything at a certain point. Good luck to all the aspiring pumpers out there.
Solid post from a fellow healing veteran. 👍
Thanks for your advice! :)
PREACH!
I think videos have put pressure on players these days I never played tanks before ff14 and I've been playing gnb for my first tank and levelling a warrior up slowly when I want a change of class and I die all the time indont blame the healer was it him, did I get hit harder than I thought or by a skill I didn't catch as i was distracted by something else maybe, it's a game who cares failure is part of the learning curve for me amd when I go healer I will be more focused on healing and party survival than trying tondo massive amounts of dps as healers in tera used to do it all the time get so focused on dps they forgot to heal you half the time. Your a healer jobs kn the title put out any dots you have and then focus in the ho bars of players not monsters amd attack if youbhave the freedom to and only then so what if the boss takes an extra 30 seconds or 2 minutes to beat.
Pro Tip: Close your heart to the suffering of your DPS companions.
Pro tip: Bath in the suffering drink it in and use it...BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILY!
Lather yourself in their tears
Become what you must, BECOME THE SALT MAGE
What's that 47 dungeon? The DPS kept getting the DoTs and not using Morbol Fruits and I was like, fuck it let him die I can't keep everyone else up if I focus him. So I did. Worked. He died, we killed the boss. Told him afterwards to use Morbol Fruits to purge DoTs. I had used my Swiftcast to AOE heal earlier so just let him sit it out until it was done.
@@Crimefridge You speak of the cursed Aurum Vale.
I main WHM and could not escape the anxiety of my role for the longest time. But the bloody lily has set me free, it can set you free too. Embrace the blood lily, feed the blood lily..
Same here. WHM main and was too feared for a long time after a horrible dungeon run and a flaming tank. But now it has set me free...Blood for the blood lilly
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILY!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL TH... wait, wrong franchise.
Still feeling the anxiety but I’m getting it over it slowly.
im too jaded to care anymore. i dont see the low hp numbers, i only see green dps numbers🤪
As a WHM, I agree. I have had people be downright rude in the chatbox. Sometimes I just ignore them and they presume that I have no keyboard to respond. After playing this game for approximately 3 years, I am finally mastering it. Lol now to get my dancer and my samurai to professionacy. Wink wink.
Scholar : i don't decide who live, she does *points at eos/selene
As a SCH main: if you die, don't take that up with, take that up with Eos.
Desperius : Don't fear healing !
Gunbreaker : Gonna press this amazing button
Turns out Bolide is German for "fuck your benediction."
WHM and AST: Pfft, okay.
SCH: the hell you do that for?!?
Tbf, I main SMN and do not recall rn if SCH had panic button too. Maybe Recitation/what made heals crit+Adlo+Lustrate? So 3 instead of 1...
@@Lurker1991 As Scholar I treat Bolide as a "Time to give everyone a fuck ton of shield!" Activates Recitation, casts Adloquium, follows with Deployment Tactics. After that, no one affected needs to dodge the next AoE (but please do). Also, a thank you to any tank who has a notification macro tied to their immortality ability.
This 100%. When people die, it's not always the healer's fault. Dodge the avoidable mechanics. Your healers will be grateful. Like me. 😘
pretty much this i quit lvling sch cuz i kept getting groups that would eat aoes like they were at all you can eat buffet
@@bonez963 yeah it happens sadly. I've always been a healer main in MMOs and I enjoy it still however when I get a rough group where I need a break from it I jump on my SMN to just pew pew for a bit. 😂
@@MaekaGaming pretty much what i did been trying to get all my jobs to 80 in preparation for endwalker just got magic and melee dps left to go
@@bonez963 very nice, good luck! I have all of the jobs at 80, just working on getting everyone their 80 relic done. Got two of them done so far.
The best healing spell is the WASD keys ;D
Someone: Dies to avoidable AoE Mechanics...
Scholar Main: Can't Heal Stupid.
Ah, looks like it’s time to use Stratagem No. 464: “Stop stupid!” I calculate a 5% success rate to boost dps class effectiveness by 400%!
Wait after some data collection, I’ve recalculated the stratagem effective success rate of 0%! Initiating next tactical stratagem, Dragoon Floor Coverage!
I'm a white mage and I hate that there's players that stays in the AOE
And then I have to spam my healings since they don't wanna move away from the boss while enemies go a d attack me and I'm like why is everyone only attacking the boss's there's other enemies and they are killing your healer
I'm new at the game so it this normal?
@@dikozapelio9034 Depends how new you’re talking about.
Generally, I don’t see people taking AoE damage intentionally. Usually, they mix up which mechanic or they seem to get focused on damaging. Some people mix up that certain attacks are avoidable, but the way they were looking, they didn’t see the location to avoid it (I.e. in HW The Vault, there’s a row of charging knights, but there’s a gap. You wouldn’t notice it depending where you’re standing if it’s your first time).
There’s also some major philosophical differences. Some try to follow endgame strategies, that if you have to stop damaging, you’re the worst healer ever, quit the game, jump off a cliff.
There’s another philosophy of general veteran players which is: did you get the job done and did the party make it?
Edit: I play scholar and if you’re to believe the posting of certain endgame players on forums, it’s supposed to be an unplayable mess and you’re a bad person for enjoying it.
@@Tenuto40 understood thank you for the information
I like playing white mage
So I'm basically just a healer main 😂
My biggest tip is to level a dps job alongside your healer, learning a dungeon on your DPS job first makes it way less stressful and you always have something to fall back on if you decide you've had enough healing for the day.
Being a healer is like playing an offline FF game having other party members be your recruitable npcs
The hardest part of being a healer, besides needing to be the first person to figure everything out, is accepting not all deaths are your fault. I use to get down on myself when someone died because I thought it was my fault. Realizing it’s not your fault all the time is the most important thing and a key to success to mastering healing
Sometimes they are your fault. But that's okay; just scrape them off the floor with a swift cast and dust them off so they can get back in the fight 😁
It helps if you prioritize the people you are going to heal. The others have to understand they have to keep themselves alive. The worst case is a leach who keeps getting one shotted and is super salty about you not resurrecting them for the tenth time. This is a literal example I ran into on several occasions. Luckily, this is rare.
Honestly, I have the same problem when I tank. If someone dies or if I die I always blame myself unless someone did something *very* obviously dumb. The other day I died to trash mobs on Paladin and the whole time I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, but when the fight was over the healer apologized profusely for forgetting to heal. I told them not to worry about it because I wasn't doing very good either. I'm not saying this to say "look how nice I am" or anything like that, but rather the healer did a great job after that and I tend to think if you can take some of the anxiety off your healer they won't spend any brain power worrying about screwing up and they'll do better. Same for tanks or anyone for that matter. Besides, if they hadn't apologized I never would have known they let me die in the first place. They could've just not said anything and I would've kept thinking it was all my fault. They didn't know that but still. Also, I wasn't lying when I said I wasn't doing very good. I definitely made mistakes.
If anything is a mix of all parties involved. If i die and i don't know why, it's either A a lack of knowledge in the fight, B i didn't dodge the mechanic (which happens), C the healer didn't heal me fast enough (which happens as well), or D a little bit of everything, so yea it all evens out imo.
A tip for people getting into AST:
Your cards are more useful for some jobs than others. If the card you draw has a blue outline on the gauge, it goes to a melee DPS or a tank. If it has a purple outline, it goes to a ranged DPS or yourself/the other healer.
I've been playing astro for a while and I had no idea you could tell with that. I was just looking at minor arcana and figuring it out by that 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ me dumbdumb
absolutely invaluable tip, thanks for sharing
Been playing astro when it came out and did not know that! Thank you!
Thanks to AST i learned quickly which job symbol represented what job it is.
The system now is way easier than in heavensward times ( tbh, i liked the old system) it had more depth but it was the hardest healer job because of that
I've been playing AST as my main healer and even use it in my static and had no idea the cards had different borders. I knew they had which seal they give at the top of the card but I didn't know this. Thank you!
TL;DR: I'm glad to see someone echo the fact that you're encouraging learning first and optimize second, I've always read and found advice to push new healers to optimize right out of the gate, so kudos to the video.
I just wanted to say I appreciated this video. As someone who plays the role of a healer and who has been playing the role for the past three years in this game. It's nice to hear encouragement in trying the role without the mindset of immediately trying to optimize.
I've always seen advice to new healers that look like this: "If you have to cast a GCD heal, you're losing out on damage." And tbh, I have a reason to believe that's kind of why we have healers whether in PuGs or static settings who have the misunderstood fundamental of trying to optimize damage. Or rather, those healers who ONLY do damage, and no healing. There's no shame in throwing out GCD heals if it's necessary, you're not shit for casting something other than Energy Drain. Optimizing comes later through a ton of communication with a team.
Be vocal as a healer, especially with your co-healer if either of you feel something isn't right, this is a team game, we raid as a GROUP. Communicate and plan AS A GROUP and see what you can do together. A successful clear comes FIRST before optimizing damage. So yeah, this turned into a ramble but this video hit dif, and I wanted to just say good shit.
It's a mindset that you have to adapt to. Same with tanking, or dps with heavy positionals. First? Learn! Then--- Do your best. Lastly? Become the frikin best!
Can absolutely agree with this. I main DPS but really enjoy tanking and healing every so often. And sometimes, I have to actively remind myself to switch to the necessary mindset. I had it happen that I was the healer but my mind slipped off into the DPS mindset, so I just kept throwing damage out. I DID notice the tank getting low on health, eventually, with my mind going "Wow, the healer really should do something about tha- WAIT A SECOND! *hits oh-shit-button*"
Adapting to your role is important~
I think the worst part of the anxiety are toxic and rude players in higher level trials or dungeons, or sometimes even below. I know that's nothing you can avoid, you *will* cross paths with people like that, and the best thing would be to be above such things, but that's the really hard part... at least for me. :')
Always great to see Desperius content. I listen to your videos like audio books while at work, and its made me a much better player over the last year or so.
Thanks alot for the compliment !
I love how I see this video my first week as a healer. Thank you
im a Dark Knight main and recently picked up White mage, primarily for a Shadowbringers questline but still to learn healer and how it goes. I certainly appreciated the work of every healer before, and now I understand just how it feels to babysit every member of your party lol. i generally at least keep an eye on the hp of my party and when it gets too low, which depends on the circumstances in the trial, dungeon, etc, I go into healing priority until they are at a safe level and keep my eye up as I go back to damage if I don't need to heal others
I recently picked up healing, needing to level WHM and AST in order to get my classes to 80 (SCH being leveled by Virtue of SMN). I found healing as a general principle, is not hard. But what makes it difficult is the reliance on other people. As a healer I encountered all the meme's. The Dragoon and BLM who stood in every AOE. The DPS that ran from a stack marker. The Tank that did wall to wall pulls but didn't know what mitigation (or self sustain) was. And that one DPS who is impatient so while you're fighting group A they run and agro group B and bring it back. The benefit of being a healer however is, you can punish these people. Eat the same avoidable mechanic a few to many times? You stay on the floor. Run and agro a mob while the tank is busy with another? I don't heal you. I, myself, am confident in my ability to heal non-high-end content now, but ultimately the downside I have for healing is, it relies on other people having some common sense. Which is an uncommon trait.
yes i hate dumb people that have no self-preservation skills. then they blame me for being a “bad healer”. 🙄
I've only ever been angry at one healer when I was a tank in Aurum Vale. Healer decided to constantly stand in the toxic pools and tried to outheal the poison on themselves at the first boss despite everyone telling him to eat a fruit to clear it.
you absolutely nailed this man, whm main since launch and agree with all your points 100%
I'm glad this got put in my recommendeds. I have healer anxiety, but I think with this I can do it. I want to get all classes to level 80!
You will !
My FC leader would purposely try to kill himself when he tanks for us in dungeons (so that I (healer) would panic and scream in vc). He's a freaking sadist. But as a result of that, now I don't even blink when the tank goes down. I just run away and save myself and wait for him to respawn.
That's messed up. It's one thing to push limits, but to purposefully try to kill yourself? I'd never run with that dude. Just wasting everyone's time.
@@ryno4ever433 Haha. No no, you misunderstand. He's just messing with us. It's not mean spirited or malicious. The dude's awesome. Really knows his stuff. Taught us so much about how to play the game, how to deal with boss mechanics, etc. He crafts gear for us and takes us raiding. Couldn't ask for a better FC leader. But he's also a huge troll and once he knows you're comfortable with a class, he'll mess with you for the lols. Trolling one another is part of the fun of being in an FC.
@@morgant.n.8915 Ah I see Makes sense then!
Yeah the second comment made a lot more sense to understand what you’re saying at first I was thinking what a ahole then now I’m like ok he’s the class clown got it
Run away? What? Swift cast raise the tank and keep everyone alive until he's back up to take agro. If you're not ready to die trying to keep everyone alive you're not ready to heal 💪
I kinda really don't like healing in XIV precisely because of the anxiety. I have a short attention span so managing battle mechanics as well as healing and doing damage has always been kind of hard for me. This is especially challenging with astrologian and scholar since you also hafta manage your cards and summons properly. Did most of ARR as a white mage, wasn't too bad, but as soon as heavensward hit, it just felt like things became a little too much for me, so now i mainly do dps and tank (plus red mage and machinist became my favorite jobs). Tanking isn't too bad, and being dps is pretty freeing as there's not as much responsibility. The most I can say is probably to research the battle or dungeon mechanics beforehand and maybe watch a guide so you won't have to guess what's coming next. Also, it helps to really pay attention to your skill descriptions as I found too late i had been playing bard totally wrong.
overall, the job options for healing also just don't excite me too much, but I am hoping sage will change that as the class looks flashy and awesome. Who knows, maybe I'll give healing another chance when endwalker drops.
This video is out right at the moment I decided to renounce playing as a healer, because of bad experiences with incompetent tanks and the resulting anxiety. Also raids are traumatizing when you don't have much experience on this field. I was at the point where I just shut down the in-game chat by fear of being insulted.
Useless to say that this video eases my stress a little. I'd like to try giving a shot again, when I'm strong enough to respond appropriately to critics. Or not respond at all when I'm able to see that I'm not entirely at fault and certain person don't want to learn. Then... Well they can die if they not adjust for once. :)
After starting XIV as a melee DPS, I became a GNB main a while back after finally deciding to get over the tanxiety. I've recently picked up SCH and been thoroughly enjoying getting to grips with the final pillar that is the healer role. Being able to pull an overzealous tank from the brink of death was when I started to fall in love with being a healer. And then planning my OGCD heals and Sacred Soil for each add pull in dungeons is addictive.
Even if I ultimately decide to become a full-time GNB main for high-end content, spending time as a SCH has equipped me with the tools to be a better tank, as I now have a much better understanding what a good tank and a bad tank looks like. *That is why I think it's a great idea for every tank to try out a healer job.* Seriously, it might make you a better tank!
**Someone gets Doomed**
**Same someone doesn't complete the mechanics to get doom removed**
**Same someone dies due to doom**
That person: "Hearler let me die >:("
STEP ON THE GLOWING SQUARE, SWORD MONKEY!!
i think one of the biggest things that helped me heal is to start with overhealing then slowly learn when i can do damage and heal after, astro main btw
Kind of did the same when I tried to play healer for the first time. As time passed, I tried to wait a bit longer before healing the tank during pulls, and even longer after.
In regards to the first point about being nice to healers. TANKS please remember just because you aren't dying doesn't mean you don't need to pop a defensive cooldown. It can free up time for the healer to tend to other party members, save their mana, or even DPS.
I struggled with anxiety as a healer I started off as scholar and liked it. Played with main until about the end of hw. Then ran most of the patch content as red mage as I wanted a break from stressing about healing. I'd run things blind as it was my first time and sometimes I didn't think I'd do well or blame myself. Then it especially didn't help on the rare occasions when people got a bit annoyed. Now playing as a dps I start to notice people who don't move out of AOEs or mistakes sometimes. Then well think maybe it wasn't all my fault as the healer... Haha. I might go back one day to healing maybe if I have a friend with me for support
Great video! I agree that it isn't always the healer's fault and everyone has their job to fill as a team. Thought there are some healers who are salty divas immediately blaming the tank when the tank dies because they didn't follow instead of asking politely to go slower for them. Overall, ppl shouldn't be afraid to play tank and healer, the community in general is pretty cool and will most likely help if ppl need some tips.
Those people are most likely the same people blaming others when they play other jobs.
One thing i've learned in the past week of healing for the very first time is that it's okay if the tank's hp drops to 50% or lower because they have multiple cooldowns to use and will be using them if they have experience in the role. And also with decent gear, most of the time my Cure 2 heals about half of a tank's hp anyway. I was really anxious about keeping the tank topped off when i first started.
Learning some of tank mechanics is apart of the healers job 🤗
As a returning player I always tell my party that simple fact when I am healing or tanking, especially if it's a dungeon I have not seen (at all or) in a long time.
That so far has negated every drama for me. As tank I usually also stop before pulling a boss to ask if there is something I should be wary about. But usually it's just "Don't spin the boss and DDR away with your tank'n'spank."
I did muck up a dungeon tonight by having not the tank in as target and blowing all my CDs in panic mode and watch him die anyway, since... you know, it all got cast on me. XD
I said it was my fault, which is true, and apologized. That was enough. That and the insta-combat-rez of course to stabilize my woupsie.
But everybody was super-chill about it.
And that's it really. People in FFXIV are very patient and relaxed and if you are not afraid to say you messed up and say sorry and sprinkle in a bit of good-natured humor and humility only the most vile and trollish of people will ever give you a hard time.
And those folks are absurdly rare in 14. Seriously.
You would have to look real hard and long to find somebody that is giving you shit after you apologized and took responsibility if you messed up.
The general answer I get is usually "Don't worry about it. It's fine. All is well. You're good."
I CANNOT overstate how much this is a factor in my decision to return, time and time again. I always know returning to 14 is a breeze because people are just that chillaxed.
Healer has always been my favorite role since I played WoW. But with my pepega attention span, general lack of situational awareness, and especially DPS expectations make XIV's healers feel x3 more difficult to play in comparison.
Healing in wow is extremely boring. I hated it so much before FF14. Now I'm loving it.
Video starts with Blue Fields - I hit like and subscribe.
Also I have no idea why I'm not subscribed yet, I've seen like 20 of your videos XD
One thing to add - at the start of a dungeon or trial, don't be afraid to say you're new to healing and open to feedback about how you can do better. Everyone wants there to be more good healers, and as long as you're willing to learn (and actually make an effort to learn from your mistakes, not just say you're "still learning" as an excuse to not give a shit), people will generally be helpful. That doesn't mean there won't be assholes, but overall it makes the experience much smoother.
Wow, literally just quit being healer due to anxiety a week ago and now I see this video lol.
Just quit today lmao. The anxiety was killing me. Gonna give Red Mage a go, and maybe come back when I’ve gained some confidence.
In the words of the Priestess..."You get used to it." Most of the time deaths are not your fault. Unless the tank is not doing tank things, nobody else should be taking too much damage.
It's fun as a healer, i like it. I don't blame the healers. If you make enough stupid mistakes as a DPS or Tank, that's your own fault. I don't mind healers helps damaging enemies, as long you're more focused on your team. Everyone can make mistakes, even i did. You'll learn from it.
Healing and tanking is fun!
@Nick Jordan Then whenever they add healer rotations people will complain oh no too many buttons to press D:
@Nick Jordan I started playing as a healer back in Heavensward and have played one ever since. I've never had any issue with the changes they made to healers.
I'd rather press one thing over and over than have to worry about the timers on a bunch of different dots. Which is kinda funny since I like playing Bard which has dots to keep up as a key part of how they are played.
I always play with randoms, so I never know how things are going to go with the party and my healing them. Keeps things interesting.
@Nick Jordan sounds like someone's only ever played whm. Poor boy
@Nick Jordan It's for that reason I don't think I could heal with any job other than AST, those cards make all the difference. Rip the old system but they still provide consistent breaks to the monotony and being random there's always a little thought required, then if people die or have gimped dps in a certain phase or are about to blow cds you have to keep track to decide who gets buffs, then shit hits the fan and you have to keep doing all that while also keeping people alive. Great fun. AST cards may be my favorite mechanic in the game.
Tanking however just feels way too loose in FFXIV, I can't stand it. I did some tanking in WoW and it was quite satisfying to leap in and instantly snap aggro on everything, but in FFXIV there's an awkward delay to everything and it's so much worse for tanking because I'll aoe a group and they'll keep running past me for a second so I have to wait and make sure I actually got aggro, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't it's fucking irritating. Meanwhile I'll play a healer and watch tanks sprint through mobs without using any abilities, nearly die then all the mobs go to me for healing them then they pick 'em up after (usually) so maybe it doesn't matter but that's not the kind of experience I want to give my groups lol.
@Nick Jordan is it really that boring? I was just thinking to start ff since I main heal in a lot of games in Competitive environment but I was scared watching some guide that it would be just a three button spam, hope its not
There's definitely a balance between not blaming the healer but also not blaming the person who died. I'm a healer main with 90 Sage and Scholar and running a Shadowbringers dungeon as PLD, and there was a Sage queued with a Mentor DPS in my party. The sage was probably new to the class and was barely casting heals at all. I ended up dying 2 times during the run and the second time the healer didn't realize I died and kept casting spells on the enemies. The mentor ended up yelling at me because I slightly overlapped the duration of 2 of my mitigations, and they explained that they had PLD level 90 and it was my fault I died. I had to resist the urge to tell them that I'm a healer main with two at level 90 including the one the healer was playing -- I would never have issue healing in a run where the tank overlaps mitigations in a simple main scenario dungeon. At the end of the day, I agree it's usually not the healers fault, but you should also take that concept with a grain of salt instead of blaming the person who died.
As a scholar main, I have a thing of “anyone half health with no shields? Okay succor. That get everyone? Cool, back to broil” and that usually gets me through most content while keeping my fairy regen going. Unless it’s the bosses “im’a murder you now” phase.... then I’m a lil more proactive about it.
I picked my WHM back up after avoiding it for years. I'm glad I did.
It's normal to get anxious when you're trying for the first time to be a healer but trust me if you keep practicing and learning that anxiety will turn into excitement 💗
Hoenstly when I started FFXIV I avoided Healing classes like the plague because of my past experience as a support main on Overwatch lmao. IK they are entirely different games but the toxicity I get from that put me off healing. So I started tanking and then found my favourite role in Bard. After a while I wanted to try healer thoughso picked up WHM and it is quite fun! I like the balance between keeping your team topped up and adding damage to the enemies, and I love playing the 'How low can your team go before you need to heal them' game. There have been a few times where I could do better and a party member died, but failure is something you need to improve at tihngs so I don;t worry too much about it and actually learn from it! Want to try another healing class out too to see what it's like!
I actually started with Conjurer and went to whitemage until I hit level 50y everything was fine by then. But one day I got the darkhold in my daily roulette and miserably failed at the passage after the first boss (with the toads). Got ranted and flamed at resulting in me shame-quitting the game and only returning a few hours later never touching healer again, only to realize in the next month that with every sprout party I at least wiped once in this duty at the same spot. I shouldn't have left during my healer run back then which is why I always try to make healers comfortable when we wipe. At some point I maybe allow an FC member to teach me healing again 😩
Damn I'm really sorry that happened. It's super easy to wipe on the toad pull since they can push you off the immediate area and separate you from the party. Completely understandable place to wipe especially if it's randoms you are playing with.
If you know someone who plays tank and are friends with i highly recommend doing content with them. It can really ease the tension and you can laugh/learn through mistakes
@@Astraldymensions what dps and tanks should do to prevent the push back from toads is use their stun abilities TBH.
@@Astraldymensions thanks for the advice, I really like to tank and respect those who have to heal me through all the bs i am doing :D
yes, the best way to learn a healer is to do it with people that allow mistakes to happen and even have some good advices and tips for your rotation
@@ohnuza1798 I agree but there are two or three toads iirc. The tank stunning one is common but rarely do other dps have the awareness to stun the others. It's just another thing that is so rarely asked of casual players to do. As a result most people don't think to stun as dps in general
On the section with the toads and AOE crystals, tanks and melee DPS must hug the wall. Worst case is they get hit with Labored Leap, but they do not fall to their deaths. Tanks can also engage the toads one by one. If you are melee DPS, stun the frog so you can maintain your positionals.
Lol funny i had just given up on leveling my WHM because of healer anxiety and then this video is posted
Saaaame! High five!
There is probably too much expectation on healers to also dps as much as they can, and for some, this can easily lead to them forgetting to heal as much as they need to, or to save dps from standing in the yuck.
Being a tank, I can say that the worst healers are those that put their DPS over healing. Running into a dungeon today, I was at a level I don't have self heals for my paladin, so the healer kept doing DPS, only healing me when I was under 5% HP
I was fine with it if it would keep me alive, but instead I kept dying over and over because he refused to keep me above 10%
I asked him to put the minimum hp I had a bit higher to avoid burst damages, but he went toxic. Was my first bad healer case.
Apart from that, I love you healers you are all my best friends as a tank lol
EDIT: Just have to point out I was confident in my ability to do mitigation. I usually had at least 1 in cooldown, plus another one when in a pack of mobs. At this point I cannot do better than that
I think this kind of thing is happening because SO many guides out there for healers put an emphasis on the fact that the healer should be DPSing as well, and not JUST standing there healing. Then a lot of these beginners (like myself before I quit WHM for RDM literally today) never really learn to heal because they’re so focused on trying to DPS and heal at the same time. Not saying you shouldn’t DPS on healer, just saying you should learn to heal efficiently first, then begin to incorporate DPS. Not the other way around like it seems many people are being taught. Either way sorry for your bad experience man, Tank can be just as stressful as Healer, y’all don’t deserve that stuff.
yup, there are some bad healers out there, they want to run before learning to walk and forget their priority is healing. I hate it when my tank down to a tiny dot of hp before dying and still not receive any heals. I am sorry I have to pop my clemency, not that i don't trust their heal but they are making the tank insecure, when you make the tank insecure then is a fail as a healer. I know there is a skill on AST can heal you full instantly but that is too much risk for the whole party to take to allow such extremely low hp happen.
I play everything, but most of the time i go with Bard, but Paladin is fun, as healer, well i played Astro, but after the new update i didn't touch it even once, i will try something else sometime:))
I like healing, I like keeping my party alive on seemingly impossible overpulls in dungeons. I'm no good at established openers and stuff though. I will always try to keep everyone alive as best as I can. I will never prioritize dealing damage but I will absolutely do it when there's a chance and I feel comfortable with the skill of my party. Never be afraid to ignore dealing damage and instead focusing on your healing when you feel uncomfortable with a group or a dungeon/raid/boss mechanic.
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as someone that came over from WoW I really like how easy it is to weave dps into healing, but healing is top priority when you are a healer. Playing a WHM right now to get a feel for it, I used to play a discipline priest in WoW so once I get more dungeons memorized out I would not mind the shield healing, but till I get there WHM and reactive healing is the way to go. Plus, burning out my retinas with holy is fun lol. Also, I am starting to get why people are into a parasitic plant getting fed the precious. I have also gotten good at swiftcasting rez when people ignore mechanics. I have noted that dungeon memorization is high priority in FF14 since in the end game dungeons you really do not have time to just react to things before things kill you but it becomes much easier once you figure out the visual clues and patterns.
Knowledge is also key, later on you'll want to pay attention to the Enemy status bar so that you can time your heals to the cast, depending on Tank-Buster or unavoidable AOE.
Not sure about how Sage will be, but SCH isn't too rough - nowhere near as thoughtful as disc priest. If you're like me, though, you'll feel right at home when you start the kit.
Scholar's shielding lasts for a whopping 30s, which is way more forgiving than PW:S at 15s. Plus, you get Selene/Eos which heals as you deal damage, so it can feel similar to your light Atonement healing (albeit permanent and 1 target at a time). You'll get something similar to bubble, but you'll trade your 60s for 30s in exchange for lower power.
It's easy to throw Physick (a weak, single target heal) in the trash, but I find it to be a useful spot heal tool, similar to SMend... as in, I'd rather not have to, but I will.
In truth, you probably don't need to learn the dungeons as much as you think you might. The mechanics can be learned on the fly if you're paying attention and, even when failed, rarely outright kill you. For Disc, I know how punishing it was not knowing a fight, typically because you'd lacked any real powerhouse group spells. In comparison, FFXIV's Scholar has a couple extra "things are going bad" tools to help you recover.
@@VozmezdieSoldier nice, yeah it's 10 seconds before a damage window time to burst my spirit shell rarw...though holy being the best healing spell in dungeons has a certain appeal, I will level up all the healers before Endwalker and obviously a sage when its out. Along with my red mage and Dancer, I think right now cause that is fun if a bit chaotic so far lol. I mained Red Mage in FF11 so it has a special place in my heart and I get swift cast all the time instead of once every two hours and never have to cast refresh so it's nice...even if lucid dreaming is the same thing they get to press the button. The irony will be if I do not end up being the healer in my static party of friends lol.
WHM was my first, and still is my main job, good fun 👍
Whether you play as a tank or healer, I strongly suggest you level your Company Squadron and Trust System. Both allowed me to learn tanking without worry of being ranted at by toxic healers and dps.
Your Company Squadron will have most dungeons from ARR to Heavensward, and the Trust System will have most of the Shadowbringer dungeons (with the exception of the optional ones). If you do end up using the Trust System, I strongly suggest bringing Alphinaud as your healer.
The only odd time you will have to tank with real people will be Stormblood as there's no Trust or Company Squadron system in place, but either by then you'll know enough about tanking to do it with real people or you can just use the daily PvP roulette in combination with Heaven-on-High to get you from 60 to 70.
Another option from 71-80 is doing Bozja. I personally alternated between Bozja and the Trust System when leveling my tanks as I loved both.
my stress from healing as SCH and AST, when the co healer WHM is only spamming holy and glare..i mean even in boss fights, even after tank buster and AOE...even when the whole party is only at 10% health..please medica II?
This! As capable as I am I'm not the only healer co-healer so help us out!
this!! I was healing fricken HADES extreme with a WHM who wouldn’t help me heal to full on DOOM. as a SCH i can do no more after my mini burst that I saved up, please use your medica oh my god
@@vinea4659 Scholar be like : i've used my crit indom, why we still wipe?
Looking at glare-happy WHM
Oh, i see. My co-healer keep staring at the boss instead of healing
I have the opposite problem as a whm lol any time my co healer is a sch they literally never help, even to raise people. I guess they just expect their fairy to do all the work
@@RenoftheRain i'm the opposite of this, i always said to my co-healer lemme raise/heal first because i still can't gauge how much the damage the boss deal
Great video with great tips :) Thank you for your hard work.
.... when my friend drag me into savage after not playing for a long period of times... and my only lvl 80 is a white mage...
Before I even watch the video. I pretty much play healer in all MMOs I play as it comes natural to me. However, even in my younger days, I always got frustrated with playing anything BUT healer because I've seen people mess it up so much and I could never understand how other people can find it so difficult. I try to remind myself when I see people trying, that it doesn't come natural to everyone. So it helps to understand from other perspectives to help be more... forgiving.
I'm not even new to healing and I like watching these.
I gotta admit, I purposely browse the Healer hate posts on purpose to laugh at the excuses people give as to why the healer was the one at fault and never the OP. Healer mains rise up.
I learned to multitarget cast. Which is to say while casting glare on an enemy, I switch to my friend and start spamming a cureII then when it begins casting I switch back to the enemy for another salvo.
For some reason i really enjoy playing healer in dungeons. As a wow player that jump into ffxiv again (last time was 2017), and in wow i avoid healing like the plague, it's hard to say... It just feel better, and even when im just lvl 60 most of the time the community is very chill with new players, and that gave ne alot of confidence to embrace my white mage
I have mained WHM since this game came out but I still get healer anxiety when it comes to newer dungeons because, let's be real, there's a lot of asshats online anywhere. What I try to do is always run my first time through the dungeon with at least 1 friend on the team, ideally all friends. Then you not only get to experience the mechanics but you get the feel for how a dungeon is suppose to go when it's done with people who are good at their job. This is how I realize when people are being bad at their jobs in a dungeon and that it's not me in DFs. Like for example, one time, I was wondering why the mobs weren't dying fast enough and I almost run out of MP keeping the tank alive every other pull. I realized at the first boss, when the boss got to do his attack rotation TWICE when he was supposed to be DEAD before he got to his second time around, that it wasn't me OR the tank but the DPSs who weren't doing nearly enough damage to warrant safe room pulls (or anything else for that matter) who were at fault and I immediately stopped feeling bad.
from what i can see in videos without actually having been there yet
is that a ton of boss mechanics in this game are you mess it up you dead...as in most mechanics seem to be one shots with the ones you are supposed to heal being very close to it or easily healed through so yeah i would say especially in this game it is very often peoples faults for dying not a healers
Desperius: all healers have 1 dot and 1 dps spell
Me as a sch: i have broill III, ruin II and Energy drain for dps \o/ xD
Tbf, that's the scholar equivalent to AST Earthly star and WHM Assize, with the healing half being an alternate use rather than at the same time. With Afflatus Misery WHM has the most dps skills now, since Scholar lost all it's dots.
@@dootdootington386 earthly star and assize are dps/heal spell whilst energy drain is a straight dps spell with pitiful self heals tbh
whm has glare, dia, assize and afflatus misery. healer? no, whm is the 3rd dps
1:46 Bozja "raids" feel really bad for this. group with 5 healers, tank dies 4 times on the same boss, because they all think healing is someone else's job and they only queued healer due to being sick of getting in groups with no healer, while all using potions to lower healing output and increase damage.
Don't overthink healing when you start. If you're scared, it's fine to heal all the time at first. To be fair, there are only a few content where the dps of healers is mandatory. Just get into it slowly. Knowing the fights helps a lot in knowing when you can dps, when you need to heal the tank, when you need to pop a aoe heal etc.
I used to feel guilty when a dps died in my team... now I blame them for not dodging the aoe :D
Currently getting every job to 80 and I put off whm and astro for the longest time. I tried sch and did not enjoy the fairy mechanics and Shields. Regen is definitely my strongest suit and I always go Regen for astro even if we have 2 of them. But yeah it isn't so bad now.
New to healing but I focus on tank more and get the dps when I have the time lol
I think something needs to be said specifically for healing, and that is that it’s not rigid like a DPS prio or rotation. It can feel very freeing to heal and actually have open choice for which spell you want to cast
Depend on the dps, when you know the jobs, many dps have quite flexible rotation, and you often have room to delay your burst/buffs. I don't really see a différence, in the sense that you have to use your tools to do the job in the most effective way you can. I would say that healer is about Adapting, more so than dps given the run, but not so much freedom. Many healer i had told me that in perfect runs, healing is boring. BUT : it rarely happens outside of a good static.
I have serious dps and tank anxiety but healing feels like HOME for me lol
I enjoy both predictive and reactionary gameplay that healer provides and I love to challenge myself with solo healing extreme trials
Healing can feel extremely rewarding for both yourself and your party!
Well since people might see this here are some tips from 4 years of white mage experience:
1)WHM is probably the best healer to start the game with since you don't have to bother with shielding and mitigations(at least not that much).
2)WHM allows you to recover from unexpected damage for example: If a tank gets tankbustered and is very low on hp you have 3 instant healing "buttons" to use Aflatus/tetragramaton/benediction in fact you can combo a cure into aflatus into tetragramaton and they will be in full health again ;)
3)While you do have single target healing WHM has 2 instant aoe heals that can help you refill all of your party's health really fast AND having access to medica 2 allows you to use it and you will be 100% sure that they will be healthy when they really need to.
4)If DPS classes dies to mechanics IT IS NOT your fault for not healing them, most of the times when you get hit by a mechanic you could avoid you get punished with a damage invulnerability that means someone didn't do a mechanic correct or didn't dodge the attack, don't panic, heal them normally and if by any chance you wipe, no worries you will try again.
5)When everyone has full health and no one is taking any damage you can use your dps skills, just apply your aero/dia and spam stone/glare, healers have some respectable damage numbers so you really help the team by dealing damage.Of course since your rotation is literally pressing 1 button you can focus your attention on other things like healthbars/mechanics etc.
6)You have a shield, use it when a tank is about to take heavy damage from tank busters, they will love you for that, trust me.
7)You are the only class that can kill your party members, there is a little good skill called "Rescue" where you can pull a teammate to you in order to rescue them......or... you could send them to their deaths by pulling them in a bottomless pit or a death zone and what can i say, it feels fun knowing that i can kill anyone i want if i truly desire it.
8)Relax and have fun.
9)If a gunbreaker uses Superbolide when you use benediction let them die, they will learn.(memes must be memed)
People from NA data centers are very chill people from my experience and you will rarely find toxic players on easy content like story dungeons and trials.
I just started healing 2 weeks ago, fell in love and played healing class almost exclusively ever since.
I did have a couple of bad run ins with the 'oh so superior' mentor class.
It was the 4 man in the stormblood castle with me, tank and 1 dps being sprouts. Monk mentor kept pulling big causing the inexperience me and tank to struggle greatly in keeping him alive.
Then the dick had the audacity to hurl insults at us calling us noobs (which was true).
And since I don't chat at all, I expressed all of my annoyance with inaction.
No heal or res ever came his way till the end of the raid.
Naturally, he kept the insults coming but it sure was hell fun to watch him die again and again.
I had a healer blame themselves for resing me during an aoe phase but I blame myself for pressing "accept" too early :)
This is one of the most common mistakes new players make. The res has a minute to be accepted and if there is a large mechanic happening, just wait. There’s no point coming back to life to swallow some massive cleaves and immediately die again.
In fact, the healer *should* be rezzing immediately and then leaving the timing to you so that they can get Swiftcast back off cooldown as soon as possible.
You also have 6 seconds of invulnerability when you respawn in which you can move but if you don’t carry out any actions, you can’t be killed
Remember healers! You have the best tool in the game.... Rescue! For that toxic tanks/dps or new players who dont know all the mechanics yet! What you decide to do with that info is up to you :3.
Only recently started playing FFXIV and really enjoying playing healer for the most part, except those tanks that keep moving constantly and complain you aren’t doing your job (note to tanks not all or our skills are instant so we do need them to stay in range to heal at times). But overall I’m finding healers most fun to play
how do you literally always know what roles/jobs I'm starting to get into
Yeah no kidding. Last night I healed an alliance raid and, imo, did a garbage job. So I spent last night trying to find a useful video on healing, and then this one was freshly posted.
Fr! I just started SCH to lvl my SMN
I love your WHM glam 😳
I think for me it just took a lot of trial and experience. WHen I started off healing as SCH? Nervous af. WHM? Ok this is the one people say is easy, so I felt better about this. AST? I was anxious about bc I've heard of the complexity, but by that time I had gotten comfortable enough with the role and it became my favorite of the 3!
I started to enjoy playing healer in exper dungeons because your average dungeon time lowers by alot.
There are to many "party needs to be 100% hp and I only need to heal" healers and you feel how much longer a dungeon takes with them.
So by playing healer by myself I can tell the tank to pull everything and then just holy spam the enemys down.
I would say don't worry about damage until you are comfortable with just healing in general then when you get that down start learning to throw in some damage. Learning to not blow all your mp is the most important rule of healing if you don't have mp that's when the wipe will come.
I used to play healer a long time ago and quit when I was told by Streamer Mr.Happy and dozens of other people the Healers are 100% DPS first and Healer second. I was actually kicked from groups doing roulette's because I wasn't DPSing when there was no need for me to do so and just healing. I also quit doing end game content as at the time the end game community was EXTREMELY toxic and would kick people and even just abandon raids after just one wipe.
Funny enough I can't remember ever blaming a Healer for me dying, but boy do I often wonder why some hardly Esuna anything at all
If regen type spells are able to counter the damage of a dot, I don't esuna it.
@@ffrulezok same, I mostly Esuna mobility hindrances when I know a mechanic is happening soon (:
As my friend and I have always told the sprouts: "If your not Donald Duck, your not a bad healer." that always cheers them up
There's times where tanks put healers in position where they just can't heal fast enough or have enough MP to support the team or in my case got teamed up with a white mage in a level 49 dungeon (forgot the name, it's the one with Gold lung damage overtime debuff) just now, whom solely focused on DPS till keep on forgetting to heal everyone (we got wiped at least 4 times) I literally had to keep on using Hi-Potions to keep myself alive.....
I too used main White Mage till level 50, if I were in that other healers shoes I would feel utterly offended to see people using potions when I'm around as it shows how incompetent I am as a healer (unless there's communication where I ran out of MP and need time to recover hence its ok to use potions) ...... but as a DPS (current Black Mage, I had to do it to keep myself alive)
I'm addicted to the Queue privileages. I usually only DPS anymore when I'm with friends. I usually know what kills me - like the DPS who runs AOEs into me, or my own stupid ass when I eat too much pain for breakfast. Still, I do love them blood lilies....
I didn't start with a god complex. I only wanted to help. But yeah, the pressure of "It's up to me who lives or dies" is a matter of perspective. It's either the weight of the world or that feeling of power when the dragoon tanks the floor for the tenth time and you're like "Sorry, the Monk is doing a better job of staying alive, I'll get you... eventually" But seriously, I love DPS who know their rotations and how to stay out of the bad. :) I used to get frightened by every AOE marker and prey icon, so I would run away or into the healer without realizing it. Healing helped me DPS better... and then I started maining Healer XD
When I play as healer I focus on healing and not dps now I am still low level and not end game but my foucus for me anyways as a healer is healing not dpsing because I came from wow and it was easier to foucus on healing as a healer and let the dps do there job my job is to keep you alive not dps a boss
start playing recently have to say as a new player i do try make healer life easier avoiding unecessary damage on me and if i can i even heal myself with some ability every job has i think (not sure on this)
I started off as a WHM and didn't really think it was too bad. I moved on to BLM tho and have much more fun with it, personally. Even thought about trying out a tank once I unlock squadrons
I have serious healer anxiety. I asked a friend who heals all the time in alliance what advice he'd give and he said, "just do it".
I mean, that pretty much goes without saying haha. Just be patient with yourself, try not to do more than you're comfortable with. Also ask the tank ahead of time to keep it slow...two pulls are just enough to make sure you get comfortable with everything. Then once you've had enough practice and exposure, you'll be begging the tank to pull wall to wall haha.
I'll admit that when Sage came out, I probably made the worst decision of deciding it would be the first healer I'd run. First dungeon I ran was with randos. Not a good time.
Did absolutely freaking terrible. Almost swore it off because I got chewed up and spit out in the party chat, but it was thanks to one other player who just waited until they were gone to talk.
That Sage is the class I finished Endwalker with, and now I'm working on Scholar to be an even better healer than when I started learning the role as a Sage.
Were those two players toxic? Maybe - I definitely misstepped many times trying to remember all the actions, but it was also up to them to utilize movement and maybe speak with a bit more patience and grace. Sage had just come out and I wasn't going to start out as a master of it.
You aren't either.
Feed your blood lilies. /laugh at the boss that killed you last time, poison them, and try again. Shoot the boss until your tank is worried about you...or...do some fortune telling (ain't worked on AST yet)?
Don't give up on working through the discomfort of being a healer. At some point, you too will be able to scoff at the mitless tank and laugh at the over-eager DPS when they blame you for their fourth repeat misstep, and more importantly, your friends who love to play with you will love to play with you even more.
#JustKeepCasting
Guy who stands in boss mechanics: you suck, heal meee! Trash!
Me the healer who did nothing wrong: You shall now be left for the crows to feast upon.
The reason I like to have my group at 100% is that I still cant predict when raid- or grp-aoe is coming in. So I keep them nice and up at least around 90% so they survive that. The Triad boss in Delubrum e.g. does two nasty raid aoes in a row (and I only know that because... well, I ran that raid quite often... like... very often ^^°). If the group isnt topped up, they die. Or just yesterday in Dalriada during the "soft enrage" of Diabolos: granted, the healers were hard pressed, but one aoe was enough and almost the entire grp wiped (fun fact: a little later I got raised the moment the boss did another aoe - everyone died the moment I got up XD )
Maybe this just my anxiety speaking... Worst part is when I keep an eye on the tank, see him going below 50% while still casting my Glare, thinking "ok, next a heal then..." - and then he dies >.< And its not even that he didnt use any cd's - he just drops o.O
It's also okay to not want to heal if it ends up making you feel miserable with anxiety 😅
I need to practice healing more. I just don't wanna sit there spam healing only (low level dungeon, tanks forget we don't have our full rotations it seems). Trying to get all jobs up before EW but I still need StB and ShB xD
as a WHM main.. I'd really like a secondary attack and not another dot... GlareMaging is kinda boring as hell, even keeping everyone alive. It doesn't have to be a frequent thing, just something to shake the rotation up, something like a 20 second cool down attack would be nice. (sure the lilies help, but they require 3ish minutes to deal another "attack")
Recently when healing all with all the new sprouts. They’re like I’m new clearly afraid of messing up not knowing mechanics. I’m like death!!! They freak out lol. I’ll say it’s ok to mess up and die ur new and learning it’s expected.
It took me years and years to realize that people dying could potentially be beyond my control. I had to finally play DPS to understand what 'optional damage' meant. I should have done it sooner, I could have defended my honor better. either way now it's part of why I have anxiety -- it's not that I think it's my fault, it's that I know nobody wants to be told they're showing their ass
The real issue is WHM who can't be bothered to stop their glare / holy spam to heal. I main tank and I have to keep HQ Max pots on my hotbar for this reason alone. I shouldn't have to pop more than one miti for a 2-3 group pull because the WHM refuses to even think about touching a healing button. I've been yelled at and "rescued" forward for only going one group at a time when that happens and it's the most irritating thing and usually ends with them getting shirked.
I feel like the rare white mage in these comments bitching about them now that always makes sure the parties health is fine before dps spamming.