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New to MMOs. Started 14 3 weeks ago. First a bard. Easy enough. Wanted to try healing. Easy enough. Got to that infamous dungeon, I think level 48. Couldn't cast esuna fast enough. We wipe several times. I panicked. I told them I'm sorry and maybe healing isn't for me. I quit that dungeon. I didn't want to hold them up any longer. Long story short, I kept at. Just started HW, my main the the WM. But the pressure that the whole dungeon was a failure because of me still lingers. But perhaps that's why I like being the healer. Like commented and subscribed 👍
Rookie Healer: "But how can I be okay with my party members getting killed?" Veteran Healer: "True...... but have you consider that, maybe, they were just too stupid to live?"
WHM pre lvl 74: Oh gee, these guys are taking too much damage, I’m using cure. II so much I’m running out of mana! WHM lvl 74+: YES! THE BLOOD LILY HUNGERS FOR YOUR VITALITY! BLEED FOR ME!
I was terrified of healing for the longest time (admittedly it's still not my favourite role). But once you learn to relax you panic less and just shrug off the accidents. It's remarkable how quickly one goes from "omg gotta keep everyone at 100%" to "eh, rub some dirt on it and slap on a regen, you'll be fine." Bless to all you healers out there, you do good work.
@@EverydayEorzean If nobody died to anything unavoidable, I did my job as a healer. Or as I like to put it, "your safety is my concern. Your comfort is not." :P
One of the biggest advice I give to struggling/panicking healers is: "Plant yourself and just cast. There is nothing more powerful than a casting healer." You'd be surprised at how much it changed the attitude of many sproutling casters and produced the biggest change in ability. Whereas they struggled prior to my advice, they didn't really struggle after this. I even watched one eat an aoe to the face and just soldier forth. It was glorious
At some point I started tracking damage numbers and thinking "100k - 95k in damage... You'll live with 5k HP. that's fine". it took a while for my static to realize I actually knew they wouldn't die and wasn't getting lucky lmao
The silly thing about healing is that the low level dungeons give you a wrong impression about what you need to do long term. You only get a straight heal and tanks don't have much mitigation/self-healing. Over time you acquire regen spells and tanks are way hardier and you have to adapt your playstyle.
Good to know. I'm just starting out this past week as conjuror. Which seemed closest to Shaman in Wow, though eventually I'll be a white mage I guess. I've only healed 3 dungeons so far, or maybe it was 4. It's gone well enough, but I know it will get much harder, the first 4 dungeons are pretty easy.
To be honest i disagree.. your point overall isn't wrong but the modern ffxiv healing requires more uptime in ruin and stone than cure and succour, because the game lack of true balance people are synced the healer has the time to actually practise to switch between ATT and Support because of the lack of overall healing needed.
@@Vokcas01 I agree to an extent, I think we may have interpretted the comment differently. At lower levels there is definitely time to do damage and not a whole lot of damage going out. What I meant by my healing style changing by expansion is due to the lack of diversity in your healing options through ARR. If you're starting as a new player, you only have conjuer as your healer option , and conjurer doesn't get regen until 35 - which is a handful of dungeons in. Not to mention you have absolutely no oGCD heals until 50. Compare that to how you heal at max level (primarily from regens and oGCDs) and you have a completely different healing style. Players go the first expansion of the game where you area really learning and developing habits not being introduced to these methods. To be fair, I'm looking at this from an optimization standpoint of saving as many GCDs for damage as possible, which definitely wont' be the case for most players.
So here is my opinion. You have to learn to adapt. The game cannot teach you how you should be playing, in end game dungeons, at the beginning of the game. Firstly it will overwhelm players trying out tanking or healing for the first time. If you had all the end game abilities available and you tanked a dungeon with Ifrit (extreme) level mechanics at level 10-20, i guarantee you will roll dps and just forget about healing/tanking. Early game is to get you into things, mid game reveals more complex mechanics, but provides abilities to deal with that and late game pushes your knowledge and abilities to the limits by working as a team. As a player in any dungeon you have to remember, you are not a one person team! Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Enjoy!
Whenever i am teaching new healers how to heal i ask them "who is the most important person in teh party?" 9/10 they say the tank. Wrong! I tell them it's yourself!. You are the most important person in the party and exactly for the reason you describe! ❤
I don't remember the exact quote, but I remember someone saying "DPS is just preemptive healing; the enemy can't hurt you if they're dead". Lovely video, you have such a nice vibe about you!
I miss Cleric Stance so much, but I know it had to die to make the game more accesible to old and new players alike ;__;. Still, I think about it every time I Broil a thing.
*me watching this even though Ive been healing in mmorpgs for 11years* “hmmm interesting” something I was told tho “a dead healer is useless” so yes! listen to her! STAY ALIVE!
Your second point is a great one. All of them are helpful, but that is something that can seem obvious, until you die to a predictable AoE because you were so focused on everyone else.
LOL! Yep! I can't tell you how many times I've died trying to squeeeeeze in that last cast to cure or raise someone... only to end up being the one that needs the raise.
i died to the levi knocking you out of the ring mechanic like 8 times straight cause i was too focussed on everyone else to remember to move to the edge of the ring...that was painful
Im a newbie on the game. and this is my first mmorpg. I chose a WHM, and this video really lift my spirits up. Since i sometimes think im a bad white mage. Thank you for all your tips :)
Welcome to MMOs and the FFXIV community! I'm glad the video could help. I definitely felt that way in the beginning too :/. Keep it up and keep at it, the important thing is having fun!
Healer is a role that require more consciousness and attention than any other role. So take your time get used to many things. It will feel overwhelming at first but you'd feel satisfied and rewarded when you get it. Dive into state of "in zone", dancing around harmlessly while keep those poor guys alive. That's feel so good. On the other hand, Tank need a lot of charisma and confidence. While DPS need to squeezing every drop of their possible damage out of their class while stay out of harm. So every role has their hard point. And no one good at any of that from start. It's just because healer could feel our mistake more often than any other role. While DPS may didn't notice when they does low damage.
Something to note as healer is how valuable Esuna can be in dispelling harmful Debuffs. It can be quite invaluable for your sanity in some encounters to just esuna that pesky "Sludge" Debuff which you don't have to focus on healing through the 30 seconds its on a Party Member if you can just dispell it and be done with it. You can tell if a Debuff is dispellable or not by a blue line above the debuff icon. If there is one you can Esuna it, if there is none you cannot. Hope it helps, if not you maybe someone else who reads this. :)
Hope you enjoy the game! If you ever need people to play with there are always discords out there! You can even put your username and your World and Data Center out! Have fun!
I started this week and I went healer because: 1.- I *HATE* waiting in the party finder for hours. 2.- I love WHM's aesthetics (both spells and armor sets), plus, they're not uncapable of dishing dmg out (Great for when I have to play solo) and 3.- I'm excited for the Sage! Since I've always loved supporting with shield bars instead of heals whenever that's available in the games I play. So of course it's nice to run into videos like this. Thanks for making it and I hope there's more videos coming!
Why are you using a WHM instead of SCH or AST to support with shields? I know WHM looks cool for you, but you don't have to wait for Sage to use shield support.
#2 is actually very valuable. I learned that lesson in The Vault on the final boss. Every time we got tethered I would try to break the tether, but at the same time try to heal whomever I was tethered to and I'd end up dying. Which of course meant we'd wipe. It wasn't until I said, "Screw it, I have to keep myself alive first," and prioritized healing myself that suddenly everything worked. It went against all my instincts as a healer, to heal thyself first, but it was what got me through that fight.
for the vault, i always distance myself from others as much as possible apart from aoe healing to avoid dealing with a tether. slidecasting also is a life saver for maintaining dps while running away.
I'd like to add one more point to this: know your class! Half the game's combat is knowing how to play your class, and having the confidence to play your class goes a long way to doing well in fights. That means knowing to cast Cure II over Cure I, popping Lucid Dreaming regularly for MP, and just knowing what your spells and abilities do in general. A lot of new healer grievances are actually neatly solved by your kit, so read your spell descriptions!
YES! Excellent comment! Knowing your class is critical, as some of our abilities are sneaky and have multiple uses/benefits or change over time as we level.
@@buxus3770 In general, you'll want more healing over mana efficiency, because healing your party in one cast instead of two leaves you more time to do damage, and your mana is getting constantly replenished by lucid dreaming anyway. Towards the late game, white mages don't even have to cast Cure 2 barring extraordinary circumstances.
@@buxus3770 This is kind of a nuanced thing as it's going to depend on what kind of content you're taking on and your play style. It falls under Lesson 3: Full HP is Not Required. It's actually the next video I'm creating and it's going to go into healing potential, wasted healing/overheal and then some advanced healing tactics for end game. So back to your actual question.... If you zoom in on the tool tips, you are 100% right! Cure I costs less and has a 15% chance to give you a free Cure II, but when you zoom out for a 'bigger picture', you'd have to cast two Cure I's to equal the potential of a Cure II. Casting the two Cure I's will still be at a lower mp cost and have a higher healing potency in the end, but you've used two GCD's instead of 1 to achieve roughly the same effect, which is a GCD I could have used to do damage. Yes, Cure II costs more, but you should only be casting it when you'll get the maximum use out of it, so it shouldn't be draining your mp too much. 1 GCD doesn't sound like much, but can add up to a lot over time. If your spend time chasing the free Cure II or primarily relying on Cure I's (especially at max level), you'll end up with a lot of overheal and a lot of GCDs focused on healing that could have been used to help dps the boss/mob down. So in the end (Lvl 80), it kind of boils down to an optimization thing. On paper, it looks like a Cure I would be better, but in practice, the Cure II free's you up to be more versatile and get your tanks topped off more quickly and more safely. I hope this explanation helped! Let me know if you have any more questions!
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As a red mage constantly tempting fate and jumping out of arenas i can promise you that the point of „not every death is your fault“ is very accurate and very important Also if i had to add a point,it is okay to expect summoners and especially red mages to quick pick up your second healer in 8 man activities, now that doesn’t mean just leave them on the floor, but we usually realize when the single healer left is to busy keeping the tank(s) alive
I've been playing for about 4 years now, almost exclusively as a DPS because I was so anxious about healing or tanking. It's not an easy thing to get over, but it's so worth it! I love playing Scholar. The game offers so many different ways to practice and learn your job/role that can really help you to get comfortable with your spells and actions, like Command missions and Trusts.
As someone who is currently trying to get into playing Healers after mostly playing DPS classes this definitely helped to ease my healer anxiety Even though I already knew most of those things, it was nice to be told them again. A good friendly reminder and some reassurance 😊
Only watched the first 20 seconds, and the editing is above and beyond the dredges of FFXIV "content creators" And then I see the VTuber. It's certainly a surprise.
Another advice is to know which healer you're playing : D Each healer jobs are different from one another and I'm lucky enough to have my FC mates explaining the difference for me. For example, WHM is the best when it comes to panic healing and doing damage while SCH is a shielder, meaning they don't have a lot of panic healing spells but they give good shields. AST is a hybrid of both and has the cards, which looks intimidating but it's actually really fun!
Yep! Each healer definitely has its strengths and weaknesses! I'm excited to see how Sage is going to change things up! I wonder if it will be more of a DPS-heavy healer like WHM or more gimmick-heavy like AST.
@@EverydayEorzean I don't know why, but I feel like Sage is going to be DOT/ aoe heavy because of the weapon. I could be wrong, of course! But I'm excited to see it shake stuff up too :)
Personally I found that AST had way more panic buttons than WHM but then... I say that but I've only played WHM most of this expansion because it feels more responsive. Benediction and blood lily bursts are basically hard drugs that if fed to any other healer in game cause them to descend into a frenzy, go slightly mad and aoe nuke small suns onto your screen in between bouts of aggressive, blood curdling screaming as they slay everything within a few malms with explosive flowers. Be scared of your WHM is what I'm saying :D
This! I main scholar, so my default healer mindset is about preventing damage and debuffs with regular shielding and managing my aetherpool so I always have emergency heals while still building the fairy gauge and managing my MP. When I’m on white mage, my reaction time matters a lot more in keeping my party alive, even if I have bigger heals available, and those oGCD heal charges come on a steady time-based drip rather than requiring effort from me. Knowing how to emergency boost your healing is also class specific. White mage has skills that temporarily decrease cast time and negate mana cost, and medica 1 is better than 2 if your party already has the regen. Scholars can feel underpowered for healing checks, but have various boosts that can stack together to help you make it. tl;dr - all healers are good, but not all are the same. Know your skills and be aware of what kind of healing is the most challenging for your class specifically, so you can accommodate for it.
This is my first MMORPG, so far I've only been CNJ/WHM in dungeons and I really enjoy it! I still make a lot of mistakes but the players I've met have been nothing but kind not only to me but to other sprouts too, and most will give me advice for the situation I've just screwed up so I'll know for next time. Dungeons were initially so scary to me because I thought people would be mean about my lack of knowledge and experience, but it seems like a lot of players are very determined to make the game fun for everyone, even when we make mistakes. This is a really great community!
Welcome to MMOs and healing! You've picked a great time to pick it up! This community is amazing and I'm glad you've had such encouraging experiences. If you ever have a question, feel free to ask it in the comments! I have already seen so many awesome responses sharing their own stories, I'm sure there would be no shortage of people willing to help!
GREAT Video! Sprouts be proud! You are about to allow someone to give the gift of helping. Your questions are NOT a burden! It makes my/our day to be the team that gets you through a dungeon or raid the first time! Thank you for the privilege to help yoU!
exactly that - on a day where I am down because AGAIN no progress on latest savage raid tier or I met some toxic or just plain stupid ppl ingame or even just had a bad day at work - the best pick me up experience is helping someone get a first clear. Even better if said someone rly needs that help bcs still learning and not perfect pro gamer. I will even love me some wipes in aurum vale just to help that anxious little sprout tank through the first room (or show that sprout healer that yes, we can do the big pulls, dont you worry, a death or 2 is no problem, just an oopsie)
One thing I've learned while healing (currently lv 59 AST): if you and your tank are comfortable doing wall to wall pulls applying Regens to the Tank (and everyone else if those skills are available to you) helps a lot with MP management and will help you get into the swing of doing damage spells in higher level dungeons.
as someone who’s been a healer main for a while (after overcoming some MAJOR anxiety when I first switched over from blm), I greatly appreciate the tip about prioritizing yourself with heals first - I can count so many times where I used to sacrifice myself to raise someone while also standing in your friendly neighborhood aoe, lol. in the months since, I’ve learned so much about my class (whm), learned from my mistakes, and nowadays do eden raids to continue practicing and get better. to all the new healers out there, I wish you nothing but the best in your journey; remember that communication is KEY in any fight, and if you’re having trouble don’t hesitate to ask your party members or others who can help you improve 💫
I dove head first when learning the healing arts. I was in all Blue Mage raid party for achievements and a mount. I was the main healer. If you want to face anxiety directly at its face, Blue Mage healer is the best option lol. Every hit will feel like a tank buster and minimal tools for regen and no emergency healing tools.
@@Doublejho there are also a bunch of other spells to support in the healing. Regen is on cd, but the grp heals like stratum or the gobskin are excellent in the meantime.
Another tip for healers is that Asylum, Star, and Sacred Soil can be macro-ed to be dropped on your selected target. It saves you a gcd or two on time you'd be wasting choosing where to place it. Simply select the boss, the tank, or yourself and hit the button for easy placement
I kid you not, I never thought to macro that until recently when I read it in a comment on a different video, lol. Holy heck has it just been mind-blowing and one of those things I kick myself for not thinking of earlier. Thank you for spreading this knowledge!!!
A couple of more tips for any new healers: 1. Gear makes all the difference. It doesn't matter how good you are, bad gear means less effective heals which means more time spent healing, more mana spent, and higher chance of people dying. This is usually only an issue when starting a healing class for the first time, but it can discourage players. Although it can also be problematic when entering new content, specifically expansions. 2. While you shouldn't be worried about topping off your party, you may need to learn preemptive heals/shields. In all the chaos of battle, you'll notice healing will be easier when you prep your heals for incoming damage, especially aoes. This is a learning experience though, so your first times will always be harder than usual.
@@EverydayEorzean Thanks, although you covered the majority of what healers should know. Definitely wish I could have watched this when I started out lol.
If you have a Dark Knight as a tank, our soul is in your hands every time we pop Living Dead and we fear you. If there is a Gunbreaker we're likely a former Dark Knight seeking revenge for the fear we lived with as Dark Knights. And will thus Superbolide right after you cast Benediction. Be warned.
@@aquifer98 I'll hold it if I'm not familiar with a instance, but if I know the hight and where damage comes out, I get pretty loose with my Benediction, lol, but it's definitely not a playstyle for everyone!
@@EverydayEorzean oh I do that too haha. but Its also based on whos tanking etc xD. like my ig-wife will never bolide. she will let me heal her however I choose
I am maining scholar, and I always feel like I'm not doing enough. I learned to let my team take hits, but if things go down, when health starts to drop fast, I scramble and feel like I should have noticed and anticipated it. So far, it's pushing me forward, and I find the job very rewarding. My highlight was during the Ballad of Ultima Weapon, when half the party eventually got wiped and the other heal wasn't raising. I somehow managed to keep people up and regenerating while under fire and people noticed by the amount of commandation I had. I may not feel like a Main Character with my book in hand, but I always feel like the pillar of the party, and it feels great.
Pro tip: As a whm both regen and medica II will carry most of your healing in most of the msq (maybe an exception could be around Seat of sacrifice...Which is post lvl 80 content). You can add tetra, benetiction and lilies if things get a bit complicated
I was struggling in the 2.0-2.55 stuff on SCH until a moment where my mate was taking me through coils and grabbed someone from their fc to help, they took the time to give me the broad healer tips and it made me really want to go out and read up about the role, change up my hud etc and Heavensward was almost a joy to heal where before I dreaded every dungeon. Community really is incredible.
@@EverydayEorzean Yes, I only started the game a month ago and literally started Stormblood today so I'm kind of sad to leave Ishgard now I got attached.
Thank you so much! I've always been scared of healing in games, and this was a huge help to get me confident in beginning Astrologian when I unlock it.
Great video 👍 I'm very new to this game and, possibly mistakenly, decided that "Gladiator" sounded great as a starting character. Oh boy! Now going through the phase of watching everything TH-cam has to offer before doing a new dungeon so that I let the team down as little as possible. It didn't take long to find out that healers are awesome. On my first run of the Tam Tam Deepcroft dungeon the healer was one step ahead of me for almost the entire dungeon, courteously showing me the path from encounter to encounter. When she stopped I knew it was tanking time. That level of consideration and the kind words at the end from everyone there really hit home in a very positive way. A big thanks to all healers out there! Subscribed.
Thank you so much for the tips! I chose healer as my first class not knowing how much pressure it was going to give me. I went into Brayflox's Longstop thinking I would do alright but my party ended up dying around three times because I wasn't able to keep up with all the healing and paying attention to what was happening. They all just gave up and left, it made me feel so bad, so I searched on how to be a better white mage. T^T I was gonna just choose a different class to focus on but I didn't wanna give up so easily.
Oh no ; ; I feel like people that choose to play healer, typically care about others and want to help and support them, so I know (for me) it can be easy to get caught up in those moments where we struggle, -BUT- thankfully it's that desire to help people that pushes us to get better! I'm glad to see you didn't give it up!!! Are you fully leveled now?
@@EverydayEorzean I'm not fully leveled now, I'm only level 38. Yeah, after that fail I went to previous dungeons and did some more practice on healing and paying attention to my surroundings. v.v I was trying so hard not to take it to heart when my party just gave up on me.
Just started my WHM (now at level 52). First time being a healer in this game and coming from a 3-year hiatus. This is extremely helpful! Thank you so much!
It definitely has the most interesting gimmick among the healers. It''s also the most quickly paced among the three, it will definitely keep you busy, but you're already going in with a great attitude about taking on the challenge! I'm excited to hear about your journey!
I love astro,Just a tip when drawing a card. Look at the borders instead of what card you drew, blue goes to tanks or physical dps and purple goes to healer or long range dps.
Kind of a WHM specific addendum to the "always be casting" point... one of my favorite sequences to use during pulls is: DoT everything you can as you're running/pulling (since you can cast your DoT while moving), when you stop throw down Asylum where the tank has stopped, put Regen on the tank, cast Medica II, weave Assize (this healing combo should fix any health problems that might have started to occur by now), then IMMEDIATELY spam the crap out of Holy. As a WHM... HOLY IS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF YOUR HEALING TOOLS DUE TO THE STUN, and I don't think enough people realize this. If you're stunning all the trash in your AoE range until their stun immunity kicks in, that's probably 10+ seconds of nothing touching your tank at all because it's stunlocked. By the time their stun immunity kicks in, if things haven't started dying, recast Regen/Medica II and keep Holy-ing for the DPS factor, as you can. Another less serious tip, though one that has been taught to me through years of experience healing in multiple MMO's... as a healer, you can heal a lot of things, but you can't heal stupid (on the part of others). Never forget that and you should be fine ;-p
I agree with all of that!!! Holy is easily top tier ability in the WHM kit, the other thing that makes it amazing (for me anyways) is no target required. Perfect for chaining it once the pull stops without worrying if your target is going to die and interrupt you.
@@EverydayEorzean Word ^_^ I *arguably* prefer playing AST, but if it's content that I can't sleepwalk my way through, I will almost always choose WHM instead if I'm healing, for the Holy stun. The other healers feel like they're missing a critical part of their kit without something like that attached to their AoE attacks.
@@alibutterfly82 hmm. I understand the feeling of missing, regarding that one skill, but I think they just have different play styles. WHM is kind of selfish in regards to DPS and has longer cast times... But I still pick it as my main XD. I'm weakest with SCH
@@EverydayEorzean I'm working on levelling SCH now (it's my last healer to level) and I'd generally say the same; that's my weakest. I don't feel like they have nearly as much straight healing power - either single target or AoE - as WHM or AST. Shields are great, but if I want that, I'm more comfortable with Noct AST (until they gut it for Sage in Endwalker lol). Sometimes I feel like I must be doing something wrong on SCH though because I've certainly been on runs over the years where a SCH seems to have no problem keeping the group healed up while simultaneously doing respectable damage, so... I don't know. Maybe I'll feel better about it at max level, I'm mid-60's right now.
@@alibutterfly82 I think it will definitely feel more comfortable at max level. I want to do a video on how to handle various pulls and situations from each healer perspective in the future!
#6 is such a great but often overlooked thing. My old guild in WoW made sure our healers could identify the Tank CDs, so they could plan their own for when they dropped.
Oh that's awesome that they were so proactive about that. It took me longer than I care to admit to figure that one out, lol. Now I terrify my DRK by letting living dead get to 2 before I benediction.
I would like to add that when going through trash pulls, it is OKAY and ENCOURAGED to stay close to your tank. There are a couple reasons for this. 1. Your regen abilities may accidentally pull mobs off your tank if they miss one or two with an aoe. If you stay next to them, their aoes will always pick them up. 2. Limits instances where you can lose line of sight. 3. ALL healers have aoe abilities centered around themselves. Aside from AST which has a ranged aoe damage, WHM and SCH have melee range aoe attacks to encourage healers to stay WITH your tank. It is literally baked into the class to do so. While AST has a ranged aoe, they have some other abilities centered around them as well. The unfortunate thing I see a lot is that new healers think they need to stay back from the tank, and even see some people suggest them to always stay away. In 99% of cases, as long as you are dodging telegraphed aoes, you will -not- take damage just by standing in the group of mobs.
When I first started healing it was basically: "OH GOD, EVERYONE'S GONNA DIE. WHAT ARE MY BUTTONS. WHAT DO I DO. PANICK" Now that I picked up healing again it's now: "If they die, they die. I'll give you a band-aid and you'll be fine." Or I just play How Low Can You Go :^) This was really done! Thankfully, as a self-proclaimed Tank Main swapping over to Healer made it easier to know when big hits were coming so I could react preemptively, it's a good time now and I no longer panic...unless someone yells at me to heal them then I just flatline.
LOL, oh man... The "How Low Can You Go Game", pooooor tanks. We should start a comment thread of the lowest hp you've let your tank get to .... Whether it be by accident or design lol. Regarding tank switching to healer, yes!!! You totally had an advantage! Plus I'm sure it gave you a greater appreciation and understanding for what the tank does. Oh man I totally left off don't run away from the tank with hate lol.
If anything, I have more appreciation for Healers honestly. They deal with SOOO much crap that I can't even be mad at them when shit hits the fan; I naturally try to do my best to help healers not struggle by properly mitigating and all that fun junk. I went from having Tanking and Healing Anxiety too just stress testing my limits xD And I also understand the pain of a White Mage not having Bene up for a Gun breaker Superbolide :') or y'know...having a Gunbreaker Super my Bene :')
@@EverydayEorzean ok, then I will start. I let my (FC-) Tank drop to 17 on a Trash Pull in the Heroes Gauntlet. We were joking on discord and I was just in my Auto-Holy Mode, blasting one after the other. He then stopped mid-sentenced and began to screech. Luckily I now my buddy, so I could rescue him with Indulgence -> Tetra -> Benison -> Regen. Shadowplay on his side provided the evidence, cause I was a little bit shittalking him, taunting him as a scarecat. But nope, it was legitimate 17 HP left
@@EverydayEorzean Sad part is, that it really wasn't intentional. (Triple Digits, yes, I got that, but even sub 50, nah. There my Benni is too trigger happy). I would be really interested in legitimate planned HP-Limbo records.
The only thing I'd add, and it's sort of situational for casual content and lvling, is when you have Sprouts or players that might not be at a solid skill lvl yet, you should probably choose healing over damage. In Savage and high-end fights, sure it's a bit deal, but in normal content you can sacrifice some DPS for a kill rather than wiping and redoing the whole thing alongside all the drama that can bring. I jokingly say "Might wanna heal like it's World of Warcraft" when we wipe a couple of times, which almost always works if the other party members aren't outright trolling Really awesome guide, thank you for this, I totally link it to everybody that's lvling healer for the first time lol
One extra tip for new healers is use Esuna, especially in later content some debuffs damage over time effects are stronger than those in early game content. Yes you could ignore the DOTs in early game but because you neglected your use of Esuna you can forget it’s benefits in late game content.
I think an important tip also is that healing gets hard around level 50 because of an ilevel jump in gear. I wasn’t struggling with Scholar until that point and then it eased after my gear got better. It makes a big difference.
Oooooh yeah that jump between ARR and heavensward is rough. Did you do it recently it before the ARR crunch? I think now they give the gear a little more freely
@@EverydayEorzean Not sure about when that happened, but I started playing around 3 months ago. It was basically dungeon gear -> 130 ironworks -> 255 ishgard vendor, at least for me. I’m sure if I were an experienced player I could have found armour to fill the gaps.
I don’t know if anyone else had similar problems, but a piece of advice that took me a while to accept but is SUPER important is use everything in your kit! If your tank pulls all the enemies between two bosses or your DRK has entered walking dead, you’re not a bad healer if you “cave” and use benediction. It’s there for a reason! And another one, arguably more important: if you’re still learning how to heal on a class, it’s ok to ask the tank to do smaller pulls! A lot of people are afraid to say something, and I’ve been in that situation myself before, but trust me when I say most people don’t think twice about a new healer asking to take it slow.
Yes!!! The comments on this video are full of great advice!! I purposely hold off on healing in those big pulls to squeeze out extra holys and bene the tank back to full, to be fair though, I usually run my roulette with friends and they know my tactics by now XD.
Once, I had the opposite problem, as a tank (Gunbreaker, before I switch my main job to dancer) The heal want to do big pull but don't ask, he pull himself the packs or use rescue to force me into another pack or the boss and wasn't listening When I was telling him to stop because my Mitigations are on cooldown . The worst was when he pulled the last boss when a sprout was watching the cutscene because it was his first time here, so I didn't join in the fight and even sprint the opposite direction to avoid him to rescue me in the fight to let the sprout watch the cutscene, he died and rage quitted but it was deserved for being a jerk But now I'm leveling my Scholar, well I let the tank go as he want, I adjust to this, I have the chance to learn mechanics and how to play a job fairly quick, without reading a guide
@@vayalond7203 Omg that's horrendous. I NEED NAMES. (Kidding... only kind of) That's something I've heard about people doing that I strongly disagree with. It's not okay to try to force someone to play at a level they aren't familiar with or uncomfy with. Glad to see it didn't jade you too much though and that you instantly realized this guy was a JERK.
@@EverydayEorzean well to be honnest XIV is not my first MMO or mutiplayer game, before that, some years ago (I was like 13-15 now I'm 23 so I grew up a little bit xD) I played some free to play mmo who were'nt great like Grand Fantasia (my first mmo and multiplayer game) Aion a little bit and Eden Eternal and it was my last mmo before XIV like 5-6 month ago but I already tried XIV when the free trial was like for lvl 30 max, stormblood was fairly new at this time. But in short, all this to say I was not a total rookie, I already had few basis and overall I knew already how poeples can be jerk in mmo so I spot them very quick (I also played some time at LoL and CS so it helped me to spot them in no time xD) But yeah, in some month of XIV I can count on my fingers the number of poeple like this so it's not a big deal, just report and forget them it's the best way to deal with person like this, I don't know how it is in US but here, in EU I rarely saw someone complaining about that
I accidentally used RDM as a stepping-stone between BRD and SCH back when I first wanted to pick up a healer job. After I solo-healed Dun Scaith and Orbonne as RDM, I decided I could be anything I wanted lol To add onto the "Not all deaths are your fault" point: Not all deaths are your responsibility. There will be times where someone in your party just cannot grasp mechanics at all, and at a certain point raising them from their 4th one-shot death becomes a burden on you, and a burden on everyone around you. You can't heal your party if you run your MP dry raising that DRG for a 5th time in 2 minutes! Let them lay there and watch the mechanics, and once the fight's over talk them through what they were doing wrong so they can do better.
Re: healing dungeon dps Another good point to do damage in large trash pulls is that most healers are likely going to easily do top aoe damage. Skilled dps can keep up but it’s so easy to do massive aoe damage with healer aoe dps spells. Healers have some of the best aoe damage skills in the game if everything is ready the whm can nuke 1/4 of every single mob’s health in 2 gcds. (Whm’s holy also aoe stuns and this works as full 100% damage mitigation for about 4 gcds if nobody else built mob cc immunity.)
One thing that I'll add is that very few of your abilities are designed to be saved for emergencies. 30, 60, and even 120 second cooldowns are not as long as they seem on the tin.
Really want to thank you for this had a few friends who started getting into healing and they never understood why I find it fun... shared this with them in hopes that they get over there healer anxiety :)
Oh nice! It's great that they are starting the journey together! They'll be able to lean on each other and compare tactics, and they'll have you to go to as well! Thank you for sharing the video, too!
one thing healers should know is that you should probably use your big cooldown for the trash mob pulls, you don't have to save them for the bosses because the bosses typically don't have mechanics requiring benediction, so feel free to use all your cool downs for the mob pulls so you can get through the dungeons faster, plus it makes you look good in the party's eyes if you can heal through big pulls.
I had a few Conjurers in my Party who would not cast damage spells but instead would cast their basic healing spell (Cure I) unceasingly on the Tank. Granted it gets you through the dungeon too. :) Yes, you don't need to top of your Tank the whole time and if the Boss/Enemy has a Tank Buster (An Attack which inflicts very, very high DMG on the Tank), your Tank has also a responsibility to actually pay attention to it and use a Skill to mitigate the incoming DMG. It's not always the Healers fault if a Tank dies.
Oh man, I've run into my fair share of "Heal through it" tanks. You're right, it's important for both the tank and the healer to pull their weight and work together.
I started playing in 5.2 and I picked up AST after maining WHM through most of the AAR and Heavensward msq. I got the hang of the cards right away BUT THEN a veteran friend of mine told me it didn't matter which card I gave to which job and to look at the little symbols above the cards instead. I was like ??? I reread the skill descriptions every time I changed to AST to ensure I played the cards right... and I did! Had to muster some courage to tell my friend they were wrong and weren't up-to-date with the current iteration of Astrologian.
You got this! And if you ever have questions, just ask! If nothing else this comment section shows you just how helpful the community is and how they have all either been where you are or are going through the same journey and can help :).
Three years old and this video is fantastic and as relevant as ever. Healing is easily the most stressful job while sometimes being the easiest. If everyone knows what they're doing and you have a good group/run, you can essentially go through as a green dps, tossing out the occasional heal that never feels too urgent. If the group isn't as good then you immediately fall into the role of babysitter. There are those who will get impatient with deaths, even if caused by themselves, and whether their fault or not the healer is nearly always the first point of blame. It can be especially bad because they're half right. In some of these situations an expereinced healer CAN babysit the group and cover many of the mistakes, leading to a mentality that the healer should be able to heal through it so it doesn't really matter. This should not be the mentality. Just as you wouldn't want people making your job much harder you should be equally considerate. I also believe to become a better healer, you should try out and level at least one tank and the same to become a better tank. Spend some time healing. This way you should gain an understanding of eachother's jobs that will only make you better at your own. In both tanking and healing your worst enemy is always gonna be yourself. Don't be too hard on yourself, relax and allow mistakes to happen and to naturally learn from experience. Don't take negative experiences to heart. Bad attitudes are not your fault. On the counterside, don't be over confident. I've seen this particularly prevalent in tanks. Not knowing the instance too well, not being experienced enough on knowing when to mitigate, yet still pulling wall to wall while also not checking where the healer currently is. If you don't mitigate at the right time, outpace your healer, and get a legion of mobs gunning for you, you are going to lose health faster than your healer can restore it. It is then not their fault if you go down. Know your limits. Can I survive this pull? Not just putting it all on your healer. Same with healing. Don't impatiently pull ahead of the tank and grab mobs for them unless you know without a doubt you can deal with it. Also bear in mind your tank may not yet be confortable with bigger pulls. Be patient and switch to DPS instead for a bit.
A good healer knows when to heal and when not to heal. If you know the fight, you also know when damage comes in and when you need to heal/shield. There are a lot of fights where you can leave your party at low health for quite a time and then you can heal up in downtime for example, or as a WHM use the Lilies to heal, for when you have to move. Your only job is to heal unavoidable damage, Raidwide AoE, Tankbuster, Auto-Attacks from the boss. Never prepare for a fight as a healer for all the possible mistakes some people might do, prepare for the unavoidable damage. If people make mistakes and die, it is not your fault. Another rule I go by is: "I care about your health as much as you care about it yourself" When i put my Asylum or Sacred Soil, or my Star down and people choose to not stand in it, even though they easily can, I am not gonna single target heal them. You gotta be that selfish as a healer, especially in more challenging content like Extremes or Savage, because there your heals need more coordination and can't be easily wasted on someone who refuses to be a teamplayer. You are not a babysitter who should run after every party member, because they want to stand in Narnia.
@@EverydayEorzean I'm too baby to give you any advice! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just try to remember to rotate my mitigations and keep the boss turning away from the party lol thats all I got hehe I'm playing for like 3 weeks
@@EverydayEorzean oh! im a pally main! the best advice i can give you is to learn your mitigation cooldowns, and use sheltron as much as possible- it's incredibly convenient for mitigating between cooldowns because it doesn't have one, as well as adding an extra bit of mitigation to your regular rotation :0 and, when running a duty, always use your aoes! total eclipse and prominence are your best friends when it comes to trash mobs, and there's no real reason to be using your single-target skills until you knock the group down to just 1 mob left or when you reach one of the bosses. also, circle of scorn is a DOT aoe and it's probably my favorite skill that you get within the level 50 range paladin has a stupid amount of skills that are meant specifically for shielding party members from damage, and i'm still learning when to use all of them lol and one last thing: i've found that personally, watching a tank guide when i'm new to a duty helps *tremendously* with anxiety. if you know what's going on and what you're supposed to do, it really helps you to stay calm during the whole mess lol. also there's some dungeons where you have to pull a boss to a specific location and knowing that makes everything so much easier
@@parkerchernoff3262 awesome!!! Thank you for all the tips! I'm really excited to get into tanking more, I've been playing a healer since I can remember, and I feel like I have a good feel for how to tank, but it's always different once you're in the hot seat!!
Thank you so much for this helpful and adorable video! To all budding healers out there, know your own skills and your cooldowns. Yes you have those too. 😋 Instant cast, shorten cast time, MP regen, reduce MP spell cost, etc. I would also recommend, for higher level players two sets of hotbars and even gear. One for, ‘I’m soloing this extreme fight’, and one for party extreme and ultimate fights. Don’t get ahead of yourself. Take it slow. If possible practice with friends before facing the dreaded party and duty finders. And above all, stay safe. ❤️
First and foremost, thank you for the kind words! Oh wow. I'm curious about your two different hotbar setups now!!! What do you put on your second one for extreme/savages that you don't have on your first?
@@EverydayEorzean - To make things easier and faster for myself I use only 24 keys. Because CTRL+SHIFT+ALT gets on my nerves fast lol. Finally I’m not big on using macros for more speed. So I have all healing and buffs first and foremost for Ex fights etc. But if I’m doing solo or low level duties I’ll have my DPS skills (however few) on the forefront instead. Not sure this makes sense for you. Maybe I’m just weird lol To each their own way. 😋 So long as it works lol
WHM main here. I don't know who needs to hear this but one great thing about a game like FFXIV is that it doesn't matter if someone dies, so don't let that stress you out. I don't play many MMOs but the one I used to play, Ragnarok Online.. there was an EXP penalty on death and that was really frustrating. In high level content there, you basically lose hours of leveling just for losing EXP on death. Here in FFXIV, it doesn't matter if you're leveling on the field, in the dungeon, etc. Dying doesn't matter. Just res someone, heal them up, and continue on.
As a Meteor Survivor and veteran DRK, I enthusiastically endorse this message to all you cute little baby healers. Remember, your tanks love and appreciate you. Have fun and everything will be okay. Now, here's a *boop* for your snoot and a TBN to shield you.
Great video! I've been maining tank classes since I started playing again this year and I want to get started on learning healing as well. Thank you for the tips on how to play what I think is most difficult role in the game! Also, great editing and footage! You'll be on your way to 1000 subs in no time!
@@EverydayEorzean Yeah! I got super hyped when Endwalker got announced and started a new character along with my friends! I stopped playing right before Stormblood was announced and now I just started post-game patches for it and working my way to Shadowbringers. It's so good to be back!
@@blahblah920 that is awesome!! I'm so excited for you to experience Shadowbringers! When you are done, you have to tell me what you thought of it. What are you playing this time around?
@@EverydayEorzean For sure! I used to main dragoon way back when but I wanted a more involved role this time around so I started with Warrior, then I got into Dark Knight which is my highest leveled class rn. I got Paladin to 50 recently too so I’ve been tanking it since I started again haha! I’ve been slowly leveling arcanist so I can go scholar but I’ve been hearing it’s hard to play late game. Which class do you think would be best to learn healer role?
Sage main here that came over from full time tanking. It’s very intimidating, especially at first and more especially in unfamiliar content. Sometimes you’ve *got* to go with pure healing in those wall to wall pulls, especially when your tank is a DRK. In 8-man content I prioritize AoE mitigators and heals over single-target heals even though the single targets are stronger. Keep your heal-over-time ability and your all-party shield ability on cooldown, and if you’re a Sage keep in mind that Taurochole recycles fast and is a good party-wide mitigator that synergizes with a lot of tank buffs, and Eukrasian Dosis on the boss keeps Kardia ticking while you’re occupied elsewhere. I usually put Kardia on the squishiest tank (DRK) but not always-I’ve been known to put it on melee DPS if the player is having trouble. The best experienced players will pop a Dorito over their head so you can follow them in mechanic-heavy instances. I healed the last Endwalker trial for the first time and after I mistimed mechanics and wiped the party twice (a single healer can’t keep the party up in that fight) one did and *bam* I stayed up for the whole fight.
Another more whm specific since it's been my specialty since launch, but I'm sure it applies to all healers as well, is as you get used to your cast times and off global abilities you become increasingly mobile. There is a sometimes a moment where you have just finished casting that you can begin to move and the cast will complete, allowing you to avoid enemy abilities or reposition of needed
These are awesome healing tips! Took me so long (like years) to muster up the courage to transition from DPS to healing but I'm sooooo happy I did because it has made me an all around stronger player. There were mechanics and debuffs that I was completely unaware of until I starting healing and I do love it.
@@EverydayEorzean Exactly! I prefer Astrologian for it's versatility with regens and shields (and it looks really cool in my opinion). But I really do love White Mage for all of the "Oh Sh*t" spells available on the fly lmao.
Wow your soothing voice really caught me off guard. You could really voice a high budget documentary haha. Anyways thank you for your tips. I began my journey as a healer a few weeks ago. I really wished to discover you sooner. Please keep it up!
Wow, thank you! Ooooooo, another Healer joins the ranks! Are you a brand new player, or switching it up from another class? I'm currently working on a video to help healers increase their DPS with some tips and tricks I've picked up along the way. Hopefully it helps!
@@EverydayEorzean I‘m DPS but I‘m in progress of learning WHM for fun because I never played a healer in any other MMOs. The healer anxiety was really terrible in the beginning but with time comes experience and I managed to get hold of myself. All the points in your video are true and after watching it I feel much more confident now. :)
I think the main skill that will distinguish the veterans from the rookies in healing FFXIV is the understanding that healing is the easiest job in the game... oh, sorry, did I say job? I meant jobs, plural. Doing all those jobs simultaneously is the hard part! Keeping the tank healed is easy, doing your DPS is easy, weaving in your flavor of healer's off-globals is pretty easy, and the fight mechanics normally aren't much harder for you than anyone else. But doing all of those at the same time without missing one? You can tell the veteran healer out of the bunch when they top off the tank, while doing a mechanic, and then rescue someone out of position successfully. Healing is all a juggling act, and that goes double for SCH, as they have two cast bars to lightly consider, theirs and their faerie's.
Every time I see tanks pull the entire dungeon and getting their ass kicked, I get a small heart attack. I can never trust them to keep themselves alive lol.
Lol, it's definitely a balance. I see that the most in new content. We are all so used to being over powered and then get thrown into a new dungeon or trial as minimum ilevel and we... Forget lol
@@EverydayEorzean It's not really about forgetting. The leveling dungeons are over tuned and therefore hurt more and start hurting less as we get over geared, even as we ilvl sync'd down. For tanks, the same rules apply. Reprisal, Arm's length, Cooldown, cooldown, cooldown. For healers, the same rules apply: help mitigate damage, heal and if possible, do damage.
As a veteran jaded healer: 1. Every death is never your fault 2. Always be selfish 3. The only (HP) Health Points that matters is the last one 4. (Almost) Never be casting (any heals that are not instant casts) 5. You don't have to know everything (HP go low, neuron activation) 6. Tanks adjust 7. ALWAYS make mistakes. That's how you learn to min max your heals ;)
You're welcome! I think it's an important thing for healers to know. They don't need to be top 10% or anything, but if they are comfy with it and have the time, help the team out!
@@EverydayEorzean I'm still just learning, but about my second dungeon the tank told me the healer was expected to do damage AND heal, and I remain grateful to whomever that was...
Thank you for this! I love playing healer class, but hated healing WOW dungeons. FFXIV somehow manages to make learning a new game, class, and dungeon mechanic simultaneously way less daunting. My money is on the fantastic community that doesn’t rag on you for not knowing something! I have had amazingly helpful and kind individuals in my groups!
@@EverydayEorzean probably though real end game still feels so far away! Just hit 50s and the amount of stuff to do is already overwhelming! I thought about astro, but that’s still locked away in MSQ for now. Is there a favored healer class?
I am a 10 yr veteran of wow and my spouse and i just started ff. As usual he's tanking, I'm heals. This was relieving insight into how easy going the community is. Thank you for that.
Absolutely! I have the same dynamic with my Bf. You're bound to run into a few bad apples as you play, but for the most part this community is super sweet.
Sometimes that a problem when it comes to oopsies and learning is yea you got some that are nice and will help but man the rude ones. I started as a dps cause I figure less stress of being kicked from a party. Like you said its a game people needs to chill and enjoy.
I have played a healer in EQ, WoW, Rift, Shaiya and now FFXIV & a few things i had to learn are: HEAL Yourself...if you die most likely the grp will wipe, on movement heavy mechanics everyone needs to move and not get hit so if they die its their fault not yours, use any mana/mp recovery abilities early and often, we dont have to be at full health so its ok not to have everyone fully topped off...you and your party just need to survive, as a healer you should be dps'ing as often as possible mana/mp and dmg thats coming in permitting plus if you do dmg then you get the afflatus skills (Blood For the Blood Lilly!! muahahaha!) Best advice i have is read what your skills do, watch videos or ask others who play your class/job for advice and tips, and above all relax and have fun...its a game and as such should be enjoyable :)
Here's one... examine your tank to see what you're up against for the run. The HP usually gives things away too. I usually tank but do the same for my healer and I generally do an initial small pull to see the capabilities of the party. Some get annoyed but nothing is more annoying than starting with a big pull only to wipe because your healer isn't geared to a sufficient level or the aoe spam drones on because DPS is too low.
Nooooo one is perfect. Our oopsies are just more evident than others, but I guarantee you tanks and dps mess up all the time. I'm glad the video could help!!!
Love this video, it's definitely a journey to get used to healing. Been healing in games for 12 years here, its soooooo satisfying when you heal through stuff you would think you cant.
I'd love to try healing but I play on ps console and find the targeting to be temperamental at best. I have no idea how to effectively target, I manage ok with dps but running through the list to get to a player to heal is a pain, would love to see guide xx
I play keyboard/mouse myself, but would love to take on this challenge! I have met some amazing controller healers! In the mean time, I'm going to pin this in the comments and see if we can't get any advice out of the community! The super helpful healers of FFXIV have been coming out in droves in the comments!
I'm far from an end game healer so I can only comment on what I do when I heal casually, but my advice is that there are some really good macros that allow you target the your target's target. This allows you to have your tank selected most of the time. Your healing will apply to the tank and your damage spells will hit whatever your tank is fighting. This combined with using the up and down on the d-pad means you can cycle to your dps as well. I'm sure high level healers will completely disagree with this tactic and there are some drawback, the main on being you can't see the monster's casting bar, but it works well enough for me.
If you have a usb mouse and keyboard you can plug them into the console and play the same way you would on pc as long as you can get some sort of little flat area set up/have your console by your desk.
not endgame or anything but i play on pc with controller and heal. i have most of my heals on r2 and dps on l2 aoe heals on dpad and single heals on buttons. i dunno i do pretty well and people generally dont die.
Using up and down on the d-pad to target allies and left and right (or X/A depending on which controller you use) to target enemies works pretty well for me. I also made a macro for an emergency raise that first casts Swiftcast and then attempts to raise every party member in order in case I really feel the pressure to bring someone up quick without thinking too much about it.
While my AST is almost lvl 70, I still am suffering from healing anxiety and I suffer from the same fate of "I need to keep everyone at full hp" but this video and another one really helped me!! The phrase I use is "Will you die on the next hit?" if the answer is Yes, I heal them or smack regen on them. If no, I keep dealing dmg or throwing cards until the answer becomes yes.
As an Omi healer ---this is such a beautifully explained, crafted, and edited guide/video. Heal-anxiety and Tank-xiety are harsh at first! But the more you play, the more you push, the more you learn? The better you'll ever be. It's about the journey, teaching us. So that in the end, we can be the better version of what we enjoy!
Thank you! I couldn't have phrased the journey of healer any better! I have all my healers leveled too! Deeeeefinitely lean more towards WHM though XD, and SCH is by far my weakest. What's your main?
@@EverydayEorzean I honeslty main them all! I started as a SCH ---but I do admit that WHM is by far the best healer. (They got many "oh snap! he's dying!" button) I do, also, enjoy AST from time to time, but only when it is require as a co-healer. I am soooo looking forward for Sage, and see how it's playstyle differ from he three! :D
@@kygaly Same!! I started as SCH but eventually went to WHM for raid reasons and never looked back. I am switching it up for raid and running Sage for Pandemonium and can't wait! Hopefully we'll learn more at the upcoming live letter
I came over from a bad experience in WoW. My friend and Tank has been super patient with me as we stream my journey. Thank you for this, I hit 60 in WHM and still learning. I am getting better about on DOTs during pulls. I am definitely taking this for Heavensward. (14 Missions Away)
That think about me freaking out thinking it's my fault is happening to me rn and I'm not even playing healer classes yet! I went all through aar and heavensward on dragoon and now I'm doing dark knight for the first time. I've been playing for like 5 days on it now and I'm lvl 53 and I keep thinking everyone dying is on me. No one confirms or denies tho
Generally as long as you have aggro on everything in a big pull and are rotating your cooldowns appropriately, any deaths are probably just the fault of your party members standing in avoidable damage, so don't worry too much! Remember that even arm's length is actually a great cooldown for big pulls as it puts slow on any enemy that hits you!
@@justafossil yeah I try to do that. I use arms length and that one move that starts with R that takes 10% damage from all enemies. I use 20% damage reduction by itself. 30% damage reduction by itself. And 20% magic damage reduction whenever cause I don't know when to use it :I
I main a DPS. Flat out truth. If you have to res me, that was 100000% on me, not you. I make mistakes too and am learning fights. I appreciate the heals and resurrections! I never think WHAT! how could they let me die!? I think Thank You for getting me back up!
Super helpful video! I just started healing for the first time after a lifetime of Tanking and it's very overwhelming so thanks for the tips! You earned a new sub
I met this healer when leveling WAR in qitana ravel. He's good for a first time healer. He always manage to kept me alive when i did mega-pull. Alas, he always forgot healing himself. So, we at least wipe once in every boss fight. *sigh* should just brought my pally.
This is more like a "hopefully you learned to not let healer die but getting aggro ASAP from they". Unless healer wasn't avoiding AOEs or something like that, its your fault as theirs. You should have pull a little less because if healer is not healing themselve is probably because they have no time to do it due to your more than necessarily big pulls.
@@juanc.duartea.7575 He mentioned they died during boss fights, not the pulls, so probably not an aggro issue. Healer probably just got unlucky in aoes.
I'm relatively new to FF14 and it's my first MMO. I was scared of healing from the start because I was so anxious about it. Now that I've finally gotten to Heavensward and unlocked astrologean, I decided to go back to white mage and practice at low levels to get used to it. Videos like this go a long way to help me not be so anxious!
You got this! WHM > AST is a good transition with them healing similarly! You'll have to let me know which one you prefer after you've tried them both!
I just started the game as Sage, friends put me in Full Gear, skipped through the story with the power of money and jumped right into the action. Good lord is it a rollercaster to play this way, but I do find it entertaining and I've got some good mentors. Really appreciate your casual and friendly content. P.S: I like to shoot lasers.
Hello! This question is for anyone who can help. T_T So i got back in to ffxiv on ps4 . Ive been playing for quite a while now so i got the hang of healing! ⚠️ except for resurrections. I tend to target allies going up and down on the D pad and right to left for enemies. But for some unknown reason when an ally dies i cant target them so i can’t use Resurrection. I tried changing my settings but its hard to figure out if it work cuz i would only be able to test it on a boss fight.⚠️ if anyone can help id really appreciate it!
Hey Giovasky! I don't play controller so I asked on my discord - one of the other healers asked if it was all the time that it didn't work or only some of the time, and suggested it may be a range issue? I may have a macro that you can try that may solve your problem from another player on another video, waiting to hear back from him! I'm going to pin this comment for now to see if any other controller healers may be able to help!
hey, PS4 healer here! assuming it happens some of the time, there are some instances where you can’t immediately revive someone once they die (for example, if they fall off a platform - their name will be greyed out for a few seconds, and won’t be targetable at all until they reappear on the field again). it can potentially also be a range issue, which can be fixed by just getting near them first before trying to target. I may be able to think up more solutions by knowing what your settings are, so if you don’t mind elaborating on them that’d be great! edit: as a sidenote, you can also totally practice reviving in the overworld by yoinking a friend along, have them switch to a super low level class (like a crafter/gatherer), and let them fight some monster. then when they die, try to see if your targeting + revive works! that’s how a friend of mine tested their raise macros using me as a guinea pig, haha
Here is the macro provided by (@DiscoRei), replace Raise with which ever raise type spell you have, ascend, resurrection ect. If it's not a wait time or distance thing, this should help out without you having to target the fallen member according to DiscoRei! /micon "Raise"
I have about 3000 hours in game so far. I started when ARR hit PS4 but stopped before HW because it was my first MMO and I rolled a PLD and got kicked from quite a few dungeons. Fast forward to Christmas 2019 I finally built a beast of a PC cause I wanted to get away from consoles. The first game I downloaded was FF XIV. I still had major Tankxiety so I rolled DPS. played through all the expansions and decided to level up other jobs. I REALLY wanted to start a tank class but was terrified! I watched a WTG video where they talked about tankxiety and how to get over it. Their advice was to sack up and get over yourself! I rolled a PLD and maxed it grinding dungeons, and you know what? It was no where near as bad as my anxiety was making me believe. I figured after that I'd roll a WHM. Same thing! It was anxiety inducing but as soon as I started getting my kit all my anxiety went away! I'm a Holy spamming death machine now!
I usually try to explain it to them first and then if they ignore the advice and the mechanic with a "healer adjust" attitude... I let them learn, lol. I call them 'mp sponges' because they try to suck up all my mp through unnecessary cures.
@@EverydayEorzean They also take away time you can use to actually do dmg or heal Party members who really need healing like the tank, which could actually turn into a wipe just because of this.
@@neiabaraja2044 yep. I don't think it's malicious or anything, but it happens and then I have to rethink my strategy for the fight because my cool downs are a mess XD
@@craidiefin yeeeeeees. I always have a little bit of an internal struggle with that, especially with 24-mans. I'll find myself raising the same players 3-5 times per fight, but I just remind myself that they are probably learning mechanics and they can't learn them from the floor. (Even if it makes me cry a little on the inside with each raise lol)
@@EverydayEorzean at lvl 60 right when I could pick dancer. Got it to 63 with MAQ roulettes and really thinking about finishing Stormblood with it. I will prolly die because of not knowing the dungeons but wellps you gotta learn somehow? 😅
@@fluffymuffin7235 You already have the right attitude towards it! Remember just to let them know you're new to the dungeon. OOOH! Dancer! We're about to head to the home of the Dancers in Endwalker!
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New to MMOs. Started 14 3 weeks ago. First a bard. Easy enough. Wanted to try healing. Easy enough. Got to that infamous dungeon, I think level 48. Couldn't cast esuna fast enough. We wipe several times. I panicked. I told them I'm sorry and maybe healing isn't for me. I quit that dungeon. I didn't want to hold them up any longer. Long story short, I kept at. Just started HW, my main the the WM. But the pressure that the whole dungeon was a failure because of me still lingers. But perhaps that's why I like being the healer. Like commented and subscribed 👍
@@davidsabillon5182 I'm glad you kept at it!!!!
Rookie Healer: "But how can I be okay with my party members getting killed?"
Veteran Healer: "True...... but have you consider that, maybe, they were just too stupid to live?"
XD
And then random red mage goes brrrr and spams out 15 verraises in 1 minute somehow
Veteran Red mage: Eh.. i think thieir I.Q's where... negative 5.. they tried to lick the walls..
wow refugee: kick that useless healer already
15 +Year MMO Veteran: Healer will heal thee not when thou standeth in yon fire with haste.
WHM pre lvl 74: Oh gee, these guys are taking too much damage, I’m using cure. II so much I’m running out of mana!
WHM lvl 74+: YES! THE BLOOD LILY HUNGERS FOR YOUR VITALITY! BLEED FOR ME!
Yeeeeeeeees the green DPS!
@@EverydayEorzean hitting a dir crit Misery pumps more serotonin than any other interaction in the game. Edit: I think mean dopamine?
@@tomasciola7485 you're not wrong... I remember hitting my first triple digit cast. Oooooh memories.
Wait until you see WHM after discovering deep essence of the profane in Bozja :D
@@tomasciola7485 clearly you haven't experienced reassemble drill my friend
I was terrified of healing for the longest time (admittedly it's still not my favourite role). But once you learn to relax you panic less and just shrug off the accidents. It's remarkable how quickly one goes from "omg gotta keep everyone at 100%" to "eh, rub some dirt on it and slap on a regen, you'll be fine."
Bless to all you healers out there, you do good work.
LOL! Yep! Throw a Regen on it, you'll be fiiiiiiiiiine. Or my personal favorite "But did you die?"
@@EverydayEorzean If nobody died to anything unavoidable, I did my job as a healer. Or as I like to put it, "your safety is my concern. Your comfort is not." :P
Regen is the ultimate duck tape fix. Yeah it'll hold, just don't go slapping it
One of the biggest advice I give to struggling/panicking healers is: "Plant yourself and just cast. There is nothing more powerful than a casting healer." You'd be surprised at how much it changed the attitude of many sproutling casters and produced the biggest change in ability. Whereas they struggled prior to my advice, they didn't really struggle after this. I even watched one eat an aoe to the face and just soldier forth. It was glorious
At some point I started tracking damage numbers and thinking "100k - 95k in damage... You'll live with 5k HP. that's fine". it took a while for my static to realize I actually knew they wouldn't die and wasn't getting lucky lmao
The silly thing about healing is that the low level dungeons give you a wrong impression about what you need to do long term. You only get a straight heal and tanks don't have much mitigation/self-healing. Over time you acquire regen spells and tanks are way hardier and you have to adapt your playstyle.
Agreed!!! It's not just low levels either, my entire healing style changes depending on the expansion I'm playing in.
Good to know. I'm just starting out this past week as conjuror. Which seemed closest to Shaman in Wow, though eventually I'll be a white mage I guess. I've only healed 3 dungeons so far, or maybe it was 4. It's gone well enough, but I know it will get much harder, the first 4 dungeons are pretty easy.
To be honest i disagree.. your point overall isn't wrong but the modern ffxiv healing requires more uptime in ruin and stone than cure and succour, because the game lack of true balance people are synced the healer has the time to actually practise to switch between ATT and Support because of the lack of overall healing needed.
@@Vokcas01 I agree to an extent, I think we may have interpretted the comment differently. At lower levels there is definitely time to do damage and not a whole lot of damage going out. What I meant by my healing style changing by expansion is due to the lack of diversity in your healing options through ARR.
If you're starting as a new player, you only have conjuer as your healer option , and conjurer doesn't get regen until 35 - which is a handful of dungeons in. Not to mention you have absolutely no oGCD heals until 50. Compare that to how you heal at max level (primarily from regens and oGCDs) and you have a completely different healing style.
Players go the first expansion of the game where you area really learning and developing habits not being introduced to these methods.
To be fair, I'm looking at this from an optimization standpoint of saving as many GCDs for damage as possible, which definitely wont' be the case for most players.
So here is my opinion. You have to learn to adapt. The game cannot teach you how you should be playing, in end game dungeons, at the beginning of the game.
Firstly it will overwhelm players trying out tanking or healing for the first time. If you had all the end game abilities available and you tanked a dungeon with Ifrit (extreme) level mechanics at level 10-20, i guarantee you will roll dps and just forget about healing/tanking.
Early game is to get you into things, mid game reveals more complex mechanics, but provides abilities to deal with that and late game pushes your knowledge and abilities to the limits by working as a team. As a player in any dungeon you have to remember, you are not a one person team!
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Enjoy!
If the tank dies they can be ressed...if the healer dies....
Whenever i am teaching new healers how to heal i ask them "who is the most important person in teh party?" 9/10 they say the tank.
Wrong!
I tell them it's yourself!. You are the most important person in the party and exactly for the reason you describe! ❤
Then the WAR will heal 😂
I don't remember the exact quote, but I remember someone saying "DPS is just preemptive healing; the enemy can't hurt you if they're dead".
Lovely video, you have such a nice vibe about you!
Thank you lol, that sounds like something my Coheal would say XD. I love it.
It reminds me of JoCat video.
@@Dracobyte "DPS is just mitigating future damage"
Honestly, healing is a lot easier now. Once upon a time we had... cleric stance. *shudders*
Oh man.... a moment of silence for all that tanks that died to a healer stuck in Cleric Stance for heal checks. :(
I miss Cleric Stance so much, but I know it had to die to make the game more accesible to old and new players alike ;__;. Still, I think about it every time I Broil a thing.
@@penrilfake i miss stoneskin the most it made prepulls so nice.
Cleric stance? What was that?
@@brianmellema109 flipping stat values to dps
*me watching this even though Ive been healing in mmorpgs for 11years*
“hmmm interesting”
something I was told tho “a dead healer is useless” so yes! listen to her! STAY ALIVE!
XD Thank you!
Same idea as a greedy dos. You know how much dps you do when you're dead? 0. So dodge those aoes.
Your second point is a great one.
All of them are helpful, but that is something that can seem obvious, until you die to a predictable AoE because you were so focused on everyone else.
LOL! Yep! I can't tell you how many times I've died trying to squeeeeeze in that last cast to cure or raise someone... only to end up being the one that needs the raise.
i died to the levi knocking you out of the ring mechanic like 8 times straight cause i was too focussed on everyone else to remember to move to the edge of the ring...that was painful
Im a newbie on the game. and this is my first mmorpg. I chose a WHM, and this video really lift my spirits up. Since i sometimes think im a bad white mage. Thank you for all your tips :)
Welcome to MMOs and the FFXIV community! I'm glad the video could help. I definitely felt that way in the beginning too :/. Keep it up and keep at it, the important thing is having fun!
Healer is a role that require more consciousness and attention than any other role. So take your time get used to many things. It will feel overwhelming at first but you'd feel satisfied and rewarded when you get it. Dive into state of "in zone", dancing around harmlessly while keep those poor guys alive. That's feel so good.
On the other hand, Tank need a lot of charisma and confidence. While DPS need to squeezing every drop of their possible damage out of their class while stay out of harm. So every role has their hard point. And no one good at any of that from start. It's just because healer could feel our mistake more often than any other role. While DPS may didn't notice when they does low damage.
Something to note as healer is how valuable Esuna can be in dispelling harmful Debuffs.
It can be quite invaluable for your sanity in some encounters to just esuna that pesky "Sludge" Debuff which you don't have to focus on healing through the 30 seconds its on a Party Member if you can just dispell it and be done with it.
You can tell if a Debuff is dispellable or not by a blue line above the debuff icon. If there is one you can Esuna it, if there is none you cannot.
Hope it helps, if not you maybe someone else who reads this. :)
@@neiabaraja2044 this is a fantastic tip!!!!
Hope you enjoy the game! If you ever need people to play with there are always discords out there! You can even put your username and your World and Data Center out! Have fun!
I started this week and I went healer because: 1.- I *HATE* waiting in the party finder for hours. 2.- I love WHM's aesthetics (both spells and armor sets), plus, they're not uncapable of dishing dmg out (Great for when I have to play solo) and 3.- I'm excited for the Sage! Since I've always loved supporting with shield bars instead of heals whenever that's available in the games I play.
So of course it's nice to run into videos like this. Thanks for making it and I hope there's more videos coming!
Yaaaaaaay!! Another Healer!! I am super psyched for Sage too! I can't wait to try it out!
Why are you using a WHM instead of SCH or AST to support with shields? I know WHM looks cool for you, but you don't have to wait for Sage to use shield support.
@@juanc.duartea.7575 If they just started they wouldn't have access to those two yet. Conjurer is there only one available at the start of the game.
#2 is actually very valuable. I learned that lesson in The Vault on the final boss. Every time we got tethered I would try to break the tether, but at the same time try to heal whomever I was tethered to and I'd end up dying. Which of course meant we'd wipe. It wasn't until I said, "Screw it, I have to keep myself alive first," and prioritized healing myself that suddenly everything worked. It went against all my instincts as a healer, to heal thyself first, but it was what got me through that fight.
I know right?! lol We all get there eventually!
for the vault, i always distance myself from others as much as possible apart from aoe healing to avoid dealing with a tether. slidecasting also is a life saver for maintaining dps while running away.
I'd like to add one more point to this: know your class! Half the game's combat is knowing how to play your class, and having the confidence to play your class goes a long way to doing well in fights. That means knowing to cast Cure II over Cure I, popping Lucid Dreaming regularly for MP, and just knowing what your spells and abilities do in general. A lot of new healer grievances are actually neatly solved by your kit, so read your spell descriptions!
YES! Excellent comment! Knowing your class is critical, as some of our abilities are sneaky and have multiple uses/benefits or change over time as we level.
Cure 1 over cure 2 unless you get a free cure 2 ? Doesn’t shelling out cure 2 drain you way faster?
@@buxus3770 In general, you'll want more healing over mana efficiency, because healing your party in one cast instead of two leaves you more time to do damage, and your mana is getting constantly replenished by lucid dreaming anyway. Towards the late game, white mages don't even have to cast Cure 2 barring extraordinary circumstances.
@@buxus3770 This is kind of a nuanced thing as it's going to depend on what kind of content you're taking on and your play style. It falls under Lesson 3: Full HP is Not Required. It's actually the next video I'm creating and it's going to go into healing potential, wasted healing/overheal and then some advanced healing tactics for end game.
So back to your actual question....
If you zoom in on the tool tips, you are 100% right! Cure I costs less and has a 15% chance to give you a free Cure II, but when you zoom out for a 'bigger picture', you'd have to cast two Cure I's to equal the potential of a Cure II. Casting the two Cure I's will still be at a lower mp cost and have a higher healing potency in the end, but you've used two GCD's instead of 1 to achieve roughly the same effect, which is a GCD I could have used to do damage. Yes, Cure II costs more, but you should only be casting it when you'll get the maximum use out of it, so it shouldn't be draining your mp too much.
1 GCD doesn't sound like much, but can add up to a lot over time. If your spend time chasing the free Cure II or primarily relying on Cure I's (especially at max level), you'll end up with a lot of overheal and a lot of GCDs focused on healing that could have been used to help dps the boss/mob down.
So in the end (Lvl 80), it kind of boils down to an optimization thing. On paper, it looks like a Cure I would be better, but in practice, the Cure II free's you up to be more versatile and get your tanks topped off more quickly and more safely.
I hope this explanation helped! Let me know if you have any more questions!
@@FlickTakFlakAttack YES!
This was really nice! Soothing voice, great advice and the cartoon avatar it’s awesome! Did you make it yourself?
Awweee thank you! Nope, I had her commissioned by an artist. He did such a great job and was wonderful during the whole process. I adore her! He made her an adorable Starlight Outfit too for Christmas, I can't wait to switch it out once we get closer to Starlight!
@@EverydayEorzean How much did he charge? Might get one for my potato.
@@CuppaGi His prices have gone up since I got mine due to demand, but here is his link! He was great to work with, and didn't mind my several revisions. He also upgraded my character from Facerig to PRP/Vtuber Studios for free once they stopped supporting Facerig.
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As a red mage constantly tempting fate and jumping out of arenas i can promise you that the point of „not every death is your fault“ is very accurate and very important
Also if i had to add a point,it is okay to expect summoners and especially red mages to quick pick up your second healer in 8 man activities, now that doesn’t mean just leave them on the floor, but we usually realize when the single healer left is to busy keeping the tank(s) alive
Rez-mage to the rescue!
@@EverydayEorzean rescue or rez-cue 😏😏
I've been playing for about 4 years now, almost exclusively as a DPS because I was so anxious about healing or tanking. It's not an easy thing to get over, but it's so worth it! I love playing Scholar. The game offers so many different ways to practice and learn your job/role that can really help you to get comfortable with your spells and actions, like Command missions and Trusts.
Yes!!!!
As someone who is currently trying to get into playing Healers after mostly playing DPS classes this definitely helped to ease my healer anxiety
Even though I already knew most of those things, it was nice to be told them again. A good friendly reminder and some reassurance 😊
Absolutely! Oooh I'm curious! What was your first pick for healer?
Only watched the first 20 seconds, and the editing is above and beyond the dredges of FFXIV "content creators"
And then I see the VTuber. It's certainly a surprise.
XD it's that one-two combo!!!!
But in all seriousness, thank you. I put a lot of effort into this one!
Another advice is to know which healer you're playing : D Each healer jobs are different from one another and I'm lucky enough to have my FC mates explaining the difference for me. For example, WHM is the best when it comes to panic healing and doing damage while SCH is a shielder, meaning they don't have a lot of panic healing spells but they give good shields. AST is a hybrid of both and has the cards, which looks intimidating but it's actually really fun!
Yep! Each healer definitely has its strengths and weaknesses! I'm excited to see how Sage is going to change things up! I wonder if it will be more of a DPS-heavy healer like WHM or more gimmick-heavy like AST.
@@EverydayEorzean I don't know why, but I feel like Sage is going to be DOT/ aoe heavy because of the weapon. I could be wrong, of course! But I'm excited to see it shake stuff up too :)
Personally I found that AST had way more panic buttons than WHM but then... I say that but I've only played WHM most of this expansion because it feels more responsive. Benediction and blood lily bursts are basically hard drugs that if fed to any other healer in game cause them to descend into a frenzy, go slightly mad and aoe nuke small suns onto your screen in between bouts of aggressive, blood curdling screaming as they slay everything within a few malms with explosive flowers. Be scared of your WHM is what I'm saying :D
@@Zoey-- LOL. -you're not wrong-
This! I main scholar, so my default healer mindset is about preventing damage and debuffs with regular shielding and managing my aetherpool so I always have emergency heals while still building the fairy gauge and managing my MP. When I’m on white mage, my reaction time matters a lot more in keeping my party alive, even if I have bigger heals available, and those oGCD heal charges come on a steady time-based drip rather than requiring effort from me.
Knowing how to emergency boost your healing is also class specific. White mage has skills that temporarily decrease cast time and negate mana cost, and medica 1 is better than 2 if your party already has the regen. Scholars can feel underpowered for healing checks, but have various boosts that can stack together to help you make it.
tl;dr - all healers are good, but not all are the same. Know your skills and be aware of what kind of healing is the most challenging for your class specifically, so you can accommodate for it.
This is my first MMORPG, so far I've only been CNJ/WHM in dungeons and I really enjoy it! I still make a lot of mistakes but the players I've met have been nothing but kind not only to me but to other sprouts too, and most will give me advice for the situation I've just screwed up so I'll know for next time. Dungeons were initially so scary to me because I thought people would be mean about my lack of knowledge and experience, but it seems like a lot of players are very determined to make the game fun for everyone, even when we make mistakes. This is a really great community!
Welcome to MMOs and healing! You've picked a great time to pick it up! This community is amazing and I'm glad you've had such encouraging experiences. If you ever have a question, feel free to ask it in the comments! I have already seen so many awesome responses sharing their own stories, I'm sure there would be no shortage of people willing to help!
GREAT Video!
Sprouts be proud! You are about to allow someone to give the gift of helping.
Your questions are NOT a burden! It makes my/our day to be the team that gets you through a dungeon or raid the first time!
Thank you for the privilege to help yoU!
exactly that - on a day where I am down because AGAIN no progress on latest savage raid tier or I met some toxic or just plain stupid ppl ingame or even just had a bad day at work - the best pick me up experience is helping someone get a first clear. Even better if said someone rly needs that help bcs still learning and not perfect pro gamer. I will even love me some wipes in aurum vale just to help that anxious little sprout tank through the first room (or show that sprout healer that yes, we can do the big pulls, dont you worry, a death or 2 is no problem, just an oopsie)
One thing I've learned while healing (currently lv 59 AST): if you and your tank are comfortable doing wall to wall pulls applying Regens to the Tank (and everyone else if those skills are available to you) helps a lot with MP management and will help you get into the swing of doing damage spells in higher level dungeons.
Yep! Its getting over that trust hump right? Knowing everyone (including yours spells and abilities) is going to get the job done!
as someone who’s been a healer main for a while (after overcoming some MAJOR anxiety when I first switched over from blm), I greatly appreciate the tip about prioritizing yourself with heals first - I can count so many times where I used to sacrifice myself to raise someone while also standing in your friendly neighborhood aoe, lol.
in the months since, I’ve learned so much about my class (whm), learned from my mistakes, and nowadays do eden raids to continue practicing and get better. to all the new healers out there, I wish you nothing but the best in your journey; remember that communication is KEY in any fight, and if you’re having trouble don’t hesitate to ask your party members or others who can help you improve 💫
I love reading these personal accounts! I'm glad you stuck with it!
I dove head first when learning the healing arts. I was in all Blue Mage raid party for achievements and a mount. I was the main healer. If you want to face anxiety directly at its face, Blue Mage healer is the best option lol. Every hit will feel like a tank buster and minimal tools for regen and no emergency healing tools.
Lol I can't even imagine.... But now I want to try it. It sounds like it would be really challenging!!!! What was the first trial you healed?
does BLU healer not take white wind? for another BLU, that should serve as an expensive but complete heal, right?
@@Doublejho there are also a bunch of other spells to support in the healing. Regen is on cd, but the grp heals like stratum or the gobskin are excellent in the meantime.
@@aurumvale9908 oh i'm just saying in regards to how the OP said there weren't emergency healing tools, i know BLUs spells otherwise
Another tip for healers is that Asylum, Star, and Sacred Soil can be macro-ed to be dropped on your selected target.
It saves you a gcd or two on time you'd be wasting choosing where to place it. Simply select the boss, the tank, or yourself and hit the button for easy placement
I kid you not, I never thought to macro that until recently when I read it in a comment on a different video, lol. Holy heck has it just been mind-blowing and one of those things I kick myself for not thinking of earlier. Thank you for spreading this knowledge!!!
A couple of more tips for any new healers:
1. Gear makes all the difference. It doesn't matter how good you are, bad gear means less effective heals which means more time spent healing, more mana spent, and higher chance of people dying. This is usually only an issue when starting a healing class for the first time, but it can discourage players. Although it can also be problematic when entering new content, specifically expansions.
2. While you shouldn't be worried about topping off your party, you may need to learn preemptive heals/shields. In all the chaos of battle, you'll notice healing will be easier when you prep your heals for incoming damage, especially aoes. This is a learning experience though, so your first times will always be harder than usual.
Excellent additions
@@EverydayEorzean Thanks, although you covered the majority of what healers should know. Definitely wish I could have watched this when I started out lol.
@@darthdragon117 I look at it as paying it forward!
If you have a Dark Knight as a tank, our soul is in your hands every time we pop Living Dead and we fear you. If there is a Gunbreaker we're likely a former Dark Knight seeking revenge for the fear we lived with as Dark Knights. And will thus Superbolide right after you cast Benediction. Be warned.
LOL!!! this comment is so true. I had a SuperBolide incident in a dungeon last week.... even after this time. smh.
I hold benediction and hard cast cure 2 if I really truly have nothing left.
@@aquifer98 I'll hold it if I'm not familiar with a instance, but if I know the hight and where damage comes out, I get pretty loose with my Benediction, lol, but it's definitely not a playstyle for everyone!
@@EverydayEorzean oh I do that too haha. but Its also based on whos tanking etc xD. like my ig-wife will never bolide. she will let me heal her however I choose
@@aquifer98 Nice! It's always awesome to have a tank you can always count on
I am maining scholar, and I always feel like I'm not doing enough. I learned to let my team take hits, but if things go down, when health starts to drop fast, I scramble and feel like I should have noticed and anticipated it.
So far, it's pushing me forward, and I find the job very rewarding.
My highlight was during the Ballad of Ultima Weapon, when half the party eventually got wiped and the other heal wasn't raising. I somehow managed to keep people up and regenerating while under fire and people noticed by the amount of commandation I had.
I may not feel like a Main Character with my book in hand, but I always feel like the pillar of the party, and it feels great.
Nice! Yeah I run into that dynamic a lot where it feels like one healer takes on all healing duties and the other purely focuses dps >
Pro tip: As a whm both regen and medica II will carry most of your healing in most of the msq (maybe an exception could be around Seat of sacrifice...Which is post lvl 80 content).
You can add tetra, benetiction and lilies if things get a bit complicated
I was struggling in the 2.0-2.55 stuff on SCH until a moment where my mate was taking me through coils and grabbed someone from their fc to help, they took the time to give me the broad healer tips and it made me really want to go out and read up about the role, change up my hud etc and Heavensward was almost a joy to heal where before I dreaded every dungeon. Community really is incredible.
Are you still healing now? :D
@@EverydayEorzean Yes, I only started the game a month ago and literally started Stormblood today so I'm kind of sad to leave Ishgard now I got attached.
@@ViviCaligo but so much awesome story to come!!
Thank you so much! I've always been scared of healing in games, and this was a huge help to get me confident in beginning Astrologian when I unlock it.
No worries! I think we all have our fair share of healer anxiety lol. If you ever have questions along the way, you know where to come to!!!
Great video 👍
I'm very new to this game and, possibly mistakenly, decided that "Gladiator" sounded great as a starting character. Oh boy! Now going through the phase of watching everything TH-cam has to offer before doing a new dungeon so that I let the team down as little as possible.
It didn't take long to find out that healers are awesome. On my first run of the Tam Tam Deepcroft dungeon the healer was one step ahead of me for almost the entire dungeon, courteously showing me the path from encounter to encounter. When she stopped I knew it was tanking time. That level of consideration and the kind words at the end from everyone there really hit home in a very positive way.
A big thanks to all healers out there!
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That is such a sweet story! I love it!!!
Thank you so much for the tips! I chose healer as my first class not knowing how much pressure it was going to give me. I went into Brayflox's Longstop thinking I would do alright but my party ended up dying around three times because I wasn't able to keep up with all the healing and paying attention to what was happening. They all just gave up and left, it made me feel so bad, so I searched on how to be a better white mage. T^T I was gonna just choose a different class to focus on but I didn't wanna give up so easily.
Oh no ; ; I feel like people that choose to play healer, typically care about others and want to help and support them, so I know (for me) it can be easy to get caught up in those moments where we struggle, -BUT- thankfully it's that desire to help people that pushes us to get better! I'm glad to see you didn't give it up!!! Are you fully leveled now?
@@EverydayEorzean I'm not fully leveled now, I'm only level 38. Yeah, after that fail I went to previous dungeons and did some more practice on healing and paying attention to my surroundings. v.v I was trying so hard not to take it to heart when my party just gave up on me.
@@pingneoo I'm glad you haven't given up!!!! Everyone's journey is different and you can only get better!
Just started my WHM (now at level 52). First time being a healer in this game and coming from a 3-year hiatus. This is extremely helpful! Thank you so much!
Im planning to be an Astrologian after being satisfied with Black Mage. People say it's tricky, but I'm willing to take up the challenge.
It definitely has the most interesting gimmick among the healers. It''s also the most quickly paced among the three, it will definitely keep you busy, but you're already going in with a great attitude about taking on the challenge! I'm excited to hear about your journey!
PLease use Synastry!
I love astro,Just a tip when drawing a card. Look at the borders instead of what card you drew, blue goes to tanks or physical dps and purple goes to healer or long range dps.
@@DarkspineNero ..... How, how did I not realize this. LOL
@@EverydayEorzean It`s actually better to ignore the actual symbol and just go by border and seal because for some reason the arrow-card is for melee
Kind of a WHM specific addendum to the "always be casting" point... one of my favorite sequences to use during pulls is: DoT everything you can as you're running/pulling (since you can cast your DoT while moving), when you stop throw down Asylum where the tank has stopped, put Regen on the tank, cast Medica II, weave Assize (this healing combo should fix any health problems that might have started to occur by now), then IMMEDIATELY spam the crap out of Holy. As a WHM... HOLY IS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF YOUR HEALING TOOLS DUE TO THE STUN, and I don't think enough people realize this. If you're stunning all the trash in your AoE range until their stun immunity kicks in, that's probably 10+ seconds of nothing touching your tank at all because it's stunlocked. By the time their stun immunity kicks in, if things haven't started dying, recast Regen/Medica II and keep Holy-ing for the DPS factor, as you can.
Another less serious tip, though one that has been taught to me through years of experience healing in multiple MMO's... as a healer, you can heal a lot of things, but you can't heal stupid (on the part of others). Never forget that and you should be fine ;-p
I agree with all of that!!! Holy is easily top tier ability in the WHM kit, the other thing that makes it amazing (for me anyways) is no target required.
Perfect for chaining it once the pull stops without worrying if your target is going to die and interrupt you.
@@EverydayEorzean Word ^_^ I *arguably* prefer playing AST, but if it's content that I can't sleepwalk my way through, I will almost always choose WHM instead if I'm healing, for the Holy stun. The other healers feel like they're missing a critical part of their kit without something like that attached to their AoE attacks.
@@alibutterfly82 hmm. I understand the feeling of missing, regarding that one skill, but I think they just have different play styles. WHM is kind of selfish in regards to DPS and has longer cast times... But I still pick it as my main XD. I'm weakest with SCH
@@EverydayEorzean I'm working on levelling SCH now (it's my last healer to level) and I'd generally say the same; that's my weakest. I don't feel like they have nearly as much straight healing power - either single target or AoE - as WHM or AST. Shields are great, but if I want that, I'm more comfortable with Noct AST (until they gut it for Sage in Endwalker lol). Sometimes I feel like I must be doing something wrong on SCH though because I've certainly been on runs over the years where a SCH seems to have no problem keeping the group healed up while simultaneously doing respectable damage, so... I don't know. Maybe I'll feel better about it at max level, I'm mid-60's right now.
@@alibutterfly82 I think it will definitely feel more comfortable at max level. I want to do a video on how to handle various pulls and situations from each healer perspective in the future!
This should be required to watch in order for you to pick a healing class.
XD I'll see if I can get with Yoshi P on that! Thank you
Can we appreciate the graphics used in this video??? What a great job. Been a Healer for 75 levels and I still feel reassured with this vid!
Awwwee thank you!!!!!
#6 is such a great but often overlooked thing. My old guild in WoW made sure our healers could identify the Tank CDs, so they could plan their own for when they dropped.
Oh that's awesome that they were so proactive about that. It took me longer than I care to admit to figure that one out, lol. Now I terrify my DRK by letting living dead get to 2 before I benediction.
You gotta let the tanks sweat sometimes.
I would like to add that when going through trash pulls, it is OKAY and ENCOURAGED to stay close to your tank. There are a couple reasons for this.
1. Your regen abilities may accidentally pull mobs off your tank if they miss one or two with an aoe. If you stay next to them, their aoes will always pick them up.
2. Limits instances where you can lose line of sight.
3. ALL healers have aoe abilities centered around themselves. Aside from AST which has a ranged aoe damage, WHM and SCH have melee range aoe attacks to encourage healers to stay WITH your tank. It is literally baked into the class to do so. While AST has a ranged aoe, they have some other abilities centered around them as well.
The unfortunate thing I see a lot is that new healers think they need to stay back from the tank, and even see some people suggest them to always stay away. In 99% of cases, as long as you are dodging telegraphed aoes, you will -not- take damage just by standing in the group of mobs.
Good point, I'm usually popping Sprint to keep up with them!
When I first started healing it was basically: "OH GOD, EVERYONE'S GONNA DIE. WHAT ARE MY BUTTONS. WHAT DO I DO. PANICK"
Now that I picked up healing again it's now: "If they die, they die. I'll give you a band-aid and you'll be fine." Or I just play How Low Can You Go :^)
This was really done! Thankfully, as a self-proclaimed Tank Main swapping over to Healer made it easier to know when big hits were coming so I could react preemptively, it's a good time now and I no longer panic...unless someone yells at me to heal them then I just flatline.
LOL, oh man... The "How Low Can You Go Game", pooooor tanks. We should start a comment thread of the lowest hp you've let your tank get to .... Whether it be by accident or design lol.
Regarding tank switching to healer, yes!!! You totally had an advantage! Plus I'm sure it gave you a greater appreciation and understanding for what the tank does. Oh man I totally left off don't run away from the tank with hate lol.
If anything, I have more appreciation for Healers honestly. They deal with SOOO much crap that I can't even be mad at them when shit hits the fan; I naturally try to do my best to help healers not struggle by properly mitigating and all that fun junk. I went from having Tanking and Healing Anxiety too just stress testing my limits xD
And I also understand the pain of a White Mage not having Bene up for a Gun breaker Superbolide :') or y'know...having a Gunbreaker Super my Bene :')
@@EverydayEorzean ok, then I will start. I let my (FC-) Tank drop to 17 on a Trash Pull in the Heroes Gauntlet. We were joking on discord and I was just in my Auto-Holy Mode, blasting one after the other. He then stopped mid-sentenced and began to screech. Luckily I now my buddy, so I could rescue him with Indulgence -> Tetra -> Benison -> Regen. Shadowplay on his side provided the evidence, cause I was a little bit shittalking him, taunting him as a scarecat. But nope, it was legitimate 17 HP left
@@SenseiKoli OMG lol!!!! That clutch save though! I'm not sure I've ever gotten below triple digits. That's going to be tough to top lol
@@EverydayEorzean Sad part is, that it really wasn't intentional. (Triple Digits, yes, I got that, but even sub 50, nah. There my Benni is too trigger happy). I would be really interested in legitimate planned HP-Limbo records.
The only thing I'd add, and it's sort of situational for casual content and lvling, is when you have Sprouts or players that might not be at a solid skill lvl yet, you should probably choose healing over damage. In Savage and high-end fights, sure it's a bit deal, but in normal content you can sacrifice some DPS for a kill rather than wiping and redoing the whole thing alongside all the drama that can bring. I jokingly say "Might wanna heal like it's World of Warcraft" when we wipe a couple of times, which almost always works if the other party members aren't outright trolling
Really awesome guide, thank you for this, I totally link it to everybody that's lvling healer for the first time lol
Just started ffxiv as a healer one week ago. This vid was really helpful! :)
Welcome to healing!!
One extra tip for new healers is use Esuna, especially in later content some debuffs damage over time effects are stronger than those in early game content. Yes you could ignore the DOTs in early game but because you neglected your use of Esuna you can forget it’s benefits in late game content.
Mhmm! And only to Ensuna the ones with white bars!
Solid tips, healing shouldn't be stressful, it should be fun!
I think an important tip also is that healing gets hard around level 50 because of an ilevel jump in gear. I wasn’t struggling with Scholar until that point and then it eased after my gear got better. It makes a big difference.
Oooooh yeah that jump between ARR and heavensward is rough. Did you do it recently it before the ARR crunch? I think now they give the gear a little more freely
@@EverydayEorzean Not sure about when that happened, but I started playing around 3 months ago. It was basically dungeon gear -> 130 ironworks -> 255 ishgard vendor, at least for me. I’m sure if I were an experienced player I could have found armour to fill the gaps.
@@ShaylahGeikie I'll have to look into it, but you're right! It's a bit of a stumble for new people that don't know about that jump in ilvl
I don’t know if anyone else had similar problems, but a piece of advice that took me a while to accept but is SUPER important is use everything in your kit! If your tank pulls all the enemies between two bosses or your DRK has entered walking dead, you’re not a bad healer if you “cave” and use benediction. It’s there for a reason!
And another one, arguably more important: if you’re still learning how to heal on a class, it’s ok to ask the tank to do smaller pulls! A lot of people are afraid to say something, and I’ve been in that situation myself before, but trust me when I say most people don’t think twice about a new healer asking to take it slow.
Yes!!! The comments on this video are full of great advice!! I purposely hold off on healing in those big pulls to squeeze out extra holys and bene the tank back to full, to be fair though, I usually run my roulette with friends and they know my tactics by now XD.
Benediction is just another heal. I love to use it to sneak in a few extra glares/holies.
Once, I had the opposite problem, as a tank (Gunbreaker, before I switch my main job to dancer) The heal want to do big pull but don't ask, he pull himself the packs or use rescue to force me into another pack or the boss and wasn't listening When I was telling him to stop because my Mitigations are on cooldown . The worst was when he pulled the last boss when a sprout was watching the cutscene because it was his first time here, so I didn't join in the fight and even sprint the opposite direction to avoid him to rescue me in the fight to let the sprout watch the cutscene, he died and rage quitted but it was deserved for being a jerk
But now I'm leveling my Scholar, well I let the tank go as he want, I adjust to this, I have the chance to learn mechanics and how to play a job fairly quick, without reading a guide
@@vayalond7203 Omg that's horrendous. I NEED NAMES. (Kidding... only kind of) That's something I've heard about people doing that I strongly disagree with. It's not okay to try to force someone to play at a level they aren't familiar with or uncomfy with. Glad to see it didn't jade you too much though and that you instantly realized this guy was a JERK.
@@EverydayEorzean well to be honnest XIV is not my first MMO or mutiplayer game, before that, some years ago (I was like 13-15 now I'm 23 so I grew up a little bit xD) I played some free to play mmo who were'nt great like Grand Fantasia (my first mmo and multiplayer game) Aion a little bit and Eden Eternal and it was my last mmo before XIV like 5-6 month ago but I already tried XIV when the free trial was like for lvl 30 max, stormblood was fairly new at this time.
But in short, all this to say I was not a total rookie, I already had few basis and overall I knew already how poeples can be jerk in mmo so I spot them very quick (I also played some time at LoL and CS so it helped me to spot them in no time xD)
But yeah, in some month of XIV I can count on my fingers the number of poeple like this so it's not a big deal, just report and forget them it's the best way to deal with person like this, I don't know how it is in US but here, in EU I rarely saw someone complaining about that
I accidentally used RDM as a stepping-stone between BRD and SCH back when I first wanted to pick up a healer job. After I solo-healed Dun Scaith and Orbonne as RDM, I decided I could be anything I wanted lol
To add onto the "Not all deaths are your fault" point: Not all deaths are your responsibility. There will be times where someone in your party just cannot grasp mechanics at all, and at a certain point raising them from their 4th one-shot death becomes a burden on you, and a burden on everyone around you. You can't heal your party if you run your MP dry raising that DRG for a 5th time in 2 minutes! Let them lay there and watch the mechanics, and once the fight's over talk them through what they were doing wrong so they can do better.
Poor dragoons, lol. Always getting called out! Oh man solo healing a 24man on Rdm?! I hope you got all the Comms, all of them.
Re: healing dungeon dps
Another good point to do damage in large trash pulls is that most healers are likely going to easily do top aoe damage. Skilled dps can keep up but it’s so easy to do massive aoe damage with healer aoe dps spells. Healers have some of the best aoe damage skills in the game if everything is ready the whm can nuke 1/4 of every single mob’s health in 2 gcds. (Whm’s holy also aoe stuns and this works as full 100% damage mitigation for about 4 gcds if nobody else built mob cc immunity.)
One thing that I'll add is that very few of your abilities are designed to be saved for emergencies. 30, 60, and even 120 second cooldowns are not as long as they seem on the tin.
Yes! this took me soooo long to let go of. I was the worst at holding benediction... forever.
Really want to thank you for this had a few friends who started getting into healing and they never understood why I find it fun... shared this with them in hopes that they get over there healer anxiety :)
Oh nice! It's great that they are starting the journey together! They'll be able to lean on each other and compare tactics, and they'll have you to go to as well! Thank you for sharing the video, too!
one thing healers should know is that you should probably use your big cooldown for the trash mob pulls, you don't have to save them for the bosses because the bosses typically don't have mechanics requiring benediction, so feel free to use all your cool downs for the mob pulls so you can get through the dungeons faster, plus it makes you look good in the party's eyes if you can heal through big pulls.
YES! use those resources, it's what their there for! Awesome tip!
I had a few Conjurers in my Party who would not cast damage spells but instead would cast their basic healing spell (Cure I) unceasingly on the Tank.
Granted it gets you through the dungeon too. :)
Yes, you don't need to top of your Tank the whole time and if the Boss/Enemy has a Tank Buster (An Attack which inflicts very, very high DMG on the Tank), your Tank has also a responsibility to actually pay attention to it and use a Skill to mitigate the incoming DMG.
It's not always the Healers fault if a Tank dies.
Oh man, I've run into my fair share of "Heal through it" tanks. You're right, it's important for both the tank and the healer to pull their weight and work together.
I started playing in 5.2 and I picked up AST after maining WHM through most of the AAR and Heavensward msq. I got the hang of the cards right away BUT THEN a veteran friend of mine told me it didn't matter which card I gave to which job and to look at the little symbols above the cards instead. I was like ??? I reread the skill descriptions every time I changed to AST to ensure I played the cards right... and I did! Had to muster some courage to tell my friend they were wrong and weren't up-to-date with the current iteration of Astrologian.
That can be hard sometimes to have to tell a friend they're wrong or just agree to disagree. Good on you for knowing your class!
You know, this video kinda gave me hope to try to heal.
You got this! And if you ever have questions, just ask! If nothing else this comment section shows you just how helpful the community is and how they have all either been where you are or are going through the same journey and can help :).
Three years old and this video is fantastic and as relevant as ever.
Healing is easily the most stressful job while sometimes being the easiest. If everyone knows what they're doing and you have a good group/run, you can essentially go through as a green dps, tossing out the occasional heal that never feels too urgent.
If the group isn't as good then you immediately fall into the role of babysitter. There are those who will get impatient with deaths, even if caused by themselves, and whether their fault or not the healer is nearly always the first point of blame. It can be especially bad because they're half right. In some of these situations an expereinced healer CAN babysit the group and cover many of the mistakes, leading to a mentality that the healer should be able to heal through it so it doesn't really matter. This should not be the mentality. Just as you wouldn't want people making your job much harder you should be equally considerate.
I also believe to become a better healer, you should try out and level at least one tank and the same to become a better tank. Spend some time healing. This way you should gain an understanding of eachother's jobs that will only make you better at your own.
In both tanking and healing your worst enemy is always gonna be yourself. Don't be too hard on yourself, relax and allow mistakes to happen and to naturally learn from experience. Don't take negative experiences to heart. Bad attitudes are not your fault. On the counterside, don't be over confident. I've seen this particularly prevalent in tanks. Not knowing the instance too well, not being experienced enough on knowing when to mitigate, yet still pulling wall to wall while also not checking where the healer currently is. If you don't mitigate at the right time, outpace your healer, and get a legion of mobs gunning for you, you are going to lose health faster than your healer can restore it. It is then not their fault if you go down. Know your limits. Can I survive this pull? Not just putting it all on your healer.
Same with healing. Don't impatiently pull ahead of the tank and grab mobs for them unless you know without a doubt you can deal with it. Also bear in mind your tank may not yet be confortable with bigger pulls. Be patient and switch to DPS instead for a bit.
Your voice is like Cure, so soothing, haha, like I would imagine the voice of a Healer would like. Good video! Love playing as Healers in ffxiv.
Thank you! You've made my day!!! oooooh, healers! Do you have them all leveled?
@@EverydayEorzean yeap, though I don't really play Scholar :D
A good healer knows when to heal and when not to heal. If you know the fight, you also know when damage comes in and when you need to heal/shield.
There are a lot of fights where you can leave your party at low health for quite a time and then you can heal up in downtime for example, or as a WHM use the Lilies to heal, for when you have to move.
Your only job is to heal unavoidable damage, Raidwide AoE, Tankbuster, Auto-Attacks from the boss. Never prepare for a fight as a healer for all the possible mistakes some people might do, prepare for the unavoidable damage. If people make mistakes and die, it is not your fault.
Another rule I go by is: "I care about your health as much as you care about it yourself" When i put my Asylum or Sacred Soil, or my Star down and people choose to not stand in it, even though they easily can, I am not gonna single target heal them. You gotta be that selfish as a healer, especially in more challenging content like Extremes or Savage, because there your heals need more coordination and can't be easily wasted on someone who refuses to be a teamplayer. You are not a babysitter who should run after every party member, because they want to stand in Narnia.
That last Narnia bit LOL
I'm a sprout paladin tank and I want to try healing! This video really helped me get over my anxiety to try it!
Yaaaaay! I'm on the opposite journey right now! I'm dipping my feet into the world of tanking, on paladin. Any advice?
@@EverydayEorzean I'm too baby to give you any advice! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just try to remember to rotate my mitigations and keep the boss turning away from the party lol thats all I got hehe
I'm playing for like 3 weeks
@@EverydayEorzean oh! im a pally main! the best advice i can give you is to learn your mitigation cooldowns, and use sheltron as much as possible- it's incredibly convenient for mitigating between cooldowns because it doesn't have one, as well as adding an extra bit of mitigation to your regular rotation :0
and, when running a duty, always use your aoes! total eclipse and prominence are your best friends when it comes to trash mobs, and there's no real reason to be using your single-target skills until you knock the group down to just 1 mob left or when you reach one of the bosses. also, circle of scorn is a DOT aoe and it's probably my favorite skill that you get within the level 50 range
paladin has a stupid amount of skills that are meant specifically for shielding party members from damage, and i'm still learning when to use all of them lol
and one last thing: i've found that personally, watching a tank guide when i'm new to a duty helps *tremendously* with anxiety. if you know what's going on and what you're supposed to do, it really helps you to stay calm during the whole mess lol. also there's some dungeons where you have to pull a boss to a specific location and knowing that makes everything so much easier
@@parkerchernoff3262 awesome!!! Thank you for all the tips! I'm really excited to get into tanking more, I've been playing a healer since I can remember, and I feel like I have a good feel for how to tank, but it's always different once you're in the hot seat!!
Thank you so much for this helpful and adorable video! To all budding healers out there, know your own skills and your cooldowns. Yes you have those too. 😋 Instant cast, shorten cast time, MP regen, reduce MP spell cost, etc. I would also recommend, for higher level players two sets of hotbars and even gear. One for, ‘I’m soloing this extreme fight’, and one for party extreme and ultimate fights. Don’t get ahead of yourself. Take it slow. If possible practice with friends before facing the dreaded party and duty finders. And above all, stay safe. ❤️
First and foremost, thank you for the kind words!
Oh wow. I'm curious about your two different hotbar setups now!!!
What do you put on your second one for extreme/savages that you don't have on your first?
@@EverydayEorzean - To make things easier and faster for myself I use only 24 keys. Because CTRL+SHIFT+ALT gets on my nerves fast lol. Finally I’m not big on using macros for more speed. So I have all healing and buffs first and foremost for Ex fights etc. But if I’m doing solo or low level duties I’ll have my DPS skills (however few) on the forefront instead. Not sure this makes sense for you. Maybe I’m just weird lol To each their own way. 😋 So long as it works lol
I have just started healing after MTing content for almost 8 years and am hella awful. Thank you for sharing this encouragement!
Oh nice!!! What was you tank of choice?
@@EverydayEorzean Gunbreaker ATM. After years of putting heals through super butt clench I have decided to give back!
@@jgcapers3860 may you heal many gunbreakers XD
WHM main here. I don't know who needs to hear this but one great thing about a game like FFXIV is that it doesn't matter if someone dies, so don't let that stress you out. I don't play many MMOs but the one I used to play, Ragnarok Online.. there was an EXP penalty on death and that was really frustrating. In high level content there, you basically lose hours of leveling just for losing EXP on death. Here in FFXIV, it doesn't matter if you're leveling on the field, in the dungeon, etc. Dying doesn't matter. Just res someone, heal them up, and continue on.
Yes! I came form FFXI and it had a similar penalty! I remembered the first time I de-leveled I was crushed!
Step 4: DPS is just future midigation
Absolutely!
Especially WHM’s Holy
As a Meteor Survivor and veteran DRK, I enthusiastically endorse this message to all you cute little baby healers. Remember, your tanks love and appreciate you. Have fun and everything will be okay. Now, here's a *boop* for your snoot and a TBN to shield you.
XD omg I loved this way too much
Great video! I've been maining tank classes since I started playing again this year and I want to get started on learning healing as well. Thank you for the tips on how to play what I think is most difficult role in the game! Also, great editing and footage! You'll be on your way to 1000 subs in no time!
Thank you! Welcome back to the game, btw!!! You're coming back just in time to catch up and be ready for Endwalker!
@@EverydayEorzean Yeah! I got super hyped when Endwalker got announced and started a new character along with my friends! I stopped playing right before Stormblood was announced and now I just started post-game patches for it and working my way to Shadowbringers. It's so good to be back!
@@blahblah920 that is awesome!! I'm so excited for you to experience Shadowbringers! When you are done, you have to tell me what you thought of it. What are you playing this time around?
@@EverydayEorzean For sure! I used to main dragoon way back when but I wanted a more involved role this time around so I started with Warrior, then I got into Dark Knight which is my highest leveled class rn. I got Paladin to 50 recently too so I’ve been tanking it since I started again haha! I’ve been slowly leveling arcanist so I can go scholar but I’ve been hearing it’s hard to play late game. Which class do you think would be best to learn healer role?
Sage main here that came over from full time tanking. It’s very intimidating, especially at first and more especially in unfamiliar content.
Sometimes you’ve *got* to go with pure healing in those wall to wall pulls, especially when your tank is a DRK. In 8-man content I prioritize AoE mitigators and heals over single-target heals even though the single targets are stronger. Keep your heal-over-time ability and your all-party shield ability on cooldown, and if you’re a Sage keep in mind that Taurochole recycles fast and is a good party-wide mitigator that synergizes with a lot of tank buffs, and Eukrasian Dosis on the boss keeps Kardia ticking while you’re occupied elsewhere. I usually put Kardia on the squishiest tank (DRK) but not always-I’ve been known to put it on melee DPS if the player is having trouble.
The best experienced players will pop a Dorito over their head so you can follow them in mechanic-heavy instances. I healed the last Endwalker trial for the first time and after I mistimed mechanics and wiped the party twice (a single healer can’t keep the party up in that fight) one did and *bam* I stayed up for the whole fight.
Another more whm specific since it's been my specialty since launch, but I'm sure it applies to all healers as well, is as you get used to your cast times and off global abilities you become increasingly mobile. There is a sometimes a moment where you have just finished casting that you can begin to move and the cast will complete, allowing you to avoid enemy abilities or reposition of needed
Absolutely! Slide casting is an awesome trick to learn!
These are awesome healing tips! Took me so long (like years) to muster up the courage to transition from DPS to healing but I'm sooooo happy I did because it has made me an all around stronger player. There were mechanics and debuffs that I was completely unaware of until I starting healing and I do love it.
It really does give you a 'whole perspective' when you are standing back and watching everything happen. What healer do you main?
@@EverydayEorzean Exactly! I prefer Astrologian for it's versatility with regens and shields (and it looks really cool in my opinion). But I really do love White Mage for all of the "Oh Sh*t" spells available on the fly lmao.
Wow your soothing voice really caught me off guard. You could really voice a high budget documentary haha. Anyways thank you for your tips. I began my journey as a healer a few weeks ago. I really wished to discover you sooner. Please keep it up!
Wow, thank you! Ooooooo, another Healer joins the ranks! Are you a brand new player, or switching it up from another class? I'm currently working on a video to help healers increase their DPS with some tips and tricks I've picked up along the way. Hopefully it helps!
@@EverydayEorzean I‘m DPS but I‘m in progress of learning WHM for fun because I never played a healer in any other MMOs. The healer anxiety was really terrible in the beginning but with time comes experience and I managed to get hold of myself. All the points in your video are true and after watching it I feel much more confident now. :)
I think the main skill that will distinguish the veterans from the rookies in healing FFXIV is the understanding that healing is the easiest job in the game... oh, sorry, did I say job? I meant jobs, plural. Doing all those jobs simultaneously is the hard part! Keeping the tank healed is easy, doing your DPS is easy, weaving in your flavor of healer's off-globals is pretty easy, and the fight mechanics normally aren't much harder for you than anyone else. But doing all of those at the same time without missing one?
You can tell the veteran healer out of the bunch when they top off the tank, while doing a mechanic, and then rescue someone out of position successfully. Healing is all a juggling act, and that goes double for SCH, as they have two cast bars to lightly consider, theirs and their faerie's.
Absolutely.
Every time I see tanks pull the entire dungeon and getting their ass kicked, I get a small heart attack. I can never trust them to keep themselves alive lol.
Lol, it's definitely a balance. I see that the most in new content. We are all so used to being over powered and then get thrown into a new dungeon or trial as minimum ilevel and we... Forget lol
@@EverydayEorzean It's not really about forgetting. The leveling dungeons are over tuned and therefore hurt more and start hurting less as we get over geared, even as we ilvl sync'd down. For tanks, the same rules apply. Reprisal, Arm's length, Cooldown, cooldown, cooldown.
For healers, the same rules apply: help mitigate damage, heal and if possible, do damage.
@@Tevikolady yep!
As a veteran jaded healer:
1. Every death is never your fault
2. Always be selfish
3. The only (HP) Health Points that matters is the last one
4. (Almost) Never be casting (any heals that are not instant casts)
5. You don't have to know everything (HP go low, neuron activation)
6. Tanks adjust
7. ALWAYS make mistakes. That's how you learn to min max your heals ;)
XD, I sympathize with some of these.
Thank you for telling new healers that they need to DPS!
You're welcome! I think it's an important thing for healers to know. They don't need to be top 10% or anything, but if they are comfy with it and have the time, help the team out!
@@EverydayEorzean I'm still just learning, but about my second dungeon the tank told me the healer was expected to do damage AND heal, and I remain grateful to whomever that was...
Thank you for this! I love playing healer class, but hated healing WOW dungeons. FFXIV somehow manages to make learning a new game, class, and dungeon mechanic simultaneously way less daunting. My money is on the fantastic community that doesn’t rag on you for not knowing something! I have had amazingly helpful and kind individuals in my groups!
Welcome to FFXIV and the community! I'm glad you've had such a positive experience! Which healer did you end up picking up?
@@EverydayEorzean So far Scholar. But that was mostly to hedge my options and also have a DPS if I needed to run away screaming! 😂
@@VirtuallyViktoriyan LOL! Smart move. Are you going to try Sage when it comes out?
@@EverydayEorzean probably though real end game still feels so far away! Just hit 50s and the amount of stuff to do is already overwhelming! I thought about astro, but that’s still locked away in MSQ for now. Is there a favored healer class?
@@VirtuallyViktoriyan nope, all healers are viable! Just pick the one you enjoy most!
I am a 10 yr veteran of wow and my spouse and i just started ff. As usual he's tanking, I'm heals. This was relieving insight into how easy going the community is. Thank you for that.
Absolutely! I have the same dynamic with my Bf. You're bound to run into a few bad apples as you play, but for the most part this community is super sweet.
Sometimes that a problem when it comes to oopsies and learning is yea you got some that are nice and will help but man the rude ones. I started as a dps cause I figure less stress of being kicked from a party. Like you said its a game people needs to chill and enjoy.
I have played a healer in EQ, WoW, Rift, Shaiya and now FFXIV & a few things i had to learn are: HEAL Yourself...if you die most likely the grp will wipe, on movement heavy mechanics everyone needs to move and not get hit so if they die its their fault not yours, use any mana/mp recovery abilities early and often, we dont have to be at full health so its ok not to have everyone fully topped off...you and your party just need to survive, as a healer you should be dps'ing as often as possible mana/mp and dmg thats coming in permitting plus if you do dmg then you get the afflatus skills (Blood For the Blood Lilly!! muahahaha!) Best advice i have is read what your skills do, watch videos or ask others who play your class/job for advice and tips, and above all relax and have fun...its a game and as such should be enjoyable :)
New CNJ: "Omgomgomg he took 20 damage"
Veteran WHM: Have a regen, I'm busy.
LOL the powers of Regen.... if they get that!!!! Better be in range for some incidental Medica II!
@@EverydayEorzean
Incidental medica is the only medica.
No one will every heal you, except for that one really cool paladin who will also use cover for you if he can.
Awweee and I appreciate every PLD that saved me or covered me and every DRK that TBN'd me
@@EverydayEorzean i have the, "leave my healer alone" mentality. I just with cover had a bigger range maybe with drop off of its effectiveness
Here's one... examine your tank to see what you're up against for the run. The HP usually gives things away too. I usually tank but do the same for my healer and I generally do an initial small pull to see the capabilities of the party. Some get annoyed but nothing is more annoying than starting with a big pull only to wipe because your healer isn't geared to a sufficient level or the aoe spam drones on because DPS is too low.
This video really blew up eh? Happy for you! Glad the channel is growing :)
Right?! This totally took me by surprise. Thank you, Enclave
I needed this. I've started to not have fun due to the pressure of having to be perfect. ToT
Nooooo one is perfect. Our oopsies are just more evident than others, but I guarantee you tanks and dps mess up all the time. I'm glad the video could help!!!
Love this video, it's definitely a journey to get used to healing. Been healing in games for 12 years here, its soooooo satisfying when you heal through stuff you would think you cant.
Those moments are so badass
I'd love to try healing but I play on ps console and find the targeting to be temperamental at best. I have no idea how to effectively target, I manage ok with dps but running through the list to get to a player to heal is a pain, would love to see guide xx
I play keyboard/mouse myself, but would love to take on this challenge! I have met some amazing controller healers! In the mean time, I'm going to pin this in the comments and see if we can't get any advice out of the community! The super helpful healers of FFXIV have been coming out in droves in the comments!
I'm far from an end game healer so I can only comment on what I do when I heal casually, but my advice is that there are some really good macros that allow you target the your target's target. This allows you to have your tank selected most of the time. Your healing will apply to the tank and your damage spells will hit whatever your tank is fighting. This combined with using the up and down on the d-pad means you can cycle to your dps as well.
I'm sure high level healers will completely disagree with this tactic and there are some drawback, the main on being you can't see the monster's casting bar, but it works well enough for me.
If you have a usb mouse and keyboard you can plug them into the console and play the same way you would on pc as long as you can get some sort of little flat area set up/have your console by your desk.
not endgame or anything but i play on pc with controller and heal. i have most of my heals on r2 and dps on l2 aoe heals on dpad and single heals on buttons. i dunno i do pretty well and people generally dont die.
Using up and down on the d-pad to target allies and left and right (or X/A depending on which controller you use) to target enemies works pretty well for me. I also made a macro for an emergency raise that first casts Swiftcast and then attempts to raise every party member in order in case I really feel the pressure to bring someone up quick without thinking too much about it.
While my AST is almost lvl 70, I still am suffering from healing anxiety and I suffer from the same fate of "I need to keep everyone at full hp" but this video and another one really helped me!! The phrase I use is "Will you die on the next hit?" if the answer is Yes, I heal them or smack regen on them. If no, I keep dealing dmg or throwing cards until the answer becomes yes.
Oooooooh!!! That's a great!!!!
As an Omi healer ---this is such a beautifully explained, crafted, and edited guide/video. Heal-anxiety and Tank-xiety are harsh at first! But the more you play, the more you push, the more you learn? The better you'll ever be.
It's about the journey, teaching us. So that in the end, we can be the better version of what we enjoy!
Thank you! I couldn't have phrased the journey of healer any better! I have all my healers leveled too! Deeeeefinitely lean more towards WHM though XD, and SCH is by far my weakest. What's your main?
@@EverydayEorzean I honeslty main them all! I started as a SCH ---but I do admit that WHM is by far the best healer. (They got many "oh snap! he's dying!" button) I do, also, enjoy AST from time to time, but only when it is require as a co-healer.
I am soooo looking forward for Sage, and see how it's playstyle differ from he three! :D
@@kygaly Same!! I started as SCH but eventually went to WHM for raid reasons and never looked back. I am switching it up for raid and running Sage for Pandemonium and can't wait! Hopefully we'll learn more at the upcoming live letter
I came over from a bad experience in WoW. My friend and Tank has been super patient with me as we stream my journey. Thank you for this, I hit 60 in WHM and still learning. I am getting better about on DOTs during pulls. I am definitely taking this for Heavensward. (14 Missions Away)
That think about me freaking out thinking it's my fault is happening to me rn and I'm not even playing healer classes yet!
I went all through aar and heavensward on dragoon and now I'm doing dark knight for the first time. I've been playing for like 5 days on it now and I'm lvl 53 and I keep thinking everyone dying is on me. No one confirms or denies tho
Tanks definitely have their fair share of anxiety too!! Don't let it stress you too much! People will let you know!
Generally as long as you have aggro on everything in a big pull and are rotating your cooldowns appropriately, any deaths are probably just the fault of your party members standing in avoidable damage, so don't worry too much! Remember that even arm's length is actually a great cooldown for big pulls as it puts slow on any enemy that hits you!
@@justafossil yeah I try to do that. I use arms length and that one move that starts with R that takes 10% damage from all enemies. I use 20% damage reduction by itself. 30% damage reduction by itself. And 20% magic damage reduction whenever cause I don't know when to use it :I
I main a DPS. Flat out truth. If you have to res me, that was 100000% on me, not you. I make mistakes too and am learning fights. I appreciate the heals and resurrections! I never think WHAT! how could they let me die!? I think Thank You for getting me back up!
XD We appreciate you
I went to Lvl 50 as a healer and hey, seems like it's time to up my Plays :3
Thanks ^-^
Woooh! Which healer are you playing?
Super helpful video! I just started healing for the first time after a lifetime of Tanking and it's very overwhelming so thanks for the tips! You earned a new sub
Welcome! I'll be sure to keep them coming then!
I met this healer when leveling WAR in qitana ravel. He's good for a first time healer. He always manage to kept me alive when i did mega-pull. Alas, he always forgot healing himself. So, we at least wipe once in every boss fight. *sigh* should just brought my pally.
Oh no lol, hopefully they learned from it eventually
This is more like a "hopefully you learned to not let healer die but getting aggro ASAP from they". Unless healer wasn't avoiding AOEs or something like that, its your fault as theirs. You should have pull a little less because if healer is not healing themselve is probably because they have no time to do it due to your more than necessarily big pulls.
@@juanc.duartea.7575 He mentioned they died during boss fights, not the pulls, so probably not an aggro issue. Healer probably just got unlucky in aoes.
I'm relatively new to FF14 and it's my first MMO. I was scared of healing from the start because I was so anxious about it. Now that I've finally gotten to Heavensward and unlocked astrologean, I decided to go back to white mage and practice at low levels to get used to it. Videos like this go a long way to help me not be so anxious!
You got this! WHM > AST is a good transition with them healing similarly! You'll have to let me know which one you prefer after you've tried them both!
I like the cartoon avatar but the mouth movements are pretty fast and loose lol
LOL! I know, I'm working on it. Hold me accountable in future vids! I'm playing with the weights but the struggle is real XD.
@@EverydayEorzean xD
Did you draw/animate her yourself or is it a program like a dollmaker?
Oh I missed this! I had her commissioned!
I just started the game as Sage, friends put me in Full Gear, skipped through the story with the power of money and jumped right into the action.
Good lord is it a rollercaster to play this way, but I do find it entertaining and I've got some good mentors.
Really appreciate your casual and friendly content.
P.S: I like to shoot lasers.
Hello! This question is for anyone who can help. T_T
So i got back in to ffxiv on ps4 . Ive been playing for quite a while now so i got the hang of healing!
⚠️ except for resurrections. I tend to target allies going up and down on the D pad and right to left for enemies. But for some unknown reason when an ally dies i cant target them so i can’t use Resurrection. I tried changing my settings but its hard to figure out if it work cuz i would only be able to test it on a boss fight.⚠️
if anyone can help id really appreciate it!
Hey Giovasky! I don't play controller so I asked on my discord - one of the other healers asked if it was all the time that it didn't work or only some of the time, and suggested it may be a range issue?
I may have a macro that you can try that may solve your problem from another player on another video, waiting to hear back from him! I'm going to pin this comment for now to see if any other controller healers may be able to help!
hey, PS4 healer here! assuming it happens some of the time, there are some instances where you can’t immediately revive someone once they die (for example, if they fall off a platform - their name will be greyed out for a few seconds, and won’t be targetable at all until they reappear on the field again).
it can potentially also be a range issue, which can be fixed by just getting near them first before trying to target. I may be able to think up more solutions by knowing what your settings are, so if you don’t mind elaborating on them that’d be great!
edit: as a sidenote, you can also totally practice reviving in the overworld by yoinking a friend along, have them switch to a super low level class (like a crafter/gatherer), and let them fight some monster. then when they die, try to see if your targeting + revive works!
that’s how a friend of mine tested their raise macros using me as a guinea pig, haha
@@lunacharge I think also if they accept a revive by another healer they will be grayed out why they do their thing coming back to life.
@@unlimitedwind ah yes, that’s true as well! thanks for bringing it up.
Here is the macro provided by (@DiscoRei), replace Raise with which ever raise type spell you have, ascend, resurrection ect. If it's not a wait time or distance thing, this should help out without you having to target the fallen member according to DiscoRei!
/micon "Raise"
/macroerror off
/ac "Swiftcast"
/ac "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
I have about 3000 hours in game so far. I started when ARR hit PS4 but stopped before HW because it was my first MMO and I rolled a PLD and got kicked from quite a few dungeons. Fast forward to Christmas 2019 I finally built a beast of a PC cause I wanted to get away from consoles. The first game I downloaded was FF XIV. I still had major Tankxiety so I rolled DPS. played through all the expansions and decided to level up other jobs. I REALLY wanted to start a tank class but was terrified! I watched a WTG video where they talked about tankxiety and how to get over it. Their advice was to sack up and get over yourself! I rolled a PLD and maxed it grinding dungeons, and you know what? It was no where near as bad as my anxiety was making me believe. I figured after that I'd roll a WHM. Same thing! It was anxiety inducing but as soon as I started getting my kit all my anxiety went away! I'm a Holy spamming death machine now!
LOL! All the holys! Love the name XD
when you see dps constantly taking damage for not knowing the mechanics, let them die, so they can learn
I usually try to explain it to them first and then if they ignore the advice and the mechanic with a "healer adjust" attitude... I let them learn, lol. I call them 'mp sponges' because they try to suck up all my mp through unnecessary cures.
@@EverydayEorzean They also take away time you can use to actually do dmg or heal Party members who really need healing like the tank, which could actually turn into a wipe just because of this.
@@neiabaraja2044 yep. I don't think it's malicious or anything, but it happens and then I have to rethink my strategy for the fight because my cool downs are a mess XD
@@EverydayEorzean I call brink of death mp sponge. The amount of mana that goes into reviving is huge.
@@craidiefin yeeeeeees. I always have a little bit of an internal struggle with that, especially with 24-mans. I'll find myself raising the same players 3-5 times per fight, but I just remind myself that they are probably learning mechanics and they can't learn them from the floor. (Even if it makes me cry a little on the inside with each raise lol)
Thank you! 💞 I abandoned my white mage because of how anxious I got and as I was considering picking it up again I found your vid.
Yaaaaay! Welcome back to WHM! What level are you picking back up at?
@@EverydayEorzean at lvl 60 right when I could pick dancer. Got it to 63 with MAQ roulettes and really thinking about finishing Stormblood with it. I will prolly die because of not knowing the dungeons but wellps you gotta learn somehow? 😅
@@fluffymuffin7235 You already have the right attitude towards it! Remember just to let them know you're new to the dungeon. OOOH! Dancer! We're about to head to the home of the Dancers in Endwalker!