I wish I had a friend group like this, only ever really played with one other person, ff14 has largely been lonely for me

Good job. Makes me happy knowing people are finding friends out there. Even if I'm still just a solo sprout watching the world go by.

they say that to this day, the scholar still hasnt finished their book....

Amazing how much you guys managed to accomplish! I hope you keep going for many more!

Love watching the evolution of weapons, glams, and more intricate gposing :) my 2 year anniversary for the game is coming up in just a couple weeks, and me and my friends have plenty of pictures from our time playing, now im tempted to do something like this too lol

Song: "Neath Dark Waters"

Funny thing. I’m a tank main, wanted to get into doing other roles. Always struggled with healing (i’m a controller player and scrolling through targets takes more bandwidth than I can offer sometimes.) So I started playing BLM for DPS a few months ago. Did pretty decent with it. First healer I went for was SGE (this’ll be important in a moment). So the whole time I played BLM, lucid dreaming and manafont was kind of an afterthought button. Only pressed it when I remembered to press it. Might have cost me a fire cast, but it allowed me to sync ice phase with movement in most cases (because it put me in ice a little more often). Yes, inefficient, but more movement and lower-level content (i havent really gotten into EX and savage yet) So when I got into healing, suddenly that lucid dreaming button became a constant friend that pretty much stood on CD because…well, running out of mana just isn’t okay.

Outstanding vid <3 I wish I'd had this when I started out

If a healer is running into mp issues despite using mp recovery actions, they've either just revived 3 teammates, or they're using too many gcd heals while the party is healthy. If the whole party is at 90% hp and not expecting a heavy raidwide, I am not wasting time and mp on a Medica, Succor, etc. In my experience, the only times I've actually run out of mp (even after using an ether) were fairly hopeless scenarios where we might as well wipe and retry. If a tank in a dungeon is doing a big pull where I'll be spamming Cure 2, Adlo, etc., I'll still usually walk away with 4-6k mp at the end of battle, dipping only to 1-2k if the dps are slacking (but I'd sooner run out of mp than let the tank die).

A god send of a guide for me. Thank you so much!

love how you mention Cure 1 still being useful after getting Cure 2 in ARR content. Been playing WHM for 8 years and keep hearing Cure 1 is useless when having Cure 2, and free cure is a sprout trap. I admit after getting Solace at LV52 yes Cure 1 is pretty much useless compared _but_ before that level, Cure 1 can still thrive LV50 content and under. Was healing W2W pulls in LV28 dungeon, me and tank max LV but LV synced. ST heal using only Cure 2 was slow and very costly on MP 1k per heal. LV30 sync WHM at that level doesnt have any free heals. Cure 1 spam for those W2W pulls with Presence of Mind and Lucid Dreaming made a makeshift Regen saving my MP. Free Cure tho, later levels creates bad habits for WHM. I'll still see Cure 1 used for it LV60+ and beyond, when Regen, Solace, Asylum being far more useful. I hope 7.0 makes Cure 1 become Cure 2 with a 1.5 cast and reduce MP from 1k to 700MP or so.

Very nice explanation, but it requires to know what abilities come next, which is the difficult part. I cannot say how many times I have cast regen on a tank with full hp, only for them to die before I could cast the next cure 2, because the damage was so high during those 2 GCDs.

Thanks!

the girls are not ready for this convo

I'm a Sage Main here and... honestly? I prefer to just tell the bosses and mob pulls "No" with stacked shields, regens and light healing, popping a targeted triple threat on the tank when needed as the DPS should be doing this thing called "not standing in the orange fanta" or if you're on Lv50 Crystal Tower, not standing in the damn magma. Slapping down staggered shields that overlap is just... fun, especially when watching the yellow bar become as long as the health bar. And since I've got all these shields on everyone, I can concentrate more on slapping the boss with a DOT and as much laser spam as I can to feed that tank's health like a grandma feeds her family at thanksgiving. Oh and for the "not standing in the orange fanta" comment... I'm looking at you Black Mage Mains. I'm looking at your health drop and vuln stacks rise. And I'm still prioritizing the tank.

Woah, a content creator focused on synced mine and even blind fights? Insta subbed! So much stuff focuses on max level content that has limited utility to me when I'm not going to get there likely for years yet.

Remember Healers are there to keep you alive not at full HP also remember a Healer that feels neglected or abused will let you die

It feels odd to focus so much on GCD heals when the end goal is to not use them nearly ever except lilies which get refunded. I guess this comes from mostly a coils healing perspective. Also if people are too spread to be hit by medica II they really should be grouped together. No reason a healer can’t demand the party stack for heals.

WTF was that at 12:30 lol

im a scholar main whos done 4 savage tiers and 3 ultimates, and i think this video is fantastic. prioritizing heals is such a huge part of prog. its easily the most fun part of healing

Thanks I play healers but I still wanted to watch something about them so❤

for content above level 80 WHM. for normal content always try heals using lilies charges and ogcd only, medica2 are only for heavy party wide dmg, and regen is for when out of lily charges and/or as filler spell while moving evading mechanics, other GCD heals only to be used as an emergency where every oGCD and Lilies are on cooldown.. DPS death dmg penalty is worst than your healer lost GCD.. dont waste lilies on full hp allies just to obtained blood lily for extra DPS because u dont, this is due to Glare has much higher chance to proc critcal hit then blood lily, although in theory as in potency calculation 3 glares = 1 blood lily, forced blood lily may only be usefull when on party Burst Window, but u will lose your lily charges that can be used on your next heal and you ended up using GCD heal anyway if required. blood lilies are actually meant as GCD refund as it refunded back of your 3 used GCD lilies, if you counted Blood Lily as another GCD, u only used 1 GCD for 3 heals.. also bare in mind 2 normal hit glare + 1 crit glare are better then 1 normal hit blood lily.. even though 3 glares = 1 blood lily in term of potency.. blood lily are rarely critical hit.. the best time to cast lilies spells is when moving while evade mechanics to keep your ABC as much as possible.. if you can timed it right glare when standing still and lilies (heal/blood)while moving unless required an immediate heal..

Funny triage moment i had the other day on Zeromus as SCH. Both tanks and the WHM got eaten by the black hole. Managed to resolve it by swift ressing one tank. Then shield up a DPS to buy time for the Tank to revive and get back to full health. Mitigate raidwide with seraph while hard ressing the WHM.

Going to share this with a friend who got confused why I never use cure 1 anymore.

That soundbyte from the wow streamer at 12:30 was too real lmfao. Anyway, fantastic job covering the fundamental theory behind healing!