FFXIV: ABC - A Beginner's Guide to Healers

[@WeskAlber]

I've seen people saying "omg he forgets what it's like to be a newbie with bad gear." I had to deal with weaker heals, tanks with no tank stance, no passive defense trait, cleric stance, no Hall of the Novice Gear (hell, game starts you with more gear now than it did back in 2.5) and more. Guess what I did? Did DPS as a healer. I don't give advice I myself wouldn't use. As for the "bad gear" argument? A Cure 1 in Sastasha does about 200 HP of healing. Guess for how much it heals while naked, except for a weapon? 160 HP. The game literally hands you more gear than that and NO GEAR is only a 20% swing. There's no excuse for "a newbie doesn't have the toolkit to do any DPS." That's just gaslighting everyone who has done it since the beginning and assumes all newbies are undeserving of even ATTEMPTING to be more than a Cure 1 spammer. And it's almost as if I present the topic of Green DPS with nuance by saying "take it slow, some tanks need more healing than others" and etc.

[@Ash-vu1et]

I took up conjurer as my first job with 0 prior MMO experience, and I think for my first few dungeons I was even wearing crafter gear because I thought defense stats were all that mattered. Even then I did what I could to DPS between healing. I don't get why some people so adamantly insist that healers shouldn't DPS, not just because it doesn't make sense, but like... it's so boring? Even if you ARE using your full toolkit and DPSing it can be mind numbingly bland. I can see where people who tend to overheal are coming from, at least, because maybe they have more anxiety around healing and are afraid of letting people die, but people who insist on ONLY healing confuse me to no end. On that note, I would kill to see healer DPS become more interesting. I'm doubtful SE will ever implement anything more complex for healer DPS, but I can dream u-u

[@jameslacey5654]

@@Ash-vu1et Its super easy to pop off a heal aero, check tank health, stone, pop off a heal, stone. Even easier later when you get regen! Granted Im just lvl 50 and haven't started the tougher raids/dungeons yet but so far I have no problem keeping up DPS and Im brand new to the game!

[@Kisuzume]

I started playing a new character with my tank friend and I played SCH and they played WAR, from Sastasha to level 50 content we had nothing but leveling gear we got from dungeons (story skipped and just dungeon spammed from 15+) and she pulled wall to wall in every single dungeon. We never wiped. I ran out of MP sometimes and had to spam healing sometimes but even then I still had room to DPS. It's literally that easy. Default dungeon upgrades, having a tank who can roll their cooldowns properly, and a healer who isn't afraid to GCD heal when shit goes bad and everything is possible.

[@Souls400]

One thing with slide casting, if you have emotes somewhere on your bar they will be grey'd out when you are casting, but will light up when you are able to slide cast. Not the most practical, but pretty good at teaching you where your window is. GL with healing!

[@AkaAkoVT]

Huh, that is fascinating. I wonder why they react to that state?

[@moosecat00]

@@AkaAkoVT Because the cast bar is generally incorrect in FFXI and FFXIV. Emotes are grey'd out when they cannot be used, when they can be used they light up. Quite simple. Fun fact it was intentional design, as it is not present in DQX.

[@AGrumpyWitch]

That is a fantastic tip!

[@dragonhearthx8369]

That something I've never heard. Cool

[@jenikabartlett9396]

I have /comfort on my combat caster bars as it's the only emote with a(Minor, situational) combat effect(Some gremlins will apply a 'misery' debuff that is removable with /comfort)

[@mugen3603]

@37:00 Sprouts, you may have heard the advice to disable party spell affects so that you can better see certain mechanics. This is true, however, if you disable spell effects completely, you will not be able to see the bubbles that healers plop down. Better to just set this to "limited" for your party, and disable for alliance.

[@smalltownhik]

Thank you for dedicating an entire section to Cure 2 V Cure 1. It’s actually insane how often I have to correct people telling WHM to spam Cure 1 instead of just casting Cure 2 because C1 “uses less mana.”

[@Mandegavelian]

This sounds like a leftover of WoW playstyle, where being efficient with mana is more important than in FFXIV (at least in my limited experience with FF). I've been using Cure 1 too at the beginning, since it's been hard-wired into my brain to spend mana efficiently. It's really nice, that this guide corrects this particular mistake :P

[@HaibaneKuu]

@@Mandegavelian It's just a common mistake because game doesn't teach you that. In fact, game teaches you the opposite. I know people like to say "read tooltips", but reading tooltips does show that Cure I is more mana efficient. Moreso, you get a trait that allows a free cast of Cure II if you cast Cure I. So, people assume that intended mechanic is to heal with Cure I and get free big heal. It is especially emphasized if a healer meets a badly geared tank or one who doesn't use CDs and runs out of mana spamming Cure II on him - which makes them feel that conserving mana must be important.

[@GrimoireM]

@@HaibaneKuu To be fair, WHM doesn't have Solace or Thin Air until Heavensward, Medica II isn't available till level 50, and it and Cure III don't have great MP budgets either. ARR White Mage really lacks GCD efficient options and the mana recovery that AST and Scholar have at those levels, so on them it is actually correct to take actions that help preserve your mana pool for emergencies in ARR, even with Lucid being better than prior iterations. The key really is to learn to lean on Regen, as not only is it a more GCD efficient heal, it also introduces the concept of healing proactively in clean manner, as it aids massively in WHM's MP conservation. Medica is sometimes better, but only in the sense that casting one or two of them is better than casting regen on the entire party, which has DPS gains. It doesn't matter in current content, but the skill does have use, and only serves to highlight just how powerful oGCD cooldowns across the entire role really are later.

[@raleo7466]

For the 15h I've played of WHM (until lvl 45 rn) just use Cure II, it's better for your dps, unless tank makes a big pull and you become a healing bot who lives and dies by lucid dreaming. If you are happy to see a freecure, cease the DPS, blame the tank for not reducing their dmg and spam Cure I (and the godly freecure II) until being able to breathe xD

[@reloadpsi]

Yeah, I realised the more time I was desperately trying to proc freecure could've been spent just using the mana for cure 2 and some stone spam.

[@TheFrantic5]

"It's not the end of the world if the tank dies." Tell that to Edda. :(

[@kaffka4753]

This comment makes my head rolling

[@cynmila08]

SHE'S ON A WATCH LIST NOW! Lol

[@msking9553]

edda hasnt watch wesk's ABC of healing, she overcapping avere HP and depleted her mp

[@reloadpsi]

Tell that to the ones never use their defence buffs and think it's 100% the healer's job :P

[@femthingevelyn]

that's still not the end of the world because the tank died, it's the end of the world because the healer panicked

[@TheLunarLegend]

A healer's job isn't to heal you it's to keep you alive. Yes there's a difference!

[@randomanun4278]

I can repair or mitigate damage but I cannot out heal failed mechanics.

[@forgottenshard1377]

Couldn't have said it better myself

[@kenallsop7502]

Really looking forward to this mini-series. Your beginner advice is consistently among the most clearly laid-out and explanatory, which is great for friends of mine who are getting into the game for the first time. Even as a long-time player I really enjoy watching them and as I branch out into new classes and roles they're very useful to have. Healer is the one role I've never spent much time with so I'll be paying close attention to this one in particular. Keep up the great work!

[@reniecoffey]

When I began my journey I watched so many guides, so many videos (I knew without hesitation I was going to be a white mage) I was humble but also had this notion that I was totally prepared. No major mess ups... Until Dun Scaith, my first time, I was the only one left alive, boss was almost dead... And I forgot about LB3. I had never been in that situation before, and despite being well aware of LB3 and how clutch it is, in that moment I just forgot. You've said before on this channel that experience is vastly different from watching guides, and that is a prime example

[@pozziellen]

You’re a treasure for our community. Thank you for your hard work!

[@Haruka_May]

Holy crap, I played WHM to 80 and leveled the other two to 60 and never noticed the line above esuna-able debuffs. Would often try when there was one I didn't recognize.

[@romdog1818]

The game doesn't do the best job of teaching players very well. I don't think there is even a pop up for Esuna use, which would have been greatly appreciated in the early game.

[@sapphirelily510]

Learning other roles is some of the best advise in my opinion. I'm currently working on getting all my jobs to level 80 and that was probably the single best thing I have done to improve myself as a healer main. Really changes your perspective and you become so much more aware of everything playing out around you. This was a great video and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. 😊

[@dreadcircumference]

your guides are actually the best in this entire community. dont think im cut out for healing as its way too stressful but its nice to learn the ins and outs of the role.

[@zenspeed404]

I hate healing in all MMOs, but if I wanted to get my amaro, I had to learn how to heal. I'll probably keep it restricted to just dungeons and small trials, but it's not incredibly stressful unless the tank is an idiot or EVERYONE is an idiot.

[@dalgona4819]

I used to have that fear too until I started playing sage and astro and both are really fun

[@MagicalGirlContractor]

Your vids were what got me to take the plunge into FF14. It was brief but I loved the time I spent in there. Unfortunately my mother was diagnosed with cancer so I had to leave the game but I'm glad KZbin recommended me this video it reminds of some really good times :) Thanks for your awesome videos that were super friendly and comprehensive. Keep doing what you love and I hope you're making nice income from it all!

[@Ashtonyss]

Oh my God, please please do one of these for tanks. I see so many tanks even in late game content who don't even understand the fundamentals of how to play their role.

[@WeskAlber]

Tune in in 2 weeks

[@marks2807]

As a healer I have seen tanks pull everything, and save all their cooldowns for boss fights. When it is the mobs doing more damage to them then anything else.

[@drymeen]

@@marks2807 I had that happen in MT Gulg just earlier today... We were on 2d boss, PLD religiously popped cds on every boss ability, and proceeded to use hallowed ground on a random group wide damage while he was sitting on 80% hp, then proceeded to do the nasty and long quad pull right after, not using a single defensive outside of sheltron. Useless to say, I didn't get a lot of time to do damage there.

[@sashaalexander2824]

​@@marks2807 FR, popping cd was the hardest thing i had to learn as a tank as the normal content didn't have that much dangerous tankbusters, and had to find out the hard way.

[@ovrsees]

Thank you for such an in depth guide! I’m a DPS main, but trying to be more confident with WHM in group content. Appreciate the myth busting on a lot of things that keep going around!

[@HizzerPeews]

Me with all healers capped and doing savage content: I'mma watch dis.

[@elgatochurro]

Same bestie

[@babaspector]

Speaking of black mages: I've done dun scaith many times to farm the tomestones, and I remember a specific black mage who had the stack marker above their head. they were standing in laylines far from everyone, and instead of teleporting to the team, they let 22 people run to them to save a few points of personal DPS. one of the best gaming moments of my life.

[@user-vt6nw3nf8v]

This has helped me become a better healer and it’s my third time watching now and I can honestly say you go very in depth and help out a lot. Just started playing scholar 1st dungeon as healer I got all 3 accommodations. Needless to say it helped me alot listening to this.

[@mistrkill]

As a tank main that started about a month ago, watching this guide is really useful to start adapting how I play and learn my own role, I would for sure recommend everyone to learn about other roles. I'll watch the DPS guide next after this video. Thanks for the info

[@CurtainofHonor]

Oh my god I'm just starting to level healer on an alt, and I could not ask for better timing. Thanks for the guide!

[@Earlchaos]

It's a great guide, i probably would've appreciated it more if it was there when i started playing 16 months ago. I would even recommend re-watching it while you progress through the job as some stuff only makes sense much later past level 45 (holy for WHM comes with 45, similar spells for SCH and AST too) or even close to max level. Have fun and enjoy it, i love my WHM which became kinda my main (all jobs except 1 now on max)

[@Tyler-zx7xn]

"Adjust your corpse into being a good player." dude they're already dead XD

[@dntthe88]

Astrologian is my favorite healer, even when I have no time for damage spells I'm helping with dps passively

[@robsusername1042]

As a healer main, I love to see a healing guide for new players but there are some corrections that may be important for a new player guide. On “Not all healers have them (AOE regens)” @ 17:50 All healers actually do have them. All healers have at least two AOE regens. The healers I assume you’re referencing here (shield healers) both receive their AOE regens earlier than the pure healers. WHM actually gets its first AOE regen LAST of all the healers. SCH - Whispering Dawn lvl 20, Sacred Soil upgrade lvl 78 SGE - Physis lvl 20, Physis II lvl 60, Kerachole upgrade lvl 78 AST - Aspected Helios lvl 42, Collective Unconscious lvl 58, Celestial Opposition lvl 60 WHM - Medica II lvl 50, Asylum lvl 52 Conversely, all healers do not have an AOE shield. They all have single target shields but WHM lacks an AOE shield. On Swiftcast Not a correction, but I recommend that every healer try to Raise party members as soon as possible whether you have Swiftcast or not. On “No emergency button” When learning healing, Benediction is an emergency button. On Rescue Black Mages are one of the worst classes to rescue because you interrupt their cast and often cause them to drop their Enochian buff. Additionally, Black Mages have a movement ability that isn’t part of their rotation. You should prioritize your Rescues on party members that are essential first because they have aggro or a mechanic, on players that don’t have a movement ability next, on players whose movement abilities are part of their rotation third, and on players like Black Mages whose movement abilities are not part of their rotation (and are therefore always off cooldown) last.

[@cicisstormshelter1076]

This is great. I wanted to get all the healers to Level 80 so I could do the Healer Role and Void quest, but I dread queuing up as a healer because I worry that I can't heal everyone fast enough. This guide really helps me... I am going to go into Party Finder and spam Practice sessions for my Level 61 healers so I can get them to Level 71 for Bozja and hopefully learn more. I wanted to play Scholar during some of the quests but I couldn't get them past Level 61(63 for Astrologian as I got a lot of MSQ levels for it) because I was too scared I might end up failing to heal, I had some bad experiences where I couldn't reach the tank in time to save them and we wiped. This guide helped me understand why I need to Sprint all the time. And you should have shown Palace of the Dead Edda to show how horrible and tragic her tale is.

[@petrus9067]

Good luck in your healing adventures :)

[@alicelufenia3648]

I really appreciate your perspective on party survival, and how the tank going down isn't the end. That Matoya's Relict run save was really impressive.

[@WeskAlber]

You can even notice I just stop doing everything the moment the buster starts. It's like "yeah, I can save this, but I'm not going to risk them going down too." Staying calm is key, and a little bit of focus can go a long way.

[@seancatacombs]

Eventually wall-to-wall pulls are some of the most fun you can have as a healer in Normal content. It makes old content you've gone through before as DPS or Tank fresh again and pushes you to explore every skill you have on your hotbars.

[@nathanrichardson8263]

I love this guide so much, it's very informative. Healing has been such a fun thing in this game compared to other MMO games I've played. I still only like applying Regen once the pull has finished and we're burning down the trash mobs but to each their own 👍🏿

[@boastaboutgames2747]

Thank you for beating out the "I decide who lives and who dies" mentality that some people have. As a healer, if you screw up, or annoy me, or do bad crap. I'll still heal you. I don't care if it makes me a doormat. It just means I'm doing my job. And so should you.

[@thecomputernutball]

For white mage i did find early on that swiftcast is perfect for holy when tank is doing big AOE pulls. This will give you lots of time to DPS them all down sometimes before they even come out of the stun. ^^

[@defiantmars9910]

Your guides are easily the most digestible of any that I have found. I’m looking forward to your Endwalker content. Keep up the great work!

[@Subtended]

24:56 This buff is called "Transcendence" and lasts for 5 seconds or so OR UNTIL YOU USE AN ABILITY. As suggested, take a moment to assess the situation before pressing *anything* on any role. It feels terrible to sit up from a rez, hit Lucid or something, then die again to a raidwide.

[@PipPanoma]

Looking forward to the tanking guide! I still get tank anxiety despite theoretically knowing what to do :(

[@ikari570]

I used to have tanxiety too and ended up maining tank. My tip is to try and go into dungeons with a full party of friends where you know they're patient and won't judge you. It's ok to make mistakes, that's a learning experience! Wiping in a dungeon or dying in general really isn't that big of a deal. If people get mad over wiping in party finder that's on them, there really aren't any stakes. Additionally, in my experience, whenever you mention you're new to tanking people are understanding and nice. That's not a given of course, but I hope you get those good experiences! All in all, try to push yourself beyond the boundary and try, you'll see it isn't as bad as anxiety would have you believe. No one will rage or blame you, and if they do they're big doodoo heads who can suck fat nards, as a famous bard once put it. And, finally, try to work your way up. Start with guildhests, then go into the 4 man primal trials. Next are full dungeon runs, then Trials/Normal Raids and finally Alliance raids. You've got all the time of the world, no one expects you to main tank an Alliance Raid boss tomorrow. This got a little longer than I thought, I wish you all the best and hope you have fun on your journey! 💙

[@ExireHG]

I expected to have healer anxiety but instead I have the tank kind haha. It doesn't really have anything to do with how I play, it's nervous about what kind of a healer am I gonna have to adjust to xD. I feel most 'out of control' on tank since I don't have the DPS of a...well, DPS, and can't heal through a difficult situation either. I say that about DPS since 'dead stuff quicker' is the best mitigation ;)

[@ethanolson2559]

babe wake up new wesk feature film just dropped

[@callmeobsequious]

This comment made me laugh. Lol.

[@DizzyNeko]

Commenting for the algorithm cuz the video is as per usual a god sent. I just played healer for the first time

[@randodox8375]

I love your ABC guide, it really helps me get a grip on play each role early on in the game and make it a habit much early on that i can tackle mid game content with minimal problems.

[@lambs5258]

Brand new to this game. I usually tank, but recently started healer so I can learn their perspective and know how to make their job easier when I tank. It has... not been great, my performance is embarrassing, and my first instinct was the "top-off" method until someone told me it's not ideal. Healer is a difficult role and the most involved, IMO. There's so much variance in how to play. This guide is SOO helpful and EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you for explaining everything so fully!

[@TheRismint]

I'm on endgame as a DPS and I consider myself pretty good at that, so I decided to take up WHM so I can become a more well-rounded player. After getting absolutely curbstomped in Aurum Vale, I have come to this video to salve my wounds a little. Mark my words, I WILL be trying again (right after I emotionally recover from that lol)

[@paigebaker745]

I started leveling my first healer two days ago so this couldn’t have come at a better time for me! Keep up the great work!

[@hazbo878]

Amazinnnnng and informative guide as always Wesk! Will recommend this to others :) Thanks ya so much

[@Blacksheep-uy3qv]

Your guides have been amazing so far! As someone who was mainly tanking and now branhcing out its been nice to find the little quirks in other classes. Keep uo the good work!

[@alexsilverstar629]

Fun fact, I tried out both White mage and Astrologist, but Sage actually became my prefered healer class really early on, despite being a newbie. What helped me with the Sage specificially, was actually going onto The palace of the Dead with my friend, which gave me the possibility to learn from to bottom up. Now I am a lvl. 87 Sage, and despite still being nervous at times, I am growing more confident now. White Mage I think is still the most beginner friendly healer class, but it ended up not being my prefered one, personally. Haven't gottent to the Scholar yet, but I definitely love my Sage. Once again, thank you for the amazing video!

[@scriptorMfaust]

Great idea and I can't wait to see the other videos. You remain to stay my number one source of ff14 information and I cannot praise you enough for how well articulated, presented and actually real-life tailored your videos feel. Keep going!

[@jwmcq]

Petition to replace healer Hall of the Novice with this video, in full, and unskippable.

[@kaihoward7093]

Haha that would be brilliant

[@xenosaiyan-8106]

I'm using this guide to figure out if I should heal as a Red Mage

[@j800r_aswell]

Dude, this was fantastic! Seriously, good job. I wouldn't have considered myself a complete beginner to healing but I sat through this entire video and it held my attention constantly. Sometimes, because I could relate to certain situations and sometimes because I was realising I may not be as knowledgeable a healer as I thought. Always examining the tank when at dung start if you get the chance was great advice. I was gonna say to always gauge your tank/group to work out how much dps you can get away with and how much you need to be healing but checking gear can help as well. I always examined if things went wrong and a tank goes down like a lead balloon but doing so ahead of time can help both put your mind at ease and better prepare you.

[@nicolasescarpentier854]

Wow, thanks for yet *another* amazing guide! I've been loving healing and this just shows me how much room I still have to grow even on small sections I was already doing... it can always be better! I'm sure I'll end up watching this video almost monthly and still find new tips. If the intermediate (or even advanced) guide comes up, that would be fantastic!!!

[@Pi11ow]

Probably the most in-depth beginner's guide to healing. I'd recommend this to anyone just starting the game and looking to main heal or even just dabble in being a green DPS.

[@kfk4441]

Me who has mained healer since my first mmo: *Instant click *

[@blooberri666]

same lol. ive always been a healer, its my best role, but his fundamentals are always helpful regardless.

[@tomberhow4705]

Love your videos man you are one of the few that can explain to me in words I can understand. Keep up the good work ;)

[@SuzyQzyful]

Thank you for another detailed yet simply explained guide! I'm a sprout and I've been thinking about trying out healing now that I have more of a feel of how duties flow. This was defiantly helpful! Now I just got to think of which one I want to try!

[@k2k4]

This makes me realize that some of the 'bad healers' I had were actually pretty OK, and some of the 'good healers' I had were terrible. I've seen parties wipe because the healer didn't /couldn't cast rez mid fight lol.

[@drymeen]

Overal perception of a good healer is often biased or misunderstood. Even if I don't like the term, "lower skilled" tanks won't like a healer that let them drop low before healing, but that usually is a sign of a good healer. I've had RDM & PLD cast heals on tanks or themselves because I was doing damage after a raidwide/mild tank buster, while nothing was happening in the fight for the next 20 seconds. And there's no point hardcasting a heal when I have a ogcd coming back in 10 seconds that'll top everyone off.

[@Porako]

Thanks for this comprehensive guide! I had no clue what I was doing and that’s how I got here 😂😂

[@fairlyenjoyable]

I'm watching this whole video even though I main heals, just in case I've missed something or possiblyimprove my gameplay further. Thank you for the great video. 🤝🏻

[@johnmyers4392]

Your videos have been such a big help to me. Your humor and your easy to understand way of explaining things are so helpful. I am a former healer of wow (disc priest) I am looking forward to learning sage but I plan to start with a more simple set up first lol

[@lindaa9005]

oh my a healing video that is fair and balanced to all roles? it just doesn't get any better. THANK YOU. Must view for anyone, new to FFXIV or not

[@FlyteTeleus]

I clipped your pre-pull regen comment. I'm constantly corrected by people when i instruct them on how to handle large pulls as a WHM. Usually ill say pop sprint. Stick to the tanks heels cat regen+divine benison before or as the tank pulls. When the tank stops to control the ball of mobs. Swft + Holy+ asize. Then cure 2. Then holy again. 90% of the time this is how i handle the pulls. Im told do not regen before established aggro... Pre stormblood this was the case as threat was a bit harsher to control but with shadowbringers if the tank has threat they aren't losing it

[@Autiga1]

Enjoying all the content - super informative and unbiased :)

[@Ghilliedude3]

Especially with newer tanks I see a lot of people run in, grab a big mob, stop, start taking damage, then decide to run into the next room. Even if the healers close by I can see the frustration with stopping to cast (especially low level white mage) just to see that the tank is now out of range of that heal you prepared and has dangerously low health. This is something I mostly see in stone vigil since the enemies are starting to hit harder and well walls aplenty.

[@MurderOfAKiller]

i know in my case its just because im not used to having a cone aoe (my usual tank is gunbreaker, but im trying to level warrior) so i just sorta stutter step in a way to make sure i have aggro on everything before moving to the next pack

[@solosnek]

the eels meme actually made it into an hour long healing video, it truly was a legendary gift

[@callmeobsequious]

So yesterday I was healing in PotD and happened to get a luring trap on a floor with maximum HP decreased. I am not the most confident healer in the world, but I wanted to come back and say thank you. The points in this video helped me keep calm and keep everyone alive. Granted, we died a little later (though I don't actually remember why, I think I hit a landmine and got auto-attacked after and died on impact lol) but still. This video did help me keep calm during the absolute madness that was bad luck in PotD. Keep up the greak work.

[@SC-vq4zc]

Which glam are you using on your whm in the Sastasha section? I find that I universally dislike whm specific stuff, but that looks good. Please help! :D

[@WeskAlber]

Dun Scaith top

[@SC-vq4zc]

@@WeskAlber Many thanks! If there is anything better than being an effective healer, it's looking good while being an effective healer ^_^

[@m.a.w.5562]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS just what a dps main like me needed for leveling healers

[@mugen3603]

I just wanted to say that you have taught me how to play every single class I ever leveled in FF14. I don't know if you wear the Burger King crown in game, but you are a mentor to me, in the truest sense of the word. Thank you. I appreciate you, my dude.

[@WeskAlber]

Calling it the BK Crown is inherently contradictory to the praise you were trying to give. The name is inherently toxic and meant to demean ALL mentors as lesser people, not just lesser players.

[@mugen3603]

@@WeskAlber I wear the crown myself and call it such to humble myself. I find it funny and use it in a self-deprecating way. Can't answer for other people's intension and won't. So I will leave it at that.

[@WeskAlber]

I've had to deal with mentor abuse for the last 5 years since the system was first implemented. I myself can't do that because of as I said. When most people use it, that's what they mean. A lesser player, and a lesser person. You may not, but it's far too common an attitude

[@mugen3603]

@@WeskAlber The crown is meaningless. It's just an icon. Wearing it doesn't mean you are better or less than other players, and being without it doesn't mean you can't act as a mentor to other players. Some crown-wearers don't conduct themselves well. Hence the stigma. Don't suppose you'd like to answer for the bad behaviors of other crown-wearers. Likewise, I don't answer for the actions of players who have been abusive towards those who wear the crown. It seems there have been bad behaviors on both sides. None of which has any bearings on my comment. As I've said, I don't know if you wear the crown, and frankly, couldn't care less if you do or do not. I consider you a mentor because of the guides you've made to help new players learn their jobs. Your actions make you a mentor, not the crown and certainly not the label. I came to express my gratitude. If you choose to take offense instead, that is beyond my control. The sentiment remains, regardless. Thank you for the guides you've made. They have helped me tremendously and I appreciate it.

[@WeskAlber]

I think you're not seeing my point, but I probably didn't present it well either. The crown is meaningless, but the way people treat it isn't meaningless. Bullying and abuse is rampant based on the icon and icon alone. Key word SOME crowns are bad. And no, I wouldn't like to answer for the bad behavior of other people. And yet daily I have to answer for them, whenever someone comes around to be insulting. My perspective is limited, but I'm willing to die on the hill of "there's more people who abuse mentors than there are abusive mentors." That's how rampant it can get. Especially with circle-jerky places like reddit, hypocrisy incarnate where people regularly admit to open mentor harassment because... mentors harass people and that is bad... I'm glad I helped and thank you for your thanks, but my mentor vid didn't come from nowhere. This is stuff we "real mentors" get abused with all the time. And it's very easy to join in a circlejerk when nobody cares about the context of the events. Literally broke 10 rules in the ToS and mentors kicked you for it? WELCOME BROTHER TO THE BK HATER BROTHERHOOD! "Real" mentoring actively welcomes harassment. "Fake" mentoring actively welcomes harassment. And what is real or fake differs from person to person because "not letting me be a literal neo-nazi" is fake mentoring to some. But the common denominator always runs back to "lmao bk crown." And the common denominator between me and all the other good mentors who get lumped in as "fakes" is also the "bk crown." The only difference is I have a youtube channel, which doesn't make me a shining beacon. So does the flat earth nazi who used NN to spread nazi propaganda. And yet if my actions are what make me a mentor, there are FAR FAR FAR more "good" mentors, than bad ones. Because I'm not that great.

[@WeskAlber]

Oh, I was reminded from the run I just did: STOP *slap* USING *slap* MEDICA II *slap* FOR EVERY LITTLE PIECE OF DAMAGE! It's not useful in trash pulls, and it's not useful when NOBODY HAS TAKEN DAMAGE

[@Graficcha]

I'm almost afraid to ask but... Does it make sense to stack regens on the tank when one regen isn't enough and dropping, say, aspected helios on top of aspected benefic on top of celestial opposition etc.? Do those properly stack? I somehow got into a habit of using asp helios or a cheap ogcd 'on top' of the benefic regen somewhat regularly early or in the middle in pulls to try and keep the tank from dropping fast at peak mob times, and be able to spread out cooldowns more. The bonus regen on the other party members means I can entirely ignore them even if should one of them blunder right into something early, if they go below half health they'll patch up comfortably quickly. Gives me more time to spam gravity and help thin the pack asap, I can easily dps for quite a while and weave the occasional small heal on the tank this way until there's only stragglers left. I just really loathe having to benefic II and almost never do, so anything that lets me slow down how fast the tank plummets and control better when to ED I greatly prefer over ending up playing IV drip with second tier ST heals.

[@WeskAlber]

@@Graficcha Aspected Helios is an AoE regen, not a single target regen. You wouldn't use it period. Trash pulls aren't AoE situations

[@cicisstormshelter1076]

@@WeskAlber And from the looks of it, Astrologian will be a Regen healer because they are removing its sects so no more shield heals from it, because Sage is going to join Scholar in Shield Healing. I like Scholar, the story is great, and I hope the media tour reveals some hidden power Scholar has besides a spell that gives him a movement speed buff. Sprint is fine but remember, it has a 40 second cooldown so you will be walking for 40 seconds after you sprint, to simulate passing out from fatigue from fast dashing.

[@Foostini]

no

[@sequences8942]

@@Graficcha Weaving a skill like Celestial Opposition is fine, but don't waste a GCD on AH for single target healing. It heals the same amount as Benefic 2, except it is staggered over 6 GCDs, which means it is staggered over way more auto attacks and they've probably already done way more damage to your tank than the regen would have healed by the time it is finished. You're better off getting the 700 potency upfront, because the tank is going to have more HP for longer. The tank is actually dropping lower sooner, which is actually less space for mistakes, damage, or spreading your CDs. Also, Synastry on the tank applies additional 40% healing on single target spells (just the initial heal, not the regen so don't use it for Aspected Benefic) so you're missing out on a 980 potency Benefic 2.

[@yaminomarsh]

Wesk Alber this was like a small lecture, thanks for the help brushing up my healing

[@aanesijr]

A new Wesk Alber video? It’s Christmas come early. 😊 Still watching so not sure if you mentioned it, but latency can be a factor. I usually play more conservatively because my connection is always around 300ms and I’d rather err on the side of overhealing a bit versus mistiming a heal.

[@phishmastermike]

I agree with this

[@dd3darkknight]

Love all your videos and usually recomend them alot to people, im still learnimg as a whm for healer due to class jumping but im now focusing just whm and so far ive goten myself to if it drops under 50% stop dmg/holy spam and start healing

[@reloadpsi]

Keeping myself alive is the one bit of healing I still keep neglecting. Also, regarding "not all mistakes are on you." While that's often true, being in the mindset of not instantly blaming everybody else is just healthier - trust me, this very game taught me that :)

[@WeskAlber]

People are often quick to blame the healer for any and all deaths. Allowing yourself to be a punching bag isn't exactly healthy either

[@reloadpsi]

@@WeskAlber Thankfully I've been on my fair share of teams who know an impulsive suicidal idiot when they see one. It's the ability to go "uh oh, did I- wait no I didn't" rather than impulsively start raging at another player that I'm talking about really.

[@MrCaliban88]

As a WHM main since Heavensward (played BLM in ARR but enochian and leylines really aren't my cup of tea) i really like this Guide. Every beginner should watch your Guides. Very comprehensive.

[@BlitzedNostradamus]

I'm an AST main leveling WHM as a second healer. I just got on my lunch break so I'mma enjoy this. Thanks, Wesk.

[@brunobotti72]

I am fairly new to the game and trying to main heal. Unfortunately, I am getting a lot of tanks going back to back pools and had to raise them pretty much every section of a dungeon. But hopefully, your videos are helping me to heal better and Always Be Casting!

[@WeskAlber]

Do you mean wall to wall pulls? Yeah that's pretty standard practice but if the tank doesn't know what they are doing it can be rough. Just remember to keep to the advice with following close and popping Sprint when they do

[@dialaskisel5929]

This is all great advice for a newbie healer getting into the role. The only bit of advice I take issue with is the pre-pull regen advice. Yes, you are correct that as long as you are near enough to the tank for them to aoe, that you will be safe... In theory. In practice, it can throw off a tank when they realize that some of the trash pack isn't following them and they have to readjust to figure out what is going on. Even less attentive tanks may not notice or may ignore that the trash mob has been split up entirely leading to a quick healer death and/or an irritated newbie tank. It is still an excellent practice to get into using Regen a little before the pull has been stopped and fully gathered, but I would highly recommend to sticking to shields earlier on or during the pre-pull instead of using regen early enough to steal hate.

[@WeskAlber]

The thing is, if you are following the tank, the enemies also follow the tank. The tank should make sure to hit every enemy before moving on. If they run off without establishing aggro, that's bad tanking not bad healing. The tank shouldn't be trying to pull big if they don't know the basics of "do 1-2 attacks and hit ALL enemies" before moving on. In practice, I've never had an issue. Because I am ON TOP of them. WHM tendencies

[@Mir_Teiwaz]

Admittedly, keeping tier 1 heals on my bar is probably a thing I took from back when I played WoW where mana conservation always felt really important. It doesn't help that the healer I'm leveling now, Astrologian, has a trait that gives your tier 1 a chance to make your tier 2 a guaranteed crit. So far in FFXIV mana has never been a problem. It's always regenerating and the 1 minute CD on the mana regen role action is honestly almost too generous for how much it gives you back.

[@Nixitur]

I genuinely cannot overstate the value of Focus Target on your tank. One wrinkle to that which you didn't mention is if you wanna go back to dealing damage, just press T to target whatever the tank is currently targeting. No need to click around trying to find the enemy while dodging. This has _massively_ improved not just my consistency as a healer, but also my confidence. Knowing that targeting the tank for healing is nigh-instant makes it much easier to limbo, and being able to swap to whatever enemy the tank wants to focus down improves my value as DPS.

[@petrus9067]

I still remember the weeping city of mhach i used rescue on the other healer to not die to mega death. And the rescue i did on the dragoon who kept being hit by draw/cast on e12N right before ifrit aoe. Saving someone with rescue is SO satisfying xD (and pulling people back to the atomos pads in LoTA is fine too) That weeping city battle was a struggle by itself though. Lots of people dead i had to hardcast so many raises because the other alliances healer kept dying, plus the people in my own team. Was still really fun though lol

[@StriderHoang]

The Lost Puppy segment is such a vindication of all the arguments I don't have time or energy to waste being in. I have one friend in particular who uses the very same complaint: I can't heal this dumb tank if they're around the corner. But then why are you not around the corner with them? An AST is the only healer with a ranged aoe, even Sage is going to have the same aoe as WHM and SCH, aoe from melee point of origin, there's literally no reason to not be riding the tank like they are actually an American M-1 Abrams light tank.

[@AirriMikochan]

I'd like to offer some healer advice on, arguably, one of the scariest mechanics you'll encounter: Doom. Doom comes in two flavours, 'health lowering', and 'mechanic cleansed'. As a healer, it can be scary to see someone get Doom and not know which one of these it is, and that's okay! If you have time to ask for any tips before a pull, a good party will warn you which kind it is. Otherwise, the biggest tell is HP- it'll, obviously, be lowered when the debuff is applied. A 'health lowering' Doom is your responsibility- you need to heal that person's HP to full, or they'll die. The other kind is 'mechanic cleansed'- think Sunken Temple of Quarn, with the glowy squares, if you're familiar. But yes, Doom looks scary, but you've got the tools to handle it.

[@marks2807]

By the way great guide even as an experienced healer with two of the healing classes at 80 I learned a few things from this video.

[@starvm24]

I made an alt just so I could practice my whm behind the safety of a sprout. Healer anxiety 😅. This video was very helpful

[@GlowGamingZone]

Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. Excellent channel. If you can answer this question I would appreciate it : How a mage can abc if casting times are long and we need to avoid aoes all the time? Do you think there is a chance to remove casting time in all the classes that have it? Is it too much to ask for instant cast?

[@WeskAlber]

You have Instant casts, can slide cast, and many other options.

[@GlowGamingZone]

@@WeskAlber oki thanks :)

[@bluumberry]

Keep in mind: if you res someone normally, they are ressed at your position. If you res people with LB3, they are ressed where their corpse is.

[@zavizaoldyek2157]

to be honest as someone who played the last time in 2014 this was a good refresher

[@vihannes3]

PROTIP: Try setting shift+mouse wheel (do this in character settings, not in keybinds) to scroll through your party list. You'll feel like an idiot for having ever manually clicked their health bars to heal them or throw them a buff. I even use this for BLM's aetherial manipulation now. It's super good.

[@vihannes3]

@@beurtalvarez I don't think you can buffer macros though, also you have to make a new macro for every ability

[@agentstepp]

One thing about enmity being a tanks game…be careful with benediction. If you’re in a dungeon with an NPC or in the southern front with a tanking NPC and they’re one with a ton of HP (as in millions) where healing them seems to not move their bar at all…if you hit them with benediction it WILL work and fill their HP but at a cost, you’ll immediately rip enmity from everyone and everything and even provoke and/or other taunt skills won’t put them back on a tank (I assume the enmity generated by those skills are capped or something) so you’ll have to kite or die until the fight is over. I made this mistake and assume it would also apply to a situation where you’re spamming heals and they actually need it for an extended period or if the tank hasn’t gotten their enmity up enough.

[@AhriFae]

Really nice video! Looking forward for a ani version since I wanna main tank in ew

[@phatthra9416]

WeskAlber:What’s your sole purpose of watching this video ? Me:To do whatever you tell me,drill sergeant WeskAlber! 💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻

[@madmartin26]

100% dps 60% tank 40% healer may be true against bosses, but in dungeons i find that the healer damage is way higher than that. I track my dps as white mage, and I routinely match or exceed the dps’ damage by slapping regen on the tank, using assize, and then spamming holy. This includes runs with friends who know dps rotations and do their best to go fast, so it’s not just bad dps players. IMO if you’re using a gcd to heal during dungeon pulls either the tank is undergeared or something else has gone wrong. So I 100% agree with your point, just wanted to underline how much of a difference green dps makes.

[@BioMatic2]

if this guy got me through understanding dps jobs and tank jobs and will trust him to get me through healing for the first time ever.

[@badtiming2208]

9:10 Thank you for keeping this in. It was a good laugh to have.

[@Zelisius]

Console healer here. This might just be a personal thing, but I took esuna off my hotbar and made a macro with it on macro 98/99. This allowed me to remove esuna from my hotbar and bind it to my R3 button. I did this because esuna is not used that much, but when it can be used, it's very handy. But due to these situational uses, I felt like it was clogging up my hotbar. So binding it to r3 freed up a hotbar slot while also giving me a quick access to it for those moments that it IS needed.

[@CrispAndBurned]

Just started again after heavensward where i played scholar. Playing PLD and RPR now but don't wanna waste this msq exp so was thinking about picking up sage. First thing this video says is don't play sage lol. Gonna do it anyway though. Appreciate the guides man.

[@cappm4201]

Great video. I am looking forward to more like this for other roles. Do you plan to lump all the dps types into one video, or do separate ones?

[@WeskAlber]

People don't realize this, but other than stuff like slide-casting... most things are shared across every role within DPS. So yeah. One big video

[@aschenteworks]

One way I use to prioritize what DPS to raise if you've got multiple dead is the Weakness or Brink of Death debuff. People who don't have one of those get raised first because, all things being equal, they're doing better in the fight than those who have already died before and may just up and die again a few seconds after I raise them

[@mthebubble6565]

Thanks for this. Lots of garbage advice on KZbin. I hate when content creators talk about sprouts and newbies as if they’re mentally handicapped and can’t take in correct information and therefore need to be talked down to with patronizing simplicity and wrong advice.

[@christophbarra1841]

As WHM main the only thing I learned was, that I hate everybody but you won't die on me, you dang floortank!

[@Earlchaos]

Like the video. And i like how you show "How to 'Rescue' players" by completely failing it (the player still dies) :) For inexperienced healers i can only recommend to ignore rescue as 95% of the time you're just trolling but in the right moment it can save a player but you need to know the encounter very well for that. Apart from that totally agree with you, excellent video. And as you say - don't be afraid to heal (or tank or dps) only if you try something you can learn. Well done Sir!

[@WeskAlber]

If you mean the mach-bike section, they didn't die. The rescue was successful, I just didn't do it soon enough. The Susan clips meanwhile, AMAZING rescues

[@Earlchaos]

@@WeskAlber Ah, you're right, almost :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/noXJp2umqNSfjqM

[@Earlchaos]

So yeah, if you're knowing what you're doing Rescue can really save players but 95% of the time i got rescued, as DD or even as Tank, it was basically just trolling :) So you need a good understanding of what's going on before Rescue becomes useful.

[@WeskAlber]

That's why I made sure to say "wait til you're more experienced, but I wanna point it out as a real good skill"

[@pedramcq]

This is amazing

[@WeskAlber]

Nope!

[@LilithAnton]

This is extremely helpful! Thank you!

[@rikku343]

thank you so much for this. im a sprout and new to MMOs and I really want to get better at healing

[@caleydorrell]

Scholar is my favorite healer for wall to wall pulls. The non-targeted aoe makes keeping your tank alive so easy.