FFXIV - The Healer experience

I mained Astro from Heavenswards all the way till the very end of Endwalker and this summarizes some of my fondest memories! the video might feel mean spirited but i do truly love healing, even if its hard to describe why!
nowadays i main tank in FFXIV but i wanted to do this video before i made the Tank experience because it just felt right
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[@pedroscoponi4905]

Healing is like gambling. Most of the time, you're the babysitter, but every once in a while, just... 1 out of 50 dungeons... You get a tank who fears no god or man, pulls w2w with perfect mitigation, and then you remember why you play this role. I once had a run of Holminster so good, I'm still chasing that high months later.

[@zirilan3398]

Then you remember they where a WAR and you only spammed Art of War

[@OpXarxa]

I strive to be that tank. At the very least I do the w2w part. perfect mitigations... is a work in progress. But hey, I usually survive the pull, so I can't be fucking it up THAT badly

[@Zeithri]

I find that that's the rule as opposed to the exception. Majority of the Tanks, are those tanks.

[@nuclearsynapse5319]

I once had a WAR pull the entirety of dzemael all the way to the first set of locks, I have yet to feel that high again

[@fairlyenjoyable]

I love and dislike them. On one hand, I'm ecstatic to have a badass tank; but on the other hand, I get to just do my boring dmg rotation. The pros outweigh the cons, obviously, because a solid tank makes runs go soooo fast!

[@Pfincess]

"The healing is not as rewarding as the hurting"

[@felalot8801]

"I am going to saw through your bones"

[@HyouVizer]

@@felalot8801 LOL

[@desktechies2175]

"I'm ready, my friends" "Kill all your friends" "Ooh, good idea"

[@vincentbeaulieu5225]

Preventing damage is better than healing The best mitigation is killing the enemy Thus art of war is the best scholar spell

[@eolendes6432]

If only actually DPSing as a healer wasn't so, so, so utterly boring.

[@noxiepurr]

"You need to do the mechanic" BRO...I feel this in my soul. We need a support group.

[@thewonderfullymadejaraid7015]

In our first DnD campaign, I played a paladin and was the only healer, and I was designated as the medic and was entrusted with every healing item the party found. I loved the power of being the healer and tank that dictated whether the party lived or died.

[@BirdCyclops]

being both the healer and tank, i think, immediately makes you the dad/mom of the group its just that kind of energy

[@thewonderfullymadejaraid7015]

@@BirdCyclops just like the simulations.

[@john_7000]

In ff14 u don't have the power as a healer cuz a warrior literally can carry everything on there own they don't need a healer, u literally useless as a healer if u have a warrior as a tank

[@Dorunek]

​@@john_7000 shhh don't tell them that, it'll break their fragile god complexes that make them think the entire party is braindead except them

[@FlowersOfIcetor]

@@john_7000But you see, that just means we get to be green dps

[@wolffster25]

There is an age old saying I always remember when healing “You can’t out-heal stupidity.”

[@tatsuyakaiyo416]

I have that on a shirt

[@vashta_nerada]

"You can't esuna stupid"

[@user-yg7sh9fh2y]

"I heal the Man who will kill you" Basically the Healer.

[@JS-kr8fs]

That "That's okay." when they didn't know what Superbolide was speaks volumes.

[@thornangel16]

When you can heal the pain of others, but never your own.

[@pepekovallin]

Higashikata josuke Moment

[@JohnkyTonkbadonkadonk]

I feel this deep in my soul.

[@jy.creator]

I half-expected them to go "I also determine who lives and dies, so there's that.", ngl.

"I love healing and everybody should try it... PLEASE somebody else try it."

[@Limbergem]

This video speaks to my soul. I recently made a healer character in my DND group because I hated spending so much on medical bills.

[@BirdCyclops]

not even in the fantasy world of DND do we get free healthcare

[@Limbergem]

@@BirdCyclops I also love how this healer knows more about the other players mechanics than they do, like a little league coach 🥲

[@Nesto_]

My cleric heals unnamed NPCs as charity work far more than she heals the actual party, partly because whenever someone in the party gets hurt it’s because they were being stupid.

[@Limbergem]

@@Nesto_ I'm hoping to earn some favors from the places we travel with my healer. He is a bard support/healer build playing a Doctors Without Borders angle in a war torn set of neighboring kingdoms. (I'm calling it the sexy doctor build)

[@Nesto_]

@@Limbergem I know it’s probably not what you’re going for but that reminds me of Grigor Rasputin, a “healer” who had a real way with people and was at one point the most powerful man in Russia. There’s a fairly popular song by Boney M about him.

[@Nazo-kage]

Remember, if you’re a final fantasy type healer, you are still expected to deal DPS.

[@thornangel16]

“What do you do when your party’s full health? What do you do when your party’s full health? Or even halfway up and standing? DPS THE BAD GUYS!” -JoCat

[@angry_karakuri]

disconnect lmao

[@Nazo-kage]

@@thornangel16 “no I don’t pay your sub~ But when the fight goes too long. It starts to rub.~

[@Trelior]

​@@Nazo-kage "you don't pay my sub, you don't get to tell me how to play!" Conversely, you don't pay my sub to waste my time!

[@Nazo-kage]

@@Trelior no, I don’t pay your sub~ But when the fight takes too long~ It really starts to rub~ On everybody’s nerves~ And when you reach endgame reserves~ The boss will wipe the party because you Couldn’t be Enraged~

[@theiveyed8677]

This video is only a minute but it feels like 10 minutes from the raw amount of suffering in it. 10/10

[@SnthwaveSunset]

As a healer main, i can confirm its like a daycare

[@lupisvolk2420]

This video speaks to my soul. When I played FF14ARR on the PS4 I was a psychopathic healer.

[@IceFire1800]

this is the way

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

Is there any other kind of healer?

[@123aiakos]

Loved the documentary format.

[@stickginge]

I found it funny as my first time playing healer for a new character through the OG content and how it jumps from "eh, this is easy keeping people alive" to "OMG please slow down, my cast time is not nearly that fast to keep up with you running and aggroing 20+ enemies" XD I mean I managed it but got damn that were hitting double digits in HP

[@Noelle-M4]

Im sorry Adan, but I want to greed. Even if my jumps cause me to fall in the comforting embrace of death, Im gonna do it. Like a moth to a flame, Im going in, even if there is 5 danger puddles stacked together.

[@BirdCyclops]

You got this!! *leaves instance*

[@andrewdesalvatore7262]

Death is downtime! though

[@fauxwolf]

​@@andrewdesalvatore7262death is a dps loss that means less big numbers what will us dps do without big number telling us good job

[@Stephline13]

I'm a WHM main. The other day I'd just queued up into P11 and about a minute into the fight the other healer suddenly DC'd. The group had a bard and a dancer both throwing extra healing in to help out, but there was no RDM or summoner in the party for backup raises. We made it through with only a few deaths from people not dodging mechanics but otherwise no real issues. THAT is why I like healing: It was VISCERALLY satisfying to manage that situation and keep everybody on their feet, knowing it could've been a problem but wasn't. I got to use my toolkit! I got to do the thing my class is built for! It can be hard to explain why it's so fun sometimes because if you're doing your job right then ideally nobody really has a reason to pay attention to how much of your job you're actually doing.

[@Green_Ghost_Leif]

My experience as a healer is this: If I have time to dps = good tank. Also gods bless Summoners and Red mages who res.

[@pepekovallin]

I've felt bad for my healer once in Titan (Hard), dude decided to target him the whole fight and I've spent more time raising the healers than actually dealing damage

[@nekitakahashi8822]

As a fellow healer main, I feel your pain. You’re not alone ❤

[@akkebi]

It made me smile seeing someone else call them friends. When I tank I insist that they are my friends and I won't let anyone steal my friends.

[@devinbuettgenbach2941]

Poor Adan, you haven't discovered the absolute euphoria of Sage.

[@mannydani9180]

I honestly agree with the "everyone should try it" because you don't really realize how tough it can be, even in normal content, until you've experienced it. I main summoner but i also play a lot of Scholar and Dark Knight so I'm pretty experienced with each piece of the triangle so when i'm tanking, i'm making sure to use my mits as best as i can and hold all the aggro, as DPs i do my best to handle mechanics and to snipe resurections when i get the chance (healers need the MP more), and as a healer i do my best to keep an eye on mechanics and spread shields/regen as best as i can when something's coming as well as keeping an eye on people that seem to be struggling to try to proactively keep them up (gotten pretty good with rescue lately)

[@pepekovallin]

It's also good for understanding the classes as a whole, like, everybody knows red mages have a Rez, but not everybody know that they can't Rez anyone on in dungeons bellow level 60

[@pumpkingamebox]

Sometimes I’m so fed up with my party I wish I was able to heal the boss instead.

[@apathy2454]

Same lmao

[@pepekovallin]

It's funnier when you remember you can kinda do that in older FF games, you can use healing itens to deal damage on undead enemies

[@pumpkingamebox]

@@pepekovallin I remember I was confused one time about barrier shift. And Healed the Boss for the same amount of damage I was dealing to it, for 10 turns straight, lol.

[@Ch4pp13]

Healers are the reason people make it through content. Should be mandatory for everyone to experience healing. Makes you understand why some parts feel harder than others. Also makes you a better player, because you then know what makes healers stress out.

[@duraeusentenu]

Here's the thing, I watch lots of these videos about people who have to put up with dumb stuff from others while they themselves are healer, and I find them hilarious 😆 But I myself can't rightly say I know what it's like, because I usually don't get into situations where others are making my life hard as a healer. I guess I just get blessed ;-;

[@bionicdragon5]

0:46 I feel like I just saw Jerma's Mirror Dimension doppelganger.

[@cage5577]

The only game where I can outheal instant death was Happy Wars. Truly the best healer class in all of gaming.

[@MRboss11]

"If he dies, he dies."

[@bakubread9308]

the absolute most fun part of healing is when everything goes wrong and you have to scramble to save the party from almost certain doom. god i love healing.

[@Aitherea]

The red mage could be the only person alive aside from the tank and they still won't raise anyone.

[@BirdCyclops]

so true oh my god

[@ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff5]

This is very accurate. I play as a healer in most MMOs I play and, my god, the amount of times I ended up having to solo a boss because the entire party decided they have the zoomies is just.. depressing. lol There is a reason I started going for tanky healer classes.

[@Tletna]

I have always wanted to play an uber healer who just heals or protects the whole party, but in rpgs it is so hard to do. In table-top you usually just get used like a heal bot and in video games you not only get used as a heal and buff bot but you also have to micro like crazy. I just want to be a laid back healer who protects the party during combat and casts holy spells on undead and then heals the party afterwards. That takes a party who isn't all children like Adan described. Your support, mage, or healer (maybe a warlord instead) should be the party leader, but usually because you don't kill stuff, nobody will listen to you, until they need the heals or a revivify......

[@idkhowigothere2313]

As someone who plays a healer in every game I play I can confirm the reason I play healers is to fuck over my friend cause it’s funny to piss them off

[@PC-Doodle]

I found you because of these videos and I absolutely love your art and humor omg

[@BirdCyclops]

[@EurrikkeEdward]

eh. Whenever the tank doesnt do mits and the dps start running into telegraphs to collect vuln stacks is when I feel ALIVE as a healer. Because y'know- I get to actually heal and use cooldowns.

[@HyouVizer]

Sometimes I feel like that, when both the tank and melee dps get hit by same aoe. "Yay I get to use Cure 3 for once"

[@nesaiH]

i love the xeems and pint cameo

[@BirdCyclops]

I'm impressed at the fact that two people already noticed them lol

[@TitanDraugen]

I remember the time I did Amarout in duty roulette and the healer notices I kept failing to do the mechanics(I only did the dungeon twice before then) and they Rescued me to a falling surface and told me to do mechanics. It was the first time I met a salty healer. Plus side, it checked off the things I needed to experience in FFXIV.

[@Zedrinbot]

tfw the tank is doing wall to wall pulls in a level 89 dungeon while still wearing level 80 gear.

[@Esiaa]

I felt that, all of it. Especially the two friends thing. Last time I was running around the tank, trying to force him to notice me, while two mobs ran after me swiping at my ass. I tried to heal others and not die myself, while the corridor mechanics threw aoe damage at us. Unfortunately the tank did not notice me.

[@BirdCyclops]

Ah yes, the eternal dance between the competent healer and the clueless tank continues ever on

[@Squallcloud95]

I love that line : "What kind of enjoyment do i get of it? ................Well......... Hahahahahaha! So fitting especially with MMO you have often people that play and play and play and are miserable all along.

[@Tindall4CO]

I feel like the Tanks and Healers are the parents of the group doing their best to keep their sanity while dealing with their dps children

[@TheDaxter11]

I love how the Black Mage is Pint.

[@Local_custard]

honestly, yeah. I mained healer on my main. I have had these experiences. I love playing astrologian. I tried scholar, sage, and white mage. For a time I mained white mage before moving onto to astro. I love being support even if there is added stress ^^

[@nerdatello]

as someone who works at a daycare and mains WHM i can confirm the venn diagram between the two is just a circle

[@razorka1293]

Too true thanks for the content

[@fragrantiamella]

I'm a WHM main, all the way from ARR to EW. I think healing in this game is like working retail: everyone should do it at least once so they experience the horrors we do.

[@suzakurawr]

I love this LOL as a healer main I just love to see the chaos

[@gamergirlblu5278]

I’ve started grinding healer for tomestone gear (I just want a clean inventory, it’s almost always nearly at full capacity) and the summary of my experience for 50+ dungeons is pretty much this: *panicked screaming* I’m still new to big pulls ;-;

[@lPsychoMax]

I remember before endwalker came out. The healer was struggling to revive everyone so I said, don't heal me; heal the others. (to which he revived the other healer and tank, good choice tbh) but I wasn't a tank, I was a monk. Boss targetted me since I was closest and I decided to do the dumbest move ever. Stand infront of the bean of death; aimed at me, away from the healer and activate the defense buff before it hit. It worked; I died and the healer got to revive the tanks, the other healer and revived everyone. Maybe I didn't do anything. Maybe I was needlessly risking my life for them. But a healer's job is hard. Same with the Tank. It's why I wish we had more support dps classes (like how red mage can revive) to help them; if any tank or healer class is out there, on behalf of all dps I'm sorry for the spamming they may do, but also thank you for all your work.

[@whitemageserenia]

OUCH! Right in the feels >< you nailed it. I've pretty much experienced every single thing you mentioned lol, only difference is, I usually raise asap if I notice someone go down (which in turn results in RDM/SMN/Co-Healer wasting MP on a raise too... lol) but that's just gonna happen from time to time

[@FallenA-hr9lb]

My catchphrase is “Stop running away I’m trying to heal you”

[@NikoJr.]

The true enjoyment in being Healer is knowing you hold the party's life in your hands... *and taking advantage of that*

[@misssampo]

Look, healing may be constant suffering, but at least I don't have to deal with my crippling tankxiety while playing AST

[@Miraihi]

Green bunny that makes me feel good

[@underagedrinking69]

healing is a last line of defense. anything more than 1hp is supplement

[@venanreviews]

Amen

[@warlock1080]

As someone who mainly does SCH for healing, I'm glad I have yet to experience this

[@xitrum1902]

I died more as a healer than as a dps simply because I couldn't focus on dodging and healing at the same time. Scholar is my first Healer job simply because I played Arcanist.

[@TheWickedWizardOfOz1]

I started as scholar and I can't run a basic attack rotation while avoiding mechanics. Healing, though... I can do that. It's built into my bones at this point.

[@pepekovallin]

I once died on a boss fight because I was trying to use Medica 2 on the party, I didn't even noticed my low HP, and all I could do was say "sorry, I forgot I need to keep me alive as well"

[@SkydreamPony]

Oh I feel this pain...

[@wormwoodmain6677]

Maybe its just me but like actually doing my job. If i can go the entire dungeon without the chance to do any dps because im healing the whole time, i love it. I feel seen, i feel heard, i feel appreciated; even if im not. If im pressing the same two buttons over and over again... Fml.

[@robertjames6936]

Healers adjust! :)

[@HyouVizer]

Adjust to your zero HP bar :3

[@usubeni2544]

Healer main here! The thrill of chaos makes me feel alive.

[@BirdCyclops]

HOW OUR HEARTS SING IN THE CHAOS!!

[@apathy2454]

Definitely during alliance raids lol

[@SaraAliciaCaster]

I love being the healer because I get to control who lives and who dies And if your a bad job (no job is terrible only the player) and you die, you dont get the rest, you get the ignore marker

[@flamingrubys11]

this gives me such meet the vinbes

[@daydreamer9954]

Feel that, especially when most of the party dies and they all spam "healer lb" while your trying to dodge the next mech because you can bet your gil you'll die in animation lock before it goes off otherwise

[@luckyday5721]

I play healer when I'm bored of the other two and need to feel like I'm juggling while balancing plates...Yes I like Astro and Sage how did you know?

[@qwertyasdf787]

As someone who plays healer a lot in dnd, the "character ran too far ahead bit" is so true XD

[@dankerus9642]

Based Scholar main, i support your endeavors.

[@GamestMesa]

as a healer main i always end up with top aggro, its annoying but i just love playing warrior to much

[@PainMonkey]

It's me! I jumped off the edge!

[@Browncoyote]

Fun game with an awesome community. The glamor and lore, baby!

[@cosmicbrownie2312]

I mained every healer from arr free trial up until the last raid tier where I swapped to blm. It was a refreshing change of pace but I think I am ready to come home and feel the pain

[@NotTheWheel]

accurate.

[@babaspector]

after LoL and dark souls im addicted to suffering. healer is great

[@Kawn0]

as a summoner main I can confirm that I have had many healers giving me the death stare when I dont use my resurrect though to be fair im supposed to either swiftcast one ruby or my slipstream (usually the latter), but RDM gets DUALCAST, so they have NO excuse for NOT using their rez

[@Konpekikaminari]

They have one excuse- They are off the arena with the DRG

[@londoahv]

@@Konpekikaminari Of course. the DRG was out of range for verraise, RDM just closed the gap.

[@UltimateBingus]

If RDM raises during their melee combo, that's such a massive dps loss it's not even funny, and they struggle with MP if having to raise many in a row, otherwise yeah, it's just one lost gcd.

[@user-mu1os7me8s]

Reapers have an intimate relationship with death; we are good at killing things, but we are also killed a lot. I've been saved by healers more times than I can count, but it's apparent that there are healers who are tired of dealing with me, because they sometimes leave me dead for a long period of time.

[@blitz3391]

I think one of the main issue is that many players take healing for granted, and the gap between a "good" healer and an average player starts appearing quickly. As the tank gets more confident over the levels, and the DPSs have a better grasp of their class, the Heal has to be everywhere and do everything at once. Heal, DPS, rez, run around ... I play heal as a secondary job, but as a PAL main , it gave me quite an appreciation for the job and i try to be more careful in my pulls.

[@NekoValtz]

You know. I started as a tank. I was worried how good at tanking I was. Didn't want people silently judging me. Then I played healer for the first time and LEARNED that I was not the worst tank by a loooooooong shot!

[@CrisMind]

Yep, our healer is our dad essentially XD

[@3l1133]

Omg thank you for this... :'((

[@TheVenhammer]

I heal because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

[@WarGiver]

as a fellow SCH main I approve this message. (for some reason I find WAR and PAL tend to do their Mit correctly most of the time, while GNB and DK tend to not, no idea why, I have noticed this is generally the way)

[@BirdCyclops]

as a tank main: WAR has ha small amount of OGCD abilities so they can weave heals and mit without breaking their DPS rotation at all PLD has a built in healing rotation into their dps rotation and a bunch of ogcd mit abilities DRK and GNB have a lot of ogcd abilities in their dps rotation making it harder to mit without breaking your dps chain in dungeons so i guess they just might either be focused on DPS or not popping them on time

[@WarGiver]

@@BirdCyclops prob, makes me think they (DRK and GNB) are going to be reworked in 7.0

[@BirdCyclops]

@@WarGiver i dont know, they are trying to make the tanks all play the same so they might add more ogcd to war or take some away from drk and gnb? i think thanks are good as they are now, but we will see. i mostly main war for savage and hard content so i cant speak for DRK, PLD and GNB mains

[@phantomcrusaderhd1408]

So I started playing ffxiv pretty recently, I spent all of my time up until the last 2 weeks playing dps (specifically, machinist and summoner) and ended up picking up sage as my first healer job. Long story short, I now have a massive case of healer anxiety and feel obligated to say "sorry" to my healer at the end of every dungeon, much to their confusion.

[@Tenchinu]

the only financially, viable way to become a parent in 2023

[@MindOfGenius]

Being the healer means YOU HOLD THE BALANCE OF LIFE OR DEATH IN YOUR HANDS, SO NO I WILL NOT BRING YOU BACK FROM KO BECAUSE YOU WILLINGLY WALKED INTO A TRAP. OBEY MY RULES FOR STAYING ALIVE AND I CAN KEEP YOU ALIVE. Got it? Good. :3

[@terlondre]

From World of Warcraft: If i got a penny for every warrior that that zug-zuged out of range and out of line of sight and complained about not getting heals in arena match.... I ended up healing exclusively in guild groups, be it PvP or PvE because they they knew what to do and what NOT to do. Groups of randoms were too taxing on my blood preasure so i just DPSed in pugs

[@DirtyPorker69]

Could you make a second part or a series of this cause it is too good

[@BirdCyclops]

sure thing

[@embermoon999]

Gods I felt this one. I started because I wanted to help by healing…

[@BlackTempleGaurdian]

AH I remember this one time we had a wall-to-wall puller. It got so bad the DPS and I just stood there and watched him run off, then run back.

[@saninorochimaru2]

That first scene i TRUE'd myself into outer space

[@ashemage19]

gosh, this video made me miss queueing roulettes as a healer since all of them were level capped to 90. :((

[@Videomen102]

"Why do you play healer?" "Queue times."

[@mattvoelker241]

There's something deeply satisfying about warning someone 2-3 times about a mechanic, and just deciding its not worth the mana. I dont get that power from dps. And while i CAN pull aoe-prone enemies to the casters as a tank, its just not the same.

[@flameonboi]

Yes

[@zeng58]

As a healer for 7 years in mmo I love trying to predict players behavior it's hilarious 🤣

[@kennethpeterson7524]

Loads into dungeon "newish healer here" Tank sprints wall to wall no mitigation constantly breaking LoS, blames me for wipe

[@seralucii]

As a dragoon main who often switches to redmage to help with reviving if I know people will die frequently I totally feel called out. I don't often jump to my death on accident, but when I do it's in the most stupid ways. Though with Pandaemonium 12 I saw more healers learning to fly than anything, leading me to backflip to restart

[@VooshSpokesman]

Love from a Vaush and DoobusGoobus fan!

[@BirdCyclops]

Thank you! I knew vaush plays ffxiv but I didn't expect we would have audiencia overlap lmao

[@VooshSpokesman]

@@BirdCyclops Baseness has no borders. Nor classes. Seeing his clips and commentary like yours makes it seem like the tempting call of a kink. Like sadomasochism : P