Healer Guide | Introduction to Healing in FFXIV | Tips for Becoming a Better Healer

[@somerandomdudeable]

15:49 Holy shit the slidecasting tip with the emotes is a big brain moment. You learn something new everyday

[@gamegodtre141]

You dont need emotes to move while casting. The last .25 seconds you can move and the cast wont be canceled. After watching the vid....... damn thts interesting to know. I found out about it due healing during knockbacks and them going out after the push. I just did trial and error to feel it out.

[@DameBlackwell]

I've done all 3 ultimates, dont high end gameplay galore, all kinds of raids and have a tin of experience and I never knew the emote thing. That's so cool lmao

[@blastersekla]

same, im in shock state right now

[@zerodivided3676]

I'm a fresh sprout - so I don't know if it's completely similar, but based on my experience so far it is: the emote lights up as soon as the MP is ' spent' - so similarly, instead of using an emote, you can just watch your MP bar and , during your cast, as soon as you see the MP is spent (turn orange) it means the game has registered the cast and you're free to move / slide cast. Of course, your MP bar should be significantly large enough for you to notice the ' spending' so an emote icon might work better for you. Personal pref I imagine; I've just learned to slidecast on ' MP spent' myself.

[@marslara]

@@zerodivided3676 I feel like thats far more practical as not everyone has a bunch of emotes visible at all times

[@Robert_Jacobs]

I literally came into the comments to say the same thing. I’ve healed multiple EX and Savage and had never seen the emote for slidecasting tip. Mind blown!

[@SidMajors]

I know right. I mean I did slidecast but this makes it so much easier. Can do it way earlier than I thought.

[@christenlanger]

I main healer and still watch videos like this to make sure I haven't forgotten the bases. I've yet to heal an ultimate because of the time commitment but maybe someday.

[@richardwhite3521]

Basics or bases? Both, I guess?

[@JorgeSilva-yp7gi]

Such attitude will get you there for sure. Well done !

[@Melissa-jb5mi]

Momo out there, doing God's work. I hope tanks will watch this as well to understand what is going on on a healer's screen as well.

[@yuzuki2385]

This is why I play 4 different classes, and started leveling them all, for experience and not just nag.

[@Sancturios]

@@yuzuki2385 Same! I started levling a whitemage on my tank, just to get a feel for healing. Since im still stuck in the pro active healing problem. Since im used as a tank to either have full hp or death.

[@BoatingIowa]

Sick video. Really tight editing, script, and voiceover that does an excellent job getting the fundamentals across way more efficiently than any other community resource I've seen over the years.

[@FFXIVMomo]

Thanks :D

[@martinhorner642]

So in summary; know your job, know the tanks job, know the fight, know all the spell interactions including those outside your job, know how to setup your ui, know how to press all your buttons on pure instinct (23 primary on lv70 sage, btw), plan ahead (but expect it to fail), don't panic and ffs... do it all at perfect sub-second accuracy. Oh, and have fun.

[@djbcubed]

As a new player that slidecasting emote tip was amazing. 10/10 amazing guide best I've seen so far.

[@zidaryn]

For a more hilarious version check out JoCat's Crap Guide to Final Fantasy. I'd watch all of them for the advice as well as the laughs.

[@starvm24]

Just got to lvl 52 on my whm. I suffer from tunnel vision so much! It’s not that big a deal on dps, but on whm I always forget to heal MYSELF 😅😅

[@MrDAVIDGBJONES]

Same lol 😆

[@Demonboy007]

There's a time for rock toss and time to babysit.

[@Justaguywithglassesok]

i actually find it super awkward to focus on myselfxD healing others is fine but once i take damage i go panic mode and idk what to do

[@ribonella9690]

SAME I get so focused on my teammates that I forgot I'm taking dmg too😭😂

[@SubduedRadical]

"Physician, heal thyself." One of the cardinal rules of the medical community and from ancient times (Greek, I believe) - a dead doctor cannot heal anyone. It's similar to the saying "a dead DPSer does 0 dps". I remember playing WoW at some point the Devs realized this and gave all the healers something that would passively heal themselves as they healed others because of how often healers would forget this. Believe me, it's not at all uncommon. :) AOE healing here and there helps with this, and as a WHM, just remembering to throw a Regen on yourself here and there can usually go a long way to patching you up.

[@Duro.]

I'm always dc'd or dying in your videos. good vid bro

[@FFXIVMomo]

ROFL

[@helarnehunter4858]

Level 49 white mage here. This video was worth watching just to learn about the slide cast alone. I suck at moving and casting and this could be a lifesaver for my group.

[@MMOByte]

As a Warrior main.. I’m finding it difficult keeping track of everyone’s HP even in dungeons lmao.

[@KjPOPsicle]

There is a way till there's not. I love this so much cause I understand it. This is my mindset in situations that looks like it can't be saved. It naturally sets in from just healing for a long time and knowing the fights. Experience makes healers wiser!

[@EliteAssass1n]

Thank you so much for this vid, been wanting to guide some friends to healing and this will be a great way to get them started!

[@FFXIVMomo]

Baby steps!

[@twilightrealm4267]

Thanks! That was really helpful. I'm new to healing coming from years of dps and it's kinda stressful. I didn't know there was a timing for slide casting, I'm usually just trying to get in one more cast as dps; I'll definitely try the emote thing too so I can make a more conscious use of it.

[@marajademiller477]

Excellent guide

[@SnthwaveSunset]

I do this still as astro because of scholar habits, i'll use aspected helios or earthly star

[@MoRanes]

This is great! Thank you for making these. Just got in to Savage raiding (as Astro) and I appreciate all the resources!

[@JeffRimer]

I'm coming to this video a year after it was released and it's still super helpful. Just the concept that FF 14 healing is more proactive than reqctive is a big mentality shift that will help me out.

[@smitemil]

I learned a lot from this video and felt that it helped me start working on my rotation right away, thank you!

[@peppermint7152]

I main healer and I tend to watch videos like these to get an idea of what kind of information is out there for newer healers. And in my experience, it's kind of a mess. There are a lot of videos out there with a fair amount of sound advice that, unfortunately, also have some very awful advice (e.g. "Save benison for tankbusters!") This makes it very difficult for me to recommend a video to anyone lest newer players develop bad habits. This is the first video I've watched where it's obvious that the creator actually does main healing and play it at a high level. This is an excellent starter guide. Thank you. Moreover, I'd also like to thank you for making a couple points: 1) Precast regen/aspected benefic really does help a lot during dungeon pulls provided you stay close to the tank. This is something I see a lot of tanks complain about (presumably a holdover from SB, where enmity management was more difficult), so I'm happy to see someone finally dispelling that notion. Personally, I try to stay a few steps ahead of the tank if I don't have sprint, otherwise at their side at all times. 2) Thank you for reminding healers to focus on party health before raising. This is one of the most crucial rookie mistakes I see healers make time and time again (even in ultimate raids, sadly). I'd even go so far as to say you shouldn't swiftcast a res before ensuring that the party is healthy. Sometimes a single gcd is all that stands between your party and death.

[@SubduedRadical]

I think it's because of the levels we're talking about. For example, if advising a BRAND NEW healer, I WOULD recommend they save Benison for tankbusters (especially if they have a GNB or ESPECIALLY DRK tank in case they pop their invulns). Bene isn't a great reactive heal because of the weird lag delay thing it has, and has a long CD to boot, making it preferably used as an emergency backup for new healers. On the other hand, once a healer has gotten used to using oGCDs for spot healing with Tetra and pre-shielding tank busters with Divine Benison, then shifting Bene into a more normal place in one's rotation makes sense. There's also a difference between if we're talking DF, PF, or a static, and even which fight - for example, a popular Titania cheese was to tank invuln 3 of the 6 strikes of her lightning tether swap attack. With a DRK, this obviously necessitated a use of Bene. HadEx also had a similar mechanic of solo tanking the buster cheesing. So here, it depends on both the skill level of the player the video is for, the level of content they're doing, and the type of party they're grouped with. I think that's why you get so much variability. The only way to avoid this is to give ridiculously vague "advice" that is mostly common sense (always be casting) or not really specifically helpful, and even those can be a bit wonky sometimes.

[@Masenken]

Found slide casting on accident. Didn't know it had a name. Was just trying to avoid AoE's and noticed I was still casting while getting out of dodge. So now I just do it

[@walpurgisnight7]

I come back to these videos, (for every class, as well) frequently to remind myself of all the techs I may have forgotten to keep up on.

[@funnycathehe]

very good video but a quick thing with the slidecasting emote trick - the emote lights up at around .35 seconds remaining when you can slidecast at around .5s remaining so it isn't something to rely on once you have learned to slidecast comfortably

[@FFXIVMomo]

it usually glows at .4s but you can move slightly earlier than when it glows actually it's just when learning it can be a good tool. I don't know if it's in those clips but if you move before it actually glows but you slidecast registers it'll glow up earlier than normal.

[@yaphetbruce9321]

I just started my White Mage journey last week, and you can be sure that I am going to be coming back to this video in the future.

[@AnimatronicBadgerlord]

Not going to lie, your voice is very soothing. It's like healing for the soul. Thanks for all the info, I'm about to start Savage Raiding as a Scholar and I'm a bit nervous.

[@Aitherea]

I was always taught NOT to use regen before a tank pulls because then the mobs come at me instead of the tank xD which is annoying for most tanks I've come across. But staying close and using it anyway is an interesting idea.

[@FFXIVMomo]

Either you had inexperienced tanks or you weren't utilizing it properly. I've done regen prepull and never had issues even with less experienced tanks because if you pull aggro for a couple hits it's fine as you're next to the tank for them to pull back.

[@Aitherea]

@@FFXIVMomo I will have to try this tactic and see how it goes!

[@EVE-Muutaras]

Yep. Same for me like when I'm tank. If someone put on me HoT before I go in crowd, I sometimes cancel this HoT or it will be like with dps who try to do dps while tank doing big pull "Good luck with aggro man, I'm not going to back and again hit enemy if you can't wait 10 seconds". And playing on AST 90+% of times I use my lovely nocturnal sect for mitigated dmg. (Sad because of 6.0 AST's sects)

[@wineaddict6625]

Wow that emote trick at the end is pretty useful thanks for the guide bro.

[@fairlyenjoyable]

Fantastic tips and tricks! I will definitely be implementing the emote slidecasting into my HUD now. Many thanks!

[@MrIcingdeath22]

I wasn’t aware of the emote trick for slide casting. Ive just been eyeballing it. Thanks!

[@RedRobinTitan]

Informative video. Really appreciate the emote tip for learning slide casting. That's a fantastic detail to learn, and, among other tips, I'll be adopting that into my learning kit for healing.

[@eikopoppy29]

I was trying to explain slide casting to a friend who started playing recently and I wish I'd seen this video first. Like a lot of other commenters I didn't know about the emote trick and that would have made it so much easier. Another thing that might be helpful for new players is to explain spell queueing of OGCDs during your cast bar.

[@VashTown]

Best thing anyone told me about healing is that I'm a dps with an extra duty of keeping the team not-dead.

[@bighouse5804]

the problem with that design is that the heal specs are literally 2 button dps rotations (DOT and filler)

[@jeffreydanielmaurer9159]

Big problem I have with healers in ffxiv (and this is coming from someone who mained scholar in SB and did AST at high lvl in ShB) is this toxic notion that has built up over the years that you SHOULDNT heal "Only the last hp matters" "If the dps are eating avoidable mechs its their fault" etc. It tends to just result in people sitting at low health and dying to raidwides while the healer spams their dps skill. Then a cascade of rez panic, oom healers and eventual wipe. For some reason it seems to be a very difficult concept for a certain mindset of healers in this game to understand that "Dont overheal" and "Dont heal until the last second" are completely different things even if they toe the line.

[@williamnolen9695]

I fell into this mindset recently and kept thinking my job isnt to heal, its to keep the party from dying. I started playing sage though and getting adderstings when my shields break and it has completely flipped my mindset, instead of purely reactive healing, I am now getting rewarded with free toxicon attacks when I proactive heal. Making my mp management so much easier and making me feel like I have gotten better at all healing jobs

[@jmichaelstone]

New player clicks play on an "Introduction to Healing in FFXIV" video. Sees a whole-ass spreadsheet 100 seconds into said video. Immediately rolls a DPS character instead. You and I have very different definitions of the word "introduction." LOL

[@FFXIVMomo]

The spreadsheet is just there to show a more proactive approach. Myself and others hardly use that kind of stuff outside high end stuff.

[@peppermint7152]

If you repeatedly run the same content, you'll probably develop a mental spreadsheet without even putting one to paper--which is the point I believe Momo intended to illustrate. It's something that comes naturally and is applicable to all roles (e.g. DPS mitigation cooldowns, rotation adjustments to match the flow of the fight, etc) You're not likely to encounter actual spreadsheets in game unless you're progging an ultimate.

[@lunaebanshee5236]

Hey Momo, i want to thank you the Video :) The first Two Sections are very helpful for me as a WoW Player who has the reactive Healing so deep in my Mind. I healed like every Content till the last expansion. I Leveled my Sage in FF after reaching 90 with my Dragoon and its like day and night. Dungeons where fine till i reached max Level. My tank was limit testing me the whole time but it was very fun. Just healing like i knew it from my former MainGame very many years. Now at the Endgame i have a little Problem with my "Role" in a Party. I dont like the Idea to be a DPS-Player who Heals "sometimes". But i´m very aware that this is all because of my Mindset as a former WoW Healer and a DPS Player in FinalFantasy. I will try to evolve and rock the Role :) so Thank you very much for this :)

[@iwapje]

The emote thing left me speechless 👁👄👁 I always just went on feel and learned the sweet spot for different jobs that way, but holy shit this is a game changer when I am gonna help my friends get better at it

[@astorant7084]

8:13 you can also once hitting level 50 onwards buy the highest ILevel Poetics gear for that Expansion every 10 levels. For example the 130 gear from ARR will last you until 60 where you can buy the 270 gear Heavensward gear, the same applies to Stormblood and Shadowbringers however you’ll probably need to swap to the strategy mentioned here once you hit Endwalker.

[@andreewmaii1149]

Hey men! Lov ur Vid! I am a main healer and we need more vids when this to improve more! Keep it up and take my like!

[@NioNerd]

Great video, Momo! I've been wanting to get into healing savages and eventually ultimate and this will help me get better. Thank you :>

[@FFXIVMomo]

Hope this helps you on your journey to becoming the GREATEST HEALER!!

[@Sagasaurus]

For anyone who watches this video in prep for picking up sage as your first healer, I'd suggest working your way up dungeons and adding skills to your hot bar. Like first a lvl 30 dungeon, then 50, and so on. Healers are unique where they have a ton of skills, making it hard to remember them all. And when poop hits the fan you may freeze, not knowing what to click. Making these skills become second nature will help, compares to just jumping into a lvl 70 dungeon. Also, rely on your Regen. It can do almost all the work for you at times. This is perhaps the most important skill to learn as a healer. Knowing how strong your Regen is. I've seen many players multi cast aoe heals after large raid wides, when in reality, a Regen skill will often top them off before the next raid wide.

[@SubduedRadical]

I'd add a correlation to this: If you play an existing healer and swap to Sage (especially from SCH), a lot of abilities are SIMILAR. It helps to put them in a similar place on your action bars. I did this years ago when I went from WHM to dual maining WHM/SCH. Putting my small and large single target heals, main AOE heal, and damage spells in the same place for both made it a lot easier to pick up. While each healer is distinct, they all have a nuke, DoT (okay, SGE has that modifier for that, so put it where your DoT ability is now), a small and large single target heal, at least one AOE heal, a strong oGCD single target heal, an oGCD AOE heal, and at least one button that mitigates incoming damage. Oh, and the staples of Swiftcast, Raise, Lucid, and Surecast. Also Sprint and Limit Break. Putting these in the same place on your bars across healers lets you leverage muscle memory to your advantage, and can also help prevent accidental fat-fingering of things you DON'T want to use at the wrong time, like LB.

[@Fudge-_-]

Great video and fantastic advice! To anybody else maybe thinking you need serious dungeon knowledge to be able to heal pro-actively, you can comfortably get by healing reactively until you have run the dungeons/trials/etc. a few times 👊😎 This is the boat I’m in, and the worst thing SE could of done is remove my sprout status!! 😅

[@guifmurb]

Good guide my friend, always looking up to you besides the jokes

[@FFXIVMomo]

gulf owo

[@guifmurb]

@@FFXIVMomo mommy uwu

[@0MosDefinitely0]

Omg, that slidecast tip was god sent

[@NaitomeIya]

Holy before a pull ends. Made the same mistake many times, just as I've seen many others make the same mistake. But only when you mention did it click to me lol. Aight, mid pull = no holy!

[@Maikshikari]

THAT EMOTE TIP IS GALACTIC IQ, THANKS FOR THE VIDEO

[@trxyjxzy1075]

Great video but healing in wow is also proactive, healers have to ramp and plan ramps out. Being a reactive healer in wow is actually worse than being reactive in xiv just because of how vastly different the kits are. You can't be reactive when your kit requires you to ramp up to be effective.

[@MrDavidCollins]

I totally checked out when the first spreadsheet appeared.

[@zeng58]

As a high veteran healer of m plus from woI love this a lot

[@kingcupcakes5171]

2 cents I really like the informative video and I didn't know about the emote even though I've been doing savage raids. However I think the video might be misleading for actual new players or people getting into healers, atleast the format of the video is because it says *introduction*. An example would be that the video immediately starts out about raids and how you should pre-plan ahead but since it's mentioned that this is just fundamentals and the mentality of a healer should have, it kinda implies that every dungeon every trial every normal raid content healers should go look up a spreadsheet from the perspective of a player with a lvl 1 conjurer. I think it would be better to start with the early levelling part because normal dungeons is probably 90% of the content that players do.

[@an_birb]

I would consider my time watching this video worthwhile even if all you mentioned was the emote tip for slidecasting - I'm working that into my setup the second I log in next!!

[@SacredDaturaa]

New player, and the tunnel vision thing is real. Sometimes I'm so focused on the top left corner of my screen making sure no one is dying that I lose situational awareness and don't realize I'm standing in an AoE. I'll definitely be fiddling with my HUD a bit more.

[@gregoryjamaalfulton]

Trying to get into healing for thr first time I feel as if I'm overhealing. I do dps but I feel sloppy. Like I know I can optimize better. This guide helped point me into he right direction

[@wickanchaos7781]

ive played XIV since 1.0 and you absolutely destroyed my mind with the emote hahaha

[@KenwickVenture]

Hey, Momo I know this video is old but I was wondering if there could be a continuation to this video. Recently Xenos, you, and other streamers have been talking about balance and looking at logs to discuss balance. One video I think could be helpful is how to use FFlogs to improve as a player, Xenos recently did one and I think it was informative. Since I started my own raid team this tier I have come to realize lots of players don't really understand how to use logs to improve I think doing something similar to the video Xenos did but for healing would be really helpful for players and healers looking to improve.

[@ajp1282]

I main tank, played a few dps classes, and now I'm shooting my shot at healing job (white mage) and I now have a new appreciation for healers. Still getting used to the rotations during raids but I welcome the challenge.

[@KazumiKiguma]

11:45 Oof, that poor DRK hasn't learned never to use TBN immediately after pulling when grouped with a WHM. RIP.

[@schitzie]

the emote trick got me good i didn't know that was a thing. 5Head tactic

[@chrispysaid]

"Are you new to the game, or just got into healing? *_HERE, READ THESE SPREADSHEETS HAHAHAHAHA_* "

[@vuyosadike1682]

awesome video man

[@bulebule87]

Very helpful !

[@serpently9404]

Wow never even heard about the emote thing XD thanks great video

[@hedidit55]

ty for the HUD tips, I tunnel vision a lot, gotta move my hotbars up

[@corbenikgaming7688]

An easier way to tell if he can do Slide cast is you look at your action bar and when it’s about 90% full that’s when you can start doing it

[@Verbose_Mode]

Literally here because I'm new to XIV, progressing as WHM, and I just met Odin last night and wondered if I'm just playing badly. Apparently not, he's just a monster.

[@NavaSDMB]

Something I rarely see mentioned (you do have it in the infographic) is that if there's RDM or SMN, they can raise too. You can let them do it... they may finish whatever they're casting, rather than cast raise before the corpse hits the floor, but hey... that DPS should have moved faster anyway.

[@Ladylunatic90TTV]

I Have Only Been PLAYING FFXIV for a year now And only recently turned to healer as initially I avoided playing as a healer because I panicked Being A Ps4 player i am waiting for the restrictions are lifted so i can attempt to play on pc as i got one for christmas this year i am watching this so i can get more information so this helps

[@MattW..]

Great vid for sprouts like me, thanks

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

7:20 ish, in regards to setting up UI. I have found that setting up my bars similar to how my keyboard is, For example. the way your TXV is setup would throw me off, t x v are fine binds, nothing wrong with that, but where they are placed on your screen, can often help you find them in an "oh shit" moment when you are flustered. My bars are very similar to yours, however the ordering of the binds on them is what changes. Another way to show this would be - bar 1 - rather then the F1 and ect keys I use shift 1 2 3 4 5 6 bar 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 bar 3 Q E R s+R t s+t ect ect bar 4 Z X C V B g s+G

[@goaway5297]

Excellent info.

[@AbissPlay]

Is there a way to disable the cast bar from the party list? it covers 100% of the healthbars way too often

[@OryzaMercury]

great video!

[@phillip3075]

Amazing video! As a healer main I picked up on a couple tips here. Will you be making an updated infographic for Endwalker to include any potential ability changes and Sage and Reaper both being a thing now?

[@univaforte188]

im relatively new to the game and play more slowly, so far ive been maining SMN, but i always wanted to play healer, just didn't really wanna do the msq as one, i'm about lvl 60 now and decided to switch to WHT (currently 35 as of this) and i felt a lot of this video, the mentality is so much different, so much more you need to pay attention to, and, of course, panicking when people start taking damage. mostly im just asking myself "ok do i need to wait to heal, or do i just start doing damage." ive done a few trials to test myself, and dungeons are chatic to me XD.

[@TeethsChatter]

oh snap. vid drop!!!!!!

[@TheCapi246]

@FFXIVMomo Just started the game and these videos have been great! I have a question on your keybinds. Is there a video on the thought process of why you set them up that way etc? I'm having a hard time setting my keybinds to something manageable (in WoW I had a set up where 1 hand did everything). Thanks!

[@Obsolete_Zero]

Pretty useful video if i say so myself with a great amount of useful tips to help all players, great job Momo! also if anyone knows plz tell me what top piece is the character wearing at 8:27 it looks very nice.

[@snuffles-]

that's the edenmorn/edenmete gown of healing, edenmorn being the dyable version but only obtainable from the savage version of e12

[@alloounou6900]

With the endwalker changes to make all healers have a 1.5 second cast with a 2.5 second recast, the ability to slide cast won't be as crucial. Having said that, it can still be beneficial to have that extra .5 to move.

[@c.s.7993]

The problem I have is I'll get unsolicited advice in toxic manners and it makes it hard to actually have fun or want to heal that particular person but I try to rise above that kind of toxicity.

[@kenn_erogaki]

got sch world 25 in 5.4 and still thinking momo sama's video is fruitful for me

[@dragonknight1k161]

Great vid, since I plan to do healing more in 6.0 only question is how do you do the mouse thing that you hover over someone on party list to heal them instead of tab target. Learning this would be very helpful

[@FFXIVMomo]

It's called a mouseover macro! just type in /ac "ability name" in a macro :D If you want the icon to be the icon of the ability you can use /micon ability name

[@dragonknight1k161]

@@FFXIVMomo much appreciated, just gotta find time to implement this

[@NightwalkersReprisal]

@@dragonknight1k161 Keep in mind that since you are using a macro there may be some situations where it makes a mistake. Macros cannot be entered into the action queue, so you'll likely have to spam the button to get it to work or repeat the command multiple times in the macro to reduce failure chances. For example /ac "Tetragrammaton" /ac "Tetragrammaton" /ac "Tetragrammaton" /ac "Tetragrammaton" /ac "Tetragrammaton" /ac "Tetragrammaton" /ac "Tetragrammaton" /micon "Tetragrammaton" It's still a very useful tool and can save your tab target finger, you just need to keep this in mind

[@tibowmew]

You mentioned using esc to cancel casts and switch quickly to another spell. Is there a version of this for console? I've been using the stutter step, but the other way looks way faster

[@redgeoblaze3752]

I like doing damage and all, but nothing feels better in this game than playing healer (or maybe scholar. That's the only one I've done.) Stuff like raising one tank and healing them up to full with some well saved insta-heals. Yanking a team-member into the safe zone when they can't make it there in time. Even stuff like weaving healing in between my attacks.

[@zidaryn]

It hink showing the spread sheets at the beginning might scare some people off healing. Unless you're going for supper high end stuff you don't need to be that optimized.

[@elukajiro3233]

I have really big problems learning and playing Healer. I really dont know what to do anymore, watched many ressources, vids etc. but I can never play like an average healer. When I already see the fundamentals of healing and I see spreadsheets, my brain dies. Im that kind of person that can only play easy classes, and even that not good. I just dont understand how I can improve after trying to learn for years :(

[@jayr7613]

I would definitely go back and re edit the screens showing anything ACT as third party tools are NOT allowed and bans definitely happen. Even though you're trying to help, you should never be showing that on your screen.

[@jayr7613]

@@bertusnel8490 harassment is one way to get in trouble yes, blatant evidence on KZbin is also another way

[@jayr7613]

@@bertusnel8490 broadcasting 3rd party software can get you banned. I just told you it is.

[@jayr7613]

@@bertusnel8490 do you see how stupid saying "I just told you...." comes off as. Its doesn't matter how long someone has been making videos, if theres tutorial videos on how to set it up. That shit is completely irrelevant to the fact that if someone from SE notices this video and they say "oh. Third party software.....oh, it shows his name too. They can absolutely ban someone. Take you head of out that cave ass and realize that it can happen. Just because it hasn't, doesn't mean it's not possible.

[@tsukuyomisama001]

Some healers (especially white mage) focus too much on dealing damage in dungeons. They kept spamming Holy and didn’t heal at all until the last second. I have had an experience being a tank and died 2 times coz that fucking white mage didn’t do his healing job at all, believing he is one of the DD.

[@ShadingNight]

That's a player and a design problem. Squenix's damage output/fight mechanics have encouraged healers to do damage and develop a god complex. They really need to rework everything to where healers can output minimal damage for MSQ content and make dungeons/raids/trials do more damage so they to heal more.

[@ShinSenshi]

Btw would you by chance be able to share that TEA mitigation doc you screencapped? Looking for a template to work off of for TEA specifically lol

[@aurel8872]

Honestly the only problem with healers in this game is that the DPS as much as possible is such a good but annoying advice to follow since DPSing is so boring. Wow cool DoT one button spam :( In the end Astrologians are the most fun for me cause of how much I want to click at once. It got so bad that even if I love it, I will probably switch to tanking where I at least have some fun things and also different free MMO on side with more satisfying healing. Still I have to thank this guide for helping me learn healing even though I am bad still(I have very bad attention problems djnewd I try tho I recvently had three Dun Scaiths in row where I did not die once. )

[@MacTaipan]

I have some extent of admiration for good players, particularly healers (which, sadly, often enough only lasts until they prove to be asses). Basically they need to know everything that‘s going on on the screen. I‘m struggling a lot with this. Oftentimes I don‘t even know what that specific coloured circle on the floor even means. And to be honest, sometimes I don‘t want to know. Why do I have to know that a Dark Knight needs to be healed to full health after a certain one of his skills? If I wanted to need to be familiar with Dark Knight mechanics, I‘d play a Dark Knight.

[@UltraNyan]

2 types of toxic tanks: 1. Applies every speedbuff and runs off like sonic to commit seppuku with mobs at the other side of dungeon 2. Calls you a bad healer if health drops bellow 50%and you dont overheal him every moment

[@DezrathNLR]

Love this video, lots of great information. I moved over from WoW about a year ago and have been wanting to pickup healing in FF but have been a bit intimidated because of how different it feels, and was procrastinating because Dragoon was so fun. This definitely took the edge off the intimidation factor, and I'll def look into your other guides as I start leveling one of the healers (SCH or WHM not sure which yet). One question I've had for a while though is, is it possible to do mouseover casting macros in FF? It made healing way easier in WoW and I have to confess I was quite spoiled to it lol.

[@divaluxe_]

We love momo videos!

[@FFXIVMomo]

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[@jameshenry4665]

Thanks for the vid mate. New player here with a question. What is the benefit to slide casting as I noticed in the vid you still have to contend with global cooldown? Is it just for the quicker mobility? Maybe I missed the point in the vid sorry

[@LiliRoche]

You want to slide cast to move. If you know where the next safe spot or where the next mechanic happening, you can inch your way towards that spot by slidecasting instead of using something like ruin 2 or using your dots (it also relates to the always be casting rule).

[@injustice4647]

Really interesting, didn't know about the emote tech for slidecasting, will definitively apply that on BLM :v

[@TheNinthFaith]

Hi ;) complete novice here. At 3:23 there's a box in the bottom right corner of the screen. Is that from a parsing app? If so, which one and how do I set it up? Sorry if I'm asking about something really obvious here, but I really like how clear it looks and would like to try one out myself ;)

[@barsona]

The Advice @5:05 I had the opposite situation where my friend used his tank cooldowns and the healer was furious that he wasn't. Which is odd, because I can see in his icon that he is.

[@marslara]

sometimes when healing there are times when it feels like the tank no matter what you do is just taking an insane amount damage...it's usually due to gear but my guess is the healer wasn't actually sure if they were using cool downs and just decided to complain as if they were sure

[@koopakape]

"are you new to healing? New to FFXIV? Aww ok. *INSTANTLY DUMPS SPREADSHEET AFTER SPREADSHEET TELLING YOU ABOUT HOW YOU HAVE TO KNOW EVERY FIGHT IN THE GAME AHEAD OF TIME TO BE EFFECTIVE AND NEED YO HAVE EXACT ROTATIONS MEMORIZED FOR EVERY OCCASION AND POTENTIAL VARIANCE OF EVERY FIGHT* LOL I'm not even new and I'm completely overwhelmed 2 minutes in.

[@koopakape]

But I'm glad I stuck with it, there were some truly great tips like the slide casting stuff and reminding me to use Earthly Star more often

[@Terixofevermore]

As a tank, I will pull as small or as big as I need too. And in most cases I don’t pull large packs, because my job is to make sure we get the dungeon finished, we are not doing mythic plus dungeons. And if a sprout is in our group, I’m definitely not pulling big. They have a right to see how the dungeon is normally.

[@odinson4184]

Coward

[@jayr7613]

Wall to Wall pulling is something for higher end gaming, sprouts don't do this in the lower dungeons! It's NOT ok. Neither you as a tank, nor the healers have your toolkits to make this feasible. That being said you really should be able to do 3 packs of mobs easy enough. Just watch out for the first room in aurum vale lol. Take that one a bit slower because of the wandering adds

[@gahmoo]

I think it's more that ARR dungeons weren't designed with the idea that tanks were pulling until they couldn't, so in those dungeons there nothing is stopping you from grabbing dozens of mobs and running to the last boss for the most part. Somewhere towards the end of ARR, a notable shift was made in how dungeons were designed. Dungeons in Heavensward and beyond typically limit the amount of enemies you can pull to somewhere around 2-3 packs of enemies and they place a wall that disappears once those enemies are defeated. It's usually up to the tank or even healer/dps to assess the party and determine how much they should pull depending on the ilvl of party members and how well they perform, which is why tanks usually do a "trial pull" to gauge how many enemies they should be pulling. Big pack pulling is feasible in just about any dungeon in the game, though I completely agree that it's not for the inexperienced unless they have veeeery good reason to do so.

[@maybtday]

5:43 Triangle/(Y) On controller.

[@alex_g087]

So unfriendly interface for healing. Why I can’t switch of mana lines? Why hp so small?) it’s weird