The main thing people need to realize is to ADJUST. - If OGCDs aren’t enough then start using GCDs. - If nobody needs healing then start doing damage. - If your outfit is awful, change it. This is the most important part of being an effective healer. Adjust to the situation. There is no all-encompassing strategy that will work best every time.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Glamour is truly the real endgame

One way to help with slide casting is to put any emote in your hot bar - when it lights back up you can move!

@SidMajors

2 жыл бұрын

This! You can be so greedy when you get a feel for it.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Wait that's a thing!? *takes notes*

@levimerck6181

2 жыл бұрын

That's really cool I never realized that

@JorgeMorales-es8gs

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know this! That's great to know even if you aren't healing!

@lyallatronpietro305

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I have the thumbs up emoji for this. Great for all casters. Lights up? Good to go.

Trusts helped with my healing anxiety while I was learning new healing jobs. Depending on the dungeon, you can force a wall to wall pull on your Tankred. He does use mitigation properly, but it evens out because the DPS output of the avatars is pretty bad so the pulls will take a while to burst down. It isn't a replacement for playing with real players, but it does allow you to get comfortable with your kit and wall to wall pulls without any potential toxicity. The confidence will lead to less mistakes when you do start queuing for those dungeons with real players (: I personally found that the biggest challenge to overcome was healing anxiety so any additional confidence was welcome!

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

This is actually a really good point! I didn't think about the value of trusts when learning healer but I can definitely see this being a good way about it :)

@dialp4penguin

2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is a great idea! I have huuuuge anxiety healing in higher level dungeons, I'm definitely going to do this to practice.

@PaulHofreiter

2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I’m doing. My daughter wanted to do Sage but she is young so I picked up the job just to get a basic understanding of it. Other than maining SCH back in 2.0 a looong time ago I was totally unfamiliar with healing, doubly so on controller. So I did trusts, and when I joined a party we wiped immediately and I felt terrible. I really wish there was a way to make the tank wall pull because while I can force two groups, maybe three by pulling myself it is a totally different feel then following the tank, shielding him as we go and dotting the enemies until we hit the wall. I feel a lot better about it now and feel like I’m starting to be a decent Sage but man would it be an easier learning experience if the trust could actually relocate what a healer will be dealing with, because starting out healing the tank one group at a time in no way prepared me for what that first real dungeon run would be like (probably didn’t help that it was the 73 dungeon when Sage feels a lot stronger at earlier and later levels imo). They could even make “learning trusts” if they’re concerned a wall pullling trust would replace real player groups, just give us something a bit more realistic.

@LolaLink

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulHofreiter Yeah, specifically you have to be careful, but you run ahead and aggro the pack and bring them back to Thancred. Throwing a shield on yourself while doing this helps because you don't want to get hit. But Thancred will grab the pack from you. It's a bit annoying (I'd rather him wall to wall pull rather than me pulling) but it's better practice than single mob pulls, and less anxiety inducing in groups. It ends up being a little more chaotic this way though, which helps for when randoms decide to pull on their own anyway 😅

@PaulHofreiter

2 жыл бұрын

@@LolaLink haha true, good practice for those chaotic runs. I did eventually end up doing that and luckily with Sage I can spam my shield when pulling back to thancred. Some dungeons worked better for it so I spammed those and it really did help get a grip on what my skill usage should be in real scenarios. I’m hoping maybe with the implementation of trusts through the entire game I bet the next patches that maybe they will include some sort of learning tools - older players might not need them but it could ease people into playing with other real people, which will be inevitable in some way or another.

One thing you forgot to mention (it happened a couple times to me already): if you use LB3 all dead partymembers will resurrect were they died. This is important. If they all died in the dead-wall, that many raid and trial bosses have nowadays, you're waisting your LB3, since they will all die instantly again. Also, though not quite as important anymore, keep LB3's spell range in mind: only those partymembers in reach will be resurrected. Though spell range of LB3 has been increased (Thank you, Diamond Weapon!! >.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Good point! I know the pain of raising inside a wall all too well :(

If I had to add any advice, if you feel frustrated by one healer try a different one. I tried out white mage and astro first and I struggled so hard esp as this was my first mmo. Picked up sch something just clicked and it is my main to this to day. Interestingly enough after I got good at Sch, all the other healers felt much easier. Oh and if you feel overwhelmed by trying to keep up your dps, healing, and mechanics it's okay to just focus on healing and mechanics until you get it down. If you try to stretch yourself to thin you'll do what my dumbass did in the beginning and tunnel vision. Usually on the wrong thing.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

This is good advice! Usually if someone is new to healing I would advice White Mage, but in your case it would seem scholar actually got you into healing! Maybe the next time someone asks me I'll have to ask them a few questions back to gauge what kinda healer would suit them!

@allenwalker8615

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV If it helps at all I think the best way I can put it is I felt like with white mage I was reacting. With Scholar their was a sense of pre planning. Pack coming up, you do a shield real quick, if things get too dicey you can do enough burst healing to get through it. Helped a bunch with healer anxiety cause I could overprepare if I felt I needed it. Most of the time I didn't but made me feel better and got me to start testing my comfort zones on how low someone could go before I could push em back up.

@rikkupendragon8372

9 ай бұрын

I'd like to add to this even though I am a year late. Sometimes it really is best to learn a fight as a dps if you find you are struggling hard as a healer. As a healer main, I did this with Rabanastre (first SB alliance raid). I tried learning as a healer first and I wasn't as experienced as I am now but once I learned it as dps, I did so much better when I healed cause all I had to do was just apply my toolkit to mechanic. I also had bad healer anxiety at the time then. Learning fights as a healer, especially in a newly released dungeon/raid where everyone is learning, can be very stressful because of the responsibility of keeping people alive through mechanics and mistakes. Once you know the mechanics and the rhythm of the fight, it will be easier to balance healing and dpsing. I started playing ffxiv as a healer first but I found it helpful to also level a dps on the side in case I needed a break from healing or to learn a fight if I couldn't learn as a healer. Anxiety and stress can hinder your learning curve. Especially if people are getting angry with you for not being able to keep up.

Not specifically for healers, but you can queue your ogcd at the very start of the cast and it will come out to the target you pressed on immediately after the cast is done. You can press it just once. No need to spam the ogcd at the end of the cast time. Or to spam it until it's cast. Just hit once and it will come out at the end of the cast. Example: Broil the boss > select ally and Lustrate at the very start of Broil's cast > go back to spamming Broil button on the boss. What will happen is that you character will immediately lustrate that ally after Broil is done casting. No need to change to an ally + use ogcd + change back in the span of 1 second or less.

@James-kv3ll

2 жыл бұрын

Good advice! Though the queuing can be inconsistent on consoles and with shoddy ping.

@GhostCry100

2 жыл бұрын

@@James-kv3ll I do have crap ping, and it helps a lot, because the message that I want to use an ogcd is sent earlier to the server. I've noticed that I clip a lot less when I use it earlier than using it at the last moment of the cast

@James-kv3ll

2 жыл бұрын

@@GhostCry100 Whatever works. Ping is funny because I’ve been able to slide cast super early with bad ping and my queuing is late with normal ping. Weird

It's so good to see you constantly growing and always delivering high quality content. Another awesome guide! I can't wait for melees

Currently playing healer for this savage tier. On white mage and astro. My best piece of advice is, dont take on all the responsibilities. You have a co healer. Divide that work between the two of you.

This is a criminally under appreciated channel! Great work bro.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate that, I think we are growing well though, just got to keep at it! :D

One handy tip that helped me with slide casting is put an emote button on its own hotbar. It will go grey while you are casting and then light back up, letting you know its okay to move.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

I saw another commenter mention this, honestly this blows my mind, I had no idea this was a thing and I've been playing for years!

@bradsmith8986

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV Yeah I just started playing myself and watching all kinds of content. I can't remember where I saw that tip but I thought it was pretty clever. Thanks to guides like yours, this game doesn't have as steep of a learning curve. Thank you!

Machinist is in such a bad place right now that I’ve taken up Sage as my “guy with guns” fix. Laser guns count. It’s now my primary Alt job when I’m not tanking and man is it perfect. It’s also deceptively easy, I recommend it for new healers. Especially people who play on controller like me.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

WHM and SGE are honestly super comfy healers to play

@blackbirdmenagerie

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV ngl I had a harder time picking up sage than I expected, astro came basically completely naturally to me. But oh man the first few days on sage were really rough, had some really patient tanks.

2:30 why do most healers do this? They let the tank's HP drop so low under 5% the tank freaked out and used their invul. simple Regen would stopped that. I let tank HP drop to about 50% to 70% but not _that_ low.

ive been struggling to match the skill gap of the new expansion with higher-end healing but this really eased me out and helped a lot thank you!!

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome! I'm glad the video helped you in some way :)

I’m a healer main doing savage content and keeping lucid dreaming on cooldown is a must if you are going to play white mage.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Good point! WHM really has some dodgy MP management

@redgeoblaze3752

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV Same with Scholar, especially if you've got a janky group that eats all your aetherflow.

Something I’ve learned as a sage progging savage. You will very rarely, if ever, use your gcd heals. Euk. Prog and Diag. You want to focus on your mitigation and your regens and let your pure healer worry about bursting. Also, once you start learning how a fight works, you don’t need to top everyone off immediately. I used to be guilty of this, but if you know that there won’t be any raidwide damage for the next 30 seconds, you don’t need to heal everyone to full. Get your damage in, and worry about the incoming damage when it comes around.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah GCD heals are honestly a last resort or only used when needed, otherwise DPS away and heal with the oGCDs! :)

@Dw7freak

2 жыл бұрын

Except that Euk Prog and Diag are part of your mitigation. You aren't suppose to be using those, or SCH's Adlo/Succor, for healing unless you're topping the party off, but for helping your party survive. The less damage taken, the less damage you need to heal. And shields stack very well with percentage based mitigation. Even then, both classes have an ogcd that turns their shields into powerful heals.

Always remember that your first job is to keep the party alive, nothing more and nothing less :) As you become more experienced that implies that you decide where your party uses their mitigation. You're the one who deals with the aftermath after all. So unless you're leaving it to a more experienced player don't be afraid to ask someone to use their mitigation differently if it helps you with keeping the party alive or if it reduces the overall amount of healing required (as that results in more damage, too).

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely agree here!

Wonderful guide as always. These small things are very important to keep in mind while you are healing. But what I like the most - message that you should be comfortable in your role. Random team can differ a lot from time to time so if you can't keep up with one it doesn't mean that it's your fault, don't let it discourage you! Wall to wall pulls can be annoying if dps is low and it takes too long, or tank keeps dragging mobs around not letting aoe hit everyone properly. Or you can fat finger something you shouldn't. It all can happen but hey, that's what makes everything fun~ Just get up, laugh and keep going!

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely agree here! Not everything will work out accordingly and if it did, that would get boring, so I'm glad different situations like this happens, makes the game feel more fresh! As much as I am a champion for optimal play. I had a dungeon run yesterday and we actually had a bit of a struggle on Vanaspati, took us about 30+ minutes, but I actually had fun, explaining the mechanics to the people who didn't know and it was just a chill run and everyone was understanding of the situation, wasn't efficient, but it was fun and we had a laugh!

Helpful as always. Especially as someone that plays healer casually. The tips definitely help

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Glad they help! Healing can be a seriously satisfying role to play :)

@nekronik

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV it really is. I have spent most of my time as dps but I have definitely been playing around more with healers and tanks

It’s okay to overheal if you’re not comfortable with a fight. Use low cooldown OGCD’s first and spread the long ones over both pulls. Stand still at the first mob if you don’t want to wall-to-wall pull. Keep running if you do want that. Use instacasts while you’re running towards the end of the pull. Be it shields, regens and dots. If you get even more comfi, do a swiftcast>adlo.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely is okay to overheal, I don't think anybody can get away with no overheal, that is a challenge in of itself xD

@SidMajors

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV Definitely!

This channel doesn’t have nearly enough subscribers for the quality of the content! Keep up the great work!

@SaltyDitchDr1275

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree, glad I found this channel

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you guys, appreciate it! We're still building it up :D

Excuse me sir, you forgot to mention the effectiveness of cure and free cure… but in all seriousness, great video once again! Looking forward to the next one.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Best trait in the game. And thank you :)

I love your sage footage- i don’t know why it it never occurred to me to spam insta-aoe on the move during trash pulls. Thank you! Is there a threshold to keep in mind, like three or more enemies, when the aoe out paces the dots? Or is it sage specific because of the small additional recast of eukrasia?

@James-kv3ll

2 жыл бұрын

Sage AoE is best for 2 or more enemies. Personally I only put my DoT up on the big dangerous enemies and only whilst the tank is grouping up the entire pull. Also use this time to throw a shield on the tank for a Toxicon proc, big damage. Once everything is grouped together just spam your AoE and weave OGCDs to heal, you should be fine.

@markruiz6722

2 жыл бұрын

@@James-kv3ll i always feel like the set up cost for toxicon is so high, but that makes a lot of sense

@James-kv3ll

2 жыл бұрын

@@markruiz6722 Toxicon is your second highest damaging attack in AoE right behind Nuema and it’s free. Any time you can guarantee yourself a stack of addersting to use Toxicon you should try to do so, as long as group healing isn’t needed and it won’t cause overhealing. Tank busters are great for this.

I don't know where to ask but in situations where as a White Mage, my tank uses invuln for a dungeon pull; what should I be doing during the invuln time? Because using holy feels wasteful

If i use limit break is only my limit break or does it count as a group limit break and no one can use it after i use it?

12:55 eh, i'm running astro and so i'm only really popping it 5-6km and even then it's more of a suggestion bc of how many times i'm drawing cards/using 2/3 seal astrodyne.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

This is true, I guess this really does depend on healer! But I don't think my suggestion is awful until you get that understanding for yourself

I only use rescue when a party member is trying to avoid aoe and isn't going to make it (large, hard hitting aoes that would normally drain half hp or one shot kill) or in alliance raids when they need to be with our party for individual alliance adds or mechanic. Especially if it's a alliance stack marker where all three alliances have their own stack marker. I also tend to keep lucid dreaming on cooldown. Between healing and dpsing, I always go through a lot of mana so I don't need to worry about overcapping. I do the same with Assize. If I don't need it for healing right away but it is up, I will pop it for extra damage. If I know a raid wide aoe is going to go off, I'll hold it for that so it can heal and do damage. Either way, it always benefits because there always seems to be at least one or two people who messed up and got hit by avoidable aoe lol.

My melee dps friend and I love Rescue. If a mechanic requires us to move far away from the boss, I'll let him go ham on the boss instead of wasting time running. Then when it's time I'll pull him. Good for his uptime if his other movement tools are on CD.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! its such a good skill

12:55 toxic healer main here to crack you (kappa): what you said is totally fine. the only times i had to watch my lucid timing when i was running a no piety super optimised build in shb. if you have a normal build from the balance, you can just use it once you get under 8k or 7k mp and on cd from then on and it will be fine. especially with the current healer's insane mp generation (not whm, but it still doesn't matter that much for whm if u run a normal build). even in ultimates: i never had problems with mp running a normal piety build. only when i started minmaxing piety, the lucid timing started to matter. and if you do that, you know what you are doing anyway (i hope)

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you approve healer senpai main

@SaltyDitchDr1275

2 жыл бұрын

I just align and use lucid dreaming on cool down during my 2nd and then every even bio cast on scholar. Works out great.

a more clear and concise way to highlight the difference between pure and barrier healers: pure healers focus on healing damage after it's been dealt, while barrier healers usually prevent the damage from happening

So when I switch jobs my skill setup doesn't change automatically. Is this a settings configuration or is my account perma glitched?

@argumentalist

Жыл бұрын

Since it's been two months I presume you'll already have your answer, but just in case: System > Character configuration > Hotbar settings > Sharing tab

@Wanderingsage7

Жыл бұрын

@@argumentalist thank you! Yeah, it took me a bit and a few videos to figure it out:)

I think that one thing that you forgot to bring up was peppering DoTs on mobs during pulls.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Very good point!

One thing that a lot of healers are scared of is overhealing. For the shield healers, this isn't something you should worry about, as your shields still get their full size when overhealing. As such, even if the party if full health, don't be afraid to use your shield healing spells to help mitigate raid wides and raid busters. There are even some raid busters that, if not properly mitigated, will just kill everyone. Remember, mitigation is just less damage you have to heal. Also, if someone gets hit by a mechanic and all your ogcd healing is on cooldown, throw a gcd heal, even if it's just a regen. While ogcd healing is what most savage players preach, you still need to use gcd healing. And while they say your party doesn't need to be fully healed for every mechanic, at least get your party to 80-90% health with a regen on them. It's less stressful for everyone, especially if anyone has a vulnerability stack.

I miss the days of Astro being able to swap

What glamour is that?

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

The intro glamour? Its actually a tank glam. The chest is the current savage raid tier from the last fight. The headpiece is the demonic horns from cash shop, part of the demonic set. The earrings are a pre-order bonus from Heavensward. The hands are the Far Eastern Noble Armlets, also from the cash shop. The legs are 2b leggings from the first nier raid and the boots are the tank boots from the last nier raid. The healing outfit is just the full set of Moonward gear, which you can get when you reach level 90 and it can be bought with the non lockout tomes. Hope this helps! :)

@knot1526

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV Thanks

"Tanks are using their mitigation cooldown and have good gear on" .. under level 50 content tanks are oblivious to mitigation and gear is 20 levels below content ... rescue sucks ... count begin to count the amount of time some healer screwed my rotation with that damn skill for no good reason when tanking or dpsing

Acronyms...

YOooooooOo

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

YooooO

AAH my only weakness, Really cute dragon girls booping my snoot > Literally no joke i have the play dead emote specifically if a cute dragon girl or cat girl boops my snoot

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Don't replay it too much then, for your own health!

@YateriaKurosawa

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV ah don't worry I've only had it on repeat for 6 hours now 😂😂😂

Some of this info is kinda bad. Like the esuna section - by and large you DON'T cleanse things as a healer, dooms are far rarer than simple poisons which make up the bulk of cleansable debuffs you see. There's zero reason to cleanse a dot. Gotta be knowledgeable before teaching others friendo.