Tips for Healing in CT

[Lyrinn]

Because I'm really, really tired of watching healers faceplant into the floor for stupid reasons. I'll admit that solo healing CT is a lot more entertaining than using Medica II and afking for 30 seconds, but come on, a lot of this stuff is basic and not difficult.


Valefor's Tail Swipe can be Esuna/Leeched.
Should the tanks be positioning them properly? Yes, but in the event that you have a troll or one of the tanks is just outright bad, immediately Esuna as many people as you can save, top yourself off quickly, and then heal everyone else back up. You have no excuse to be dying to the DoT, and stop trying to power heal through it.

Bone Dragon applies Disease shortly after pull and it can be Esuna/Leeched.
It's amazing and sad how many people leave disease up on the MT. You can power heal through it but why bother? Stop being lazy.

Stop spamming Medica II.
This is for the WHMs. You only need to Medica II once and then Medica once more if needed (it usually isn't). In particular, do not Medica II right before the eyes on bone dragon or the iron giant on Acheron spawn.

One healer can DPS on Atomos.
You really don't need two healers for this. One dedicated healer or two half-heal, half-DPS healers is more than enough. Alternate Regen/Adloquium/Stoneskin and you're good to go.

Magic Pot at Thanatos can be full healed with just two Lustrates.
This is for the SCHs. If, for whatever reason, you neglect to heal your pot normally, then you can double Lustrate it to break the tether. If you have a SCH in your party and your pot gets chained all the way to Thanatos, that SCH is bad and should feel bad.

Behemoth (A): Don't stand near the comets when the Iron Giant is up.
The comets will periodically explode and burn anyone nearby. Don't take unnecessary damage, please.

Behemoth (B): Comet Burn can be Esuna/Leeched.
Same deal as with Valefor's Tail Swipe. You have no excuse to be dying to the DoT, which shouldn't be on you to begin with.

Virus Acheron at the start of each phase.
His first few attacks seem to chunk hard. Be prepared for that damage, especially if the tank isn't well geared. After those few hits, the rest of Acheron's attacks are weak and he spends half the time channeling anyways.

(WHM Holy and then) step off the platform after Ancient Flare goes off.
You can stun the giant, and then run out of the way in case your tanks don't turn the Iron Giant to avoid the cleave.

Acheron always uses Quake after Megiddo Flame and Quake III after Moonfall Slash.
Pre-cast your Medica/Medica II/Succors please. People shouldn't be dying to the hands because they got grabbed at 500 hp because you took 5 seconds to react.



Valefor's Confusion and Comet Burn are the two that annoy me the most. So many healers just sit there trying to heal through it and let everyone else die when all it takes is a few Esuna/Leeches to save everyone.

Please keep your Magic Pots Focus Targeted so you can help out if the other healer is otherwise occupied.

To add to this, you can focus target Acheron as well to see which attack is coming up - it's useful even outside of CT (e.g. Hydra). You can also FT your MT or OT if your party isn't doing anything big (e.g. Bone Dragon, Behemoth if both your tanks are on towers).

If you're an Scholar -- keep shadowflare down on behemoth 100% of the time. There probably isn't a summoner doing it and he's one of the few bosses in the games that can be affected by slow (there are other crystal tower bosses too, but behemoth is the most important one for this as tanks really don't die on other fights.)

[Hysterior]

I like using medica 2 in fights like behemoth, bomb, archeon because i can then go full dps. Dont remember ever getting big aggro problem nor oom

[Lyrinn]

I like using medica 2 in fights like behemoth, bomb, archeon because i can then go full dps. Dont remember ever getting big aggro problem nor oom

Medica II by itself is fine. Spamming Medica II when you just applied the AoE regen is stupid. I swear half the WHMs I get stuck with don't even have Medica on their skillbars.

If the tanks are good, they'll pick up the adds quickly Medica II or not, but that's leaving a lot to chance and makes things unnecessarily more difficult for the tanks. It's just bad practice. Don't even get me started on the WHMs that use Medica II right before a pull as if they're SCHs.

[Hysterior]

Also, full dps during atomos. Dont stay there waiting for damage to heal.

[synesthetic]

Behemoth (A): Don't stand near the comets when the Iron Giant is up.
The comets will periodically explode and burn anyone nearby. Don't take unnecessary damage, please.

Yes, please.

I don't think it's strictly periodic though. I think what happens is that Iron Giant has a ranged attack, and it's when that attack hits a comet that there's AoE damage+burn.


Regarding not casting Medica 2, I don't have an issue with that. OTs who are bad at pulling are going to be bad at pulling. Good tanks can pull adds off of you before you're even touched, regardless of whether or not you're the first to pull aggro with a HoT. This applies to any fight I've seen, so far.

[Cosmoswan]

I've take time to understand that you can heal and raise others teams via the alliance menu , and it's really the best thing i've managed to , so to upgrade the chance of survie ^^ .
And Yeah on atomos just cast regen an full dps on adds, i love this boss.
On behemot ,just cast regen on towers tanks ,hop medica 2(^^) and switch dps . (then recast regen, also on mt/ot if need , dps again , hide, med 2 , etc.. )

[Nailkita]

On the Thantos thing, I usually handle it fine with lustrates, but it seems lately tanks have been pulling thantos over to one side beside Pot A, and good lord, if the pot is next to thantos please help, I burned through 6 lustrates and was stuck spamming adolquium/physic to try and save it and received no help from the other healer.

Please keep your Magic Pots Focus Targeted so you can help out if the other healer is otherwise occupied. Lately it seems like tanks are ignoring the adds leaving them on healers, and the pots are dying more often, the last 2 weeks of CT I'm amazed thantos gets downed as there's usually only my team's pot left alive and then just barely.

[SulwynCaliope]

Please keep your Magic Pots Focus Targeted so you can help out if the other healer is otherwise occupied. Lately it seems like tanks are ignoring the adds leaving them on healers, and the pots are dying more often, the last 2 weeks of CT I'm amazed thanatos gets downed as there's usually only my team's pot left alive and then just barely.

This exactly. I've actually stopped healing my party for the most part during Thanatos now and usually leave it up to the other healer to handle because I know that pots are going to die otherwise. I just run marathons around the outside ring of the stage to make sure none of the pots are dead yet. Sometimes I see nearly dead pots hanging out right beside thana and no heals are dropping on it and i feel like facepalming. I know you need to heal your team but you shouldn't be ignoring basic fight mechanics in the mean time. ><

[Lyrinn]

Please keep your Magic Pots Focus Targeted so you can help out if the other healer is otherwise occupied. Lately it seems like tanks are ignoring the adds leaving them on healers, and the pots are dying more often, the last 2 weeks of CT I'm amazed thantos gets downed as there's usually only my team's pot left alive and then just barely.

That's a good one. I forgot to list it because I focus target everything so it's second nature to me. I'll add it to the list if you don't mind.

[Hulan]

This one hardly even bares mentioning, but as a SCH you can bump up your damage by a fair amount in Atomos (which saves the tank almost as much trouble as healing does) by placing your fairly about 3/4ths of the way toward Atomos. She doesn't need to be on the platform, so why leave her there? You can then micro her, or just leave her on auto (she'll pick up the piddling damage your damage dealers are taking even on auto and even keep the tank up without any outside help in my experience) and focus more on taking down the adds with the rest of the back group.