
Originally Posted by
Ophannus
This is a technique that not many Dragoons know about or employ when soloing with a mage or hybrid sub. Just equip copious amounts of HP gear in your healing breath trigger macro with a /wait 0.3-0.5 after it equips. With the right amount of HP gear you can overclock the HP % relative to your normal fighting gear at which Healing Breath activates.
For example:
With regular TP/Haste/Solo gear my Hume DRG/RDM has ~1740 HP.
With the following gear I get +630HP:
Ocean Sash
Dusk Trousers +1
Marine M Boots
Wave Gages
Meridian Ring
Bomb Queen Ring
Ardor Pendant
Bloodgem Earring
Cassie Earring
Drachen Armet +1
Wyrm Mail +2
Strendu Mantle
Egoist's Tathlum
1770HP + 630 HP= 2400 HP.
This means it will allow me to execute Healing Breath if my current HP is at or below 1200. Since my normal TP fighting gear has me at around 1770 max HP, I'd normally be able to use Healing Breath by casting a spell at 50% of that with /mage or 885, or at 33% of that with a hybrid subjob or 584 HP. But since I'm adding +630HP to my gear along with Drachen Armet +1, my max HP is boosted to 2400 so I can then execute a Healing Breath at 1200 which is around 68% of 1700 or at 792 which is about 45% of 1770. So with this method you can activate Healing Breath at a much higher threshold than without it, just make sure you macro into Wyvern HP gear and other healing breath enhancing equipment just as the breath activates!
For even more fun, do this in Abyssea where you can have 3500+ HP just from cruor buffs, with the gear you can achieve 4000 HP and acticate healing breaths at 2,000ish HP. If you have decent healing breath gear and you get the EXP bonus from your wyvern, you can activate healing breath at 2,000 HP and get a 1,000 healing breath which brings you near full HP. As long as a mob cannot 1 shot you from 2k HP(which most cannot!) you're basically unkillable because you're healing breath threshold will be 2,000 HP! Dragoon can easily solo most NMs in Abyssea(mostly the ones that don't use doom/death/petrify/amnesia/mute aura