Healer Limit Breaks

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Originally Posted by Kietsu

Really? In my experience, in situations where I could have saved the fight with an LB3, I can't, because a DPS (usually a MNK for whatever reason) blew the load as soon as the meter filled.

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That makes me want to punch a wall. In a fight with 40% left on boss, one Tank one Healer and one DPS down. If something goes wrong I might have to use LB3 to save the run. Try raising the other Healer then work on getting the DPS up because it's a SMN and could have with raising where needed and during that process some melee sees the LB bar fill and uses it instantly then dies because they got hit and couldn't move while the other Healer also goes down again. And everything goes downhill and party wipes.

I don't like having to tell people when to use a LB but I wish more DPS had the common sense to read the fight before they pull the trigger on it. It should be used to boost DPS when a fight looks a kill over used as soon as it's available.

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Originally Posted by Kietsu

Really? In my experience, in situations where I could have saved the fight with an LB3, I can't, because a DPS (usually a MNK for whatever reason) blew the load as soon as the meter filled.

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My example situations were mostly dungeons, ST, and WoD. I think it was one of the HW dungeons where the boss was near dead, we had a LB and we wiped--I see people afraid to use their LB all the time, especially melee who don't realize we've been doing a full clear and will have LBs for every boss including 2bar on final, so they don't touch LB until last boss.

WoDs Hydra fight; other two parties had nearly wiped, our party was all up but with heat wave or whatever the mechanic is, we were all near death and dropping, my BRD LB picked up the party, healers were able to sustain us from there and start rezing other healers.

I wish each class had a separate limit break they could use based off their own individual limit break bar that didn't effect the group limit break bar.

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Originally Posted by AlexanderThorolund

I wish each class had a separate limit break they could use based off their own individual limit break bar that didn't effect the group limit break bar.

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do you have any idea how op that would be... imagine 4 dps using LB3 at the same time the poor boss monster would be ripped to shreds...

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Originally Posted by Kerrigen

I just wish they removed the stupid amount of animation lock (on all 3 of them) because it'll get you killed very often.

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I have never not died when doing an LB3 as healer. The animation lock is so long and usually if I'm required to LB3 most of the party is dead... which leads to everything targeted at me.

I really wish SE would give everyone their own LB bar (that still only fills in group) and balance them accordingly.

That would be sweet if everyone got their own separate limit break bar. Doesn't have to be some hardcore damage dealing type thing, even just some buff for the party. Like for example when a Healers LB is full, it does some kind of 15 or 20 second super Protect or Shell type thing on the party. Or for DPS it boosts damage dealt by 15% type thing. Would be hard to balance it of course so that it's not TOO powerful, but something along those lines.

I never want to have to use LB as a healer, it did save a run yesterday though.

My problem with it as well is because it's pretty much only used by DPS, there's so many times that it just doesn't get used. Like I was in one one time, the other healer the only person left and LB3 fully charged but they didn't use it. Same with another time, had the boss down to like 3% HP in just some hard mode primal, somehow everyone had wiped except a BLM and LB3 was fully charged. Instead they just kept casting Fire and got killed. Because it's so specific on who gets to use it I find that many times people like myself aren't even paying attention to it since it's so rare we'd use it.

Got to use the Astro LB3 two nights ago for the 1st time, and it looks AWESOME