Trust Dungeons as a Healer are the worst

I really like Trust system because for once it allows us to know the mechanics of every fight without the pressure of an actual group. Heck, you just need to look what the others are doing to figure out where to stand, or what to do. It's also a good practice for people that never tanked before.

Though yes, it needs adjustments:
1) Make DPS aoe trash packs. Maybe if you start AoEing, they can change their attack patterns to AoE's as well, or maybe have Y'shtola being someone more inclined to AoE, since they like to give uniqueness to them.

2) I would just scale their levels with your character, but since they were so keen to have "Trust Leveling" as an actual mechanic, they got to make them level fast. It's absurdly slow as of the moment.

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Originally Posted by Halivel

As for Trust... didn't check it as healer yet, so can't say. What I can say though is that Alphinaud and Urainger heal me better than 90% of non-AI healers.

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On the other hand, DPSs are quite accurate. They don't focus the tank's target.

Playing as a tank and for the most part trusts are fine. Can't really pull wall to wall with them, but I've had worse parties with actual people in them so they get my thumbs up.

I enjoy trusts.

I did run one as a healer and it was really bad and slow, but also because I took Y'shtola who is the worst trust DPS in my experience.

I can do trust dungeons in about 25 minutes on SMN along with Mini-filia (she has trick attack) and Alphinaud who I think gives a damage up buff quite frequently. At least I think it's him because I never see that buff when I take Urianger.

I tryed them with healer, tank and dps and decided to use only dps and tanks for trust-leveling.
Since you also have only 1 Tank and 3 dps but 2 healers it´s also the most effective way to get them all to 80.

It's not to bad if you pull larger groups as the healer, Thancred will come to you and grab them, then you can all go ham with aoe. Thancred does baby pulls and the npcs single target dps seems pretty tame for the most part. I will say Boss fights do seem to take forever, but the wall to wall pulls are at least relatively normal.

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Originally Posted by Nedkel

Very good.
Kill that mode with fire! It should be for first time runners, not to spam them.

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I don't understand what you have against it

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Originally Posted by icrot

On the other hand, DPSs are quite accurate. They don't focus the tank's target.

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And also don't use AoEs. /sigh/

As a tank I'd say ....40% of my people runs left me thinking "I should have just done a trust run".

Be it Healers letting me die in big pull resulting in me having to do small pulls there after to healers/ dps eating boss mechanics and having us all die after the healer dies.

I've found that the max I can push trust is 2 mob groups at once. But yeah, them having reliable DPS and knowing how to handle everything the boss tosses at them makes them better than a sizable amount of players so far as I've seen.

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Originally Posted by kidalutz

in the live letter they literally said Trusts would be slower than regulars.

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Which is fine. If trusts were as fast as normal groups, nobody would queue for the duty finder.

I wasn't expecting it to be so dull, though, especially as a healer who rarely needs to heal due to the trust tank being able to self heal whenever he wants. I just put on a dot on every enemy, then spam either my one single Target or one AoE until the thing's die. I ended up eventually just starting a battle, then backing off and working on my macros, 'cause the party literally can't die unless you pull more mobs and there's no reason to pull more mobs 'cause they all single target anyway.

I only heal during bosses and that's only because some of the trust's AI are literally built to fail at dodging certain AoEs so that there's something to do.