I know this isn't WoW but is there a healbot type option for healers?

You target the player and heal them... just like in old school WoW, OP. I played WoW since vanilla, then on and off since. between patches/new expansions. BFA bored me, so I came back to FFXIV, fyi.

Mods aren't really supported by SE, and good riddance, with regards to certain ones.... you can probably guess which I mean. While I do miss certain things about WoW, this isn't one of them, and it's completely unnecessary, anyway. It honestly just spoils you, I found, and you rely on it so much you forget how to function without it. Healing without a Healbot equivalent really isn't required.

(No, this is not meant as an attack, OP, I genuinely think this, as someone who has healed in mmos for 15+ years.

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Originally Posted by Yamr3

As far as I know, there's no addons for FF14 nor allowed. I'm coming from WoW too.... Well I still play WoW, just don't care for it that much. Play it enough to keep myself ahead between Heroic / Mythic geared.

As for how to heal, the best way, is trial and error. If you're shy about it, grab a friend and duo queue some Trials and Alliance Raids. Ask about what they start for rotations. In a nutshell and in general for WHM:

- Keep Medica II up when you know consistent damage is coming. (I recast it when there's 5 seconds left on the hot)
- Use Divine Benison on the tank when you know big damage is coming, to help mitigate it
- Cure III is extremely niche and specific situations to heal with it. Only use it when the group is stacking and needed
- Cure II is one of the main heals you'll do consistently on tanks or to top off folks
- Cure I use for minor damage and / or to get the free cast for Cure II

White Mage in a nutshell, there's more to it learning and what to do for reacting but I hope that leads you somewhere.

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Hm, Cure I is useful now? I remember not even needing it on my bars during SB...

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Originally Posted by Mirhd

You target the player and heal them... just like in old school WoW, OP. I played WoW since vanilla, then on and off since. between patches/new expansions. BFA bored me, so I came back to FFXIV, fyi.

Mods aren't really supported by SE, and good riddance, with regards to certain ones.... you can probably guess which I mean. While I do miss certain things about WoW, this isn't one of them, and it's completely unnecessary, anyway. It honestly just spoils you, I found, and you rely on it so much you forget how to function without it. Healing without a Healbot equivalent really isn't required.

(No, this is not meant as an attack, OP, I genuinely think this, as someone who has healed in mmos for 15+ years.

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Didn't take it as an attack. But I would say that in WoW when things get nasty it would be impossible to be a clicker and keep everyone alive. I do not see how you could do it. IMO anyway...I mean even with healbot it sometimes got really difficult.
I have not healed in this game so I have nothing to go off of.

You can create mouseover macros for healing but I do not advise it because the macro system does not work with spell queueing in this game.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Hm, Cure I is useful now? I remember not even needing it on my bars during SB...

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Cure I is useful, in my opinion, to get the free cast for Cure II. Besides that, it's only good for keeping a target topped off, when lots of hits happen at the same time, without using more MP from Cure II. At least, from my observation and playing so far, this is where it's most optimal at. If you don't use it, then that time is better spent DPS-ing, if nothing needs Cure I.

Mouseover macros for heals are one of the few exceptions I consider viable for combat macros, due to the above mentioned delay inherent in macros. However, there’s also delay in manually swapping targets.
/ac “Divine Benison” <mo>
Is an example of the simplest macro to cast a spell on your mouseover target (works on party member bars as well as the 3d models in the game world).

Also, since I’m seeing a lot of other healing advice in this thread, a word of warning.
FFXIV is not like WoW where healers fill a majority of their GCDs with heals. Incoming damage in this game is low from autoattacks, predictable and scripted from hard hitting attacks, and overall well lower than the intense power of heals. Casting one Regen takes care of autoattack damage for its duration, even from raid bosses.

At the early levels when you don’t have many tools, you’ll be using Cure and Cure II as mainline heals simply because you have nothing else, but you’re also going to notice a lot of time when no one, even the tank, is taking real damage. Overhealing in FFXIV is just as wasteful as it is in WoW. Expect to spend a minimum of 50% of your GCDs on offensive spells. There’s also no 5 second rule like old WoW for MP regen when idle, so there’s no need to pause to get MP regen going.

At later levels when you have access to a suite of off-GCD heals like Tetragrammaton, Benediction, and the like, these will become your baseline heals. Slowly start backing out of casting Cure IIs (by this point you may be starting to notice the Cure I just isn’t time-efficient and you’re not running out of MP anyway). Once you get used to it, you’ll find that Cure II is your panic button and the “cooldown” heals are what you regularly use. This is a normal part of XIV and is true in the highest level dungeons as well as normal, savage, and ultimate raids.

In regards to the OP. Healing is the tank is 90% of the job requirement. In 4 man content it's possible to never need to heal the dps with dodging and doing mechanics as intended. The better the group the less GCD healing is needed and more time dps as a healer. Healing isn't usually the majority of healers time. Especially in older content.

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Originally Posted by OhnoozeMyToes

I usually tank or DPS and I have only been playing a few months so please forgive my ignorance.

I have never played a healer in FFXIV but I'm considering it. But I'm not sure how to go about it.

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While no addons exist for FFXIV, I have found that healing using mouseover macros set up on a hidden action bar and all the spells keybound, works best for me. It improves my reaction time since I dont have to change targets and can just hover over the person that needs healing in the party list and press the appropriate keybind (I have cure bound to shift-middle click and cure II bound to shift-thumb button for example).

Nope, gotta heal the old fashion way, but the combat isn't sporadic and hyperactive to accommodate for add-ons which is what wow does.

It's more meaningful and slower. I'm glad for it. The healing whack a mole playstyle in wow is way over done.

multi button mouse and assign those keybinds with a mouseover macro to a separate bar? add shift/alt/ctrl to mouse 3,4,5 etc...