seph x , healing questoins

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Originally Posted by Lyrica_Ashtine

Is it? Because I find it extremely boring to heal as astrologian. Even moreso as a white mage

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Originally Posted by Miyha

I just got to try SephEX for the first time last night.

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Originally Posted by Miyha

Was a fresh learning group...

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Originally Posted by Miyha

My initial judgment: this fight is a massive heal check.

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If it was still as easy/boring to heal your very first time through with a PF group of people who have never run it before (and four people who had never endgame raided before at all) at likely just barely cleared the ilvl req, then I'm happy for you~. You are obviously a more talented healer than I am, I will admit.

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Originally Posted by Miyha

If it was still as easy/boring to heal your very first time through with a PF group of people who have never run it before (and four people who had never endgame raided before at all) at likely just barely cleared the ilvl req, then I'm happy for you~. You are obviously a more talented healer than I am, I will admit.

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This is not a matter of talent, but more of the ability and effort spend to recognise patterns. Be it first entry or umpthteen entry. The fight is very slow paced with it's damage and it's not even that high. It's a lot of AoE healing, yes. But the incoming damage is pretty slow. If you're only chasing the facts after it already happened, then any fight is going to be hard to heal. In particular Sephirot Ex after the double john cena stomps: AoE damage happens > you start casting only after the AoE already happens -> You're gonna be late to prep up for the big hit -> you heal up the tank and be late to heal up the group for the next AoE damage -> You'll still need to top off the group for the marked AoEs
Or in other words: You're always steps behind. So analyze, anticipate, and control the fight. Don't let the fight control you

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Originally Posted by Lyrica_Ashtine

This is not a matter of talent, but more of the ability and effort spend to recognise patterns. Be it first entry or umpthteen entry. The fight is very slow paced with it's damage and it's not even that high. It's a lot of AoE healing, yes. But the incoming damage is pretty slow. If you're only chasing the facts after it already happened, then any fight is going to be hard to heal. In particular Sephirot Ex after the double john cena stomps: AoE damage happens > you start casting only after the AoE already happens -> You're gonna be late to prep up for the big hit -> you heal up the tank and be late to heal up the group for the next AoE damage -> You'll still need to top off the group for the marked AoEs
Or in other words: You're always steps behind. So analyze, anticipate, and control the fight. Don't let the fight control you

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Bolded part = I lol'd.

And I still consider that somewhat of a talent, if you can pick up on those things right away. ;; I'll admit, it takes me a few tries to pick up on things and figure out exactly what to do (though I still consider myself a fast learner, since it's not like I'll stay in the same place for like... days, or even hours, at a time). But I like that: "Control the fight. Don't let the fight control you." Something I've been trying to be better with in terms of precasting and gauging things (and something AS has helped a lot with, lol ;;; ), because I realize sometimes I do have a tendency to miss things and go into panic mode.;;

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Originally Posted by Miyha

My initial judgment: this fight is a massive heal check.

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Nah you're not wrong there. The healers on this thread who are acting a little cocky and calling in a light heal check are ignoring elements in encounter design. This fight requires about 4k heals per second to clear. To put that in perspective, that's the same HPS requirement for a3s. You could argue that everything's slow and scripted, but the same is true for a3s (esp last phase). Additionally this fight has several mechanics built in just to disrupt your rhtyhm and force you to heal on the move.

So don't get discouraged if you're a little overwhelmed by the heal timings at first. Healing this fight is all about being economical with movement and aggressively using swiftcast for heals assuming your sch can hande most raises.

Yeah, everything becomes boring to heal once you get your timings down, even when it's daunting at first. No news at all here, don't get discouraged.

I can understand the healing being boring statement though if you been around since the beginning with end-game content. The script isn't anything really new if you had to heal Titan Extreme back in the i90 days, or more recently A3S last phase like x6 splashes. It's extreme for a reason, and you don't outgear the content so of course for those with less end-game experience it's going to be more daunting initially.