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The Vault has always been known as a challenge for healers. Getting it at-level and most likely undergeared is going to be tough.

Also, are you keeping up with your quests from the astrologians' guild? Most of your skills are unlocked that way, so you'll be missing a lot by that level.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

The Vault has always been known as a challenge for healers. Getting it at-level and most likely undergeared is going to be tough.

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So i almost said something like this in my original reply. The Vault is a rough dungeon for starting healers. First, its at a point in the level range where if you havent been upgrading then your gear is going to be noticably worse then it should be(and youre still missing some important higher level skills). Second, a lot of the enemies hit hard(like, harder then you think they will). Third, the sub-bosses hit hard too(and have some semi-tricky mechs). And fourth, the final boss can wreck people who arent prepared. Hard hitting mechs, happening quickly, happening back to back, starting to overlap, happening all at once, SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED. And then fifth, story related spoilers i wont get into. Yeah, the Vault can be a lot the first time out. If you can get through that, youre good for awhile(Doma probly being the next tripping point for healers).

Like one big post at the beginning already said, play a Tank.

Start the tank from level 1 and do dungeons to level it.
Communicate with your group at the beginning and tell then that you are a new player and that it is your first time tanking the dungeon. The big majority will understand that and react positive towards you.

Some will tell you to take it easy and will try to help you and give advice.
Others will push you into the cold water and tell you to pull everything. (do it, laugh in case of a wipe and try again with less)
And again other will say nothing, so take your own speed.
But the most important thing is, take the friendly advice and critique to improve your tanking, they say that to you to help you.

Here's a few things I'd like to mention/ask:

1). Did you buy a full suit of Ironworks gear while you were Lv50? Though if you're 56 and at the Aery then this might not really apply to you, BUT, here pretty soon you should be arriving at Idyllshire and when you do.. buy the Lv60 Shire gear ASAP with the Tomestones of Poetics (run the 50/60/70, Trials, and Main Story roulettes to get these in large numbers). Even if you're not to the end of Heavensward quests yet and you end up being Lv61+, being Item-Level Capped helps loads in your dungeons and such armor lasts you through at least the Lv63 dungeon, and arguably the Lv65 one.

2). Just keep practicing the mechanics, and if you die and don't understand why, ask one of your group members why you died. There was probably some hidden mechanic you didn't see. The fight you mentioned, has a tether that's easy to miss.

3). If you do die, just pick yourself up and get back into the fray. It's frustrating at first, but you will learn and you'll get better. Heck, when I first started Eden's Verse, I used to get so frustrated, but now I can usually do the fights with only 1 or sometimes 0 deaths unless I really screw up bad. It just takes awhile of getting used to the dungeons and their mechanics.

Just keep trying, you'll get the hang of it. It also helps when the Tank isn't also a newbie. And I suggest getting into an FC and making friends with at least a tank so you two can Q together for new dungeons and he can explain stuff to you.

Also... making friends with a RDM is nice if you happen to be a healer at later levels. They get access to a Raise spell they can insta-cast as often as they want.

Hey, I had a few ironworks pieces but mostly everything was level 50. Maybe that was why I was doing so terribly in the instances. Thanks for the tips about getting better gear and the motivating tips to keep at it. Anyway, I did PotD on my astrologician and got the last few levels to level 60. He is now retired. Now, I am doing the diadem and leveling up some tradeskills. I reckon, I should be able to make my items once I get my tradeskills to 70. Sometimes, the marketplace doesn't have good items when you are leveling up.

A good idea for those issues that happened in the Vault with the tank wall pulling.. while the dungeon is starting.. type out a message for the tank..

Something like "Hey this is my first time here, can we do smaller pools so I can learn the dungeon?" Or something simular.. just let em know your new and would like smaller pools..

A good tank will understand an accommodate you on it.. a bad one well.. you just can't do anything about those kinda tanks..

Bonus tip: In regards to upgrading your gear. Your weapon is the MOST important piece of gear in determining how strong your heals are. Depending on what you have an upgrade could potentially be a large boost to how strong your heals, regens, shields AND damage spells are. When you can do more with less casts, keeping up with unexpected mechanics isnt quite as hard.

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Originally Posted by Frizze

Bonus tip: In regards to upgrading your gear. Your weapon is the MOST important piece of gear in determining how strong your heals are. Depending on what you have an upgrade could potentially be a large boost to how strong your heals, regens, shields AND damage spells are. When you can do more with less casts, keeping up with unexpected mechanics isnt quite as hard.

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couldnt agree more. Ive been in both scenarios. Had up to date gear, except my WHM weapon was i270 in kugane, and spamming cure2, with oGCDs weaved inbetween, and still struggle to out heal incoming dmg on the tank. But in the reverse, Id have a WHM weapon above the dungeon, but be MASSIVELY behind in gear, and have no trouble healing and throwing up DPS constantly as well.
Granted its much easier to do large pulls on AST and SCH, due to way more frequent oGCD healing, when the GCD isnt enough. So I never really needed updated weapons on those two. Just "generally" ok~ weapons.

i personally never needed to watch a guide for any dungeon/raid/trial and just went on intuition,but i AM AWARE,that this is most probably due to me having playing multiple mmo's in the past,i DO get hit by mechanics sometimes,as some mechanics arent that intuitive and require experience to know what to do,however "dying" shouldnt be taken as a stressful event,as you'll most likely be ressed,and even if you wipe,it will be a learning experience,unless you are going to do savage difficulty,i doubt you are going to have any troubles,gear can also be a big issue that can make you win or wipe,as is reckless players,like a tank taking entire rooms of monsters rather than a few at a time.

Sounds crazy but I always tell people play tank. Its the easiest role in the game for regular lvling content. You can face tank alot of mechanics and survive. You dont need to memorize alot of things because its the dpses job. You dont have to keep your butt alive as well as cover for others stepping on aoe like healers do and the queues are great.

Healer to me is the hardest because you are basically the backbone of the team that smooths over others mistakes by healing them through it. I dont really like healing at all since the potency/ dps nerf.