Have you been enjoying healing in Dawntrail Dungeons & Trials?

I'm curious to know if people have been enjoying Dawntrail Dungeons & Trials as a healer. I've just completely the expansion, trials and dungeons and I've got to admit, I've never enjoyed playing Final Fantasy as much as I did this expansion. Almost every dungeon boss and trial has been a complete joy.

I think its a mixture of people not being perfect with the mechanics already so its making things so much enjoyable as a whole, also the bosses just seem a whole lot more fun than many of the others I've come across. I'm really excited to start doing the extremes and raids if they are even half as enjoyable as what I've seen so far.

I enjoyed healing Origenics which is the closest I’ve got to endgame. I was genuinely surprised at the amount I had to heal, but I also can’t help but wonder how much of that was the result of Ilvl as opposed to the dungeon itself. I hope the later dungeons have the same level of challenge, at least for as long as they can until everyone’s ilvl starts to max lol

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Originally Posted by Connor

I enjoyed healing Origenics which is the closest I’ve got to endgame. I was genuinely surprised at the amount I had to heal, but I also can’t help but wonder how much of that was the result of Ilvl as opposed to the dungeon itself. I hope the later dungeons have the same level of challenge, at least for as long as they can until everyone’s ilvl starts to max lol

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The level 100 dungeons were by far the most fun and the party I was with said the same, so I think you've got some challenge left still!

The only dungeon I haven't done is the last one but if anything this expansion has proven to me that I am bored healing dungeons. Honestly found myself spamming 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1. Maybe I just got good groups. But it just makes me want to DPS instead.

The first weeks of inexperienced players are really the best moment to play healer. It's a shame this wont last. Dungeons have a lot of frantic avoidable damage that comes really fast and hits really hard. Saving inexperienced players never felt more satisfying. Unfortunately this won't last long and we'll be back to nukespamming soon enough.

There is some increase in overall unavoidable damage in certain parts , so that's...okay I guess. I really haven't found that I have to heal much more often beyond the occasional oGCD flung at mister "3 vuln stacks" over there.

Yes honestly, at the moment I'm not upset at the AST rework. DPS skills have been worked into the healing kit in a way that works for me, I'm unsure about the buffs but Ewer and Spire are great in 4 man content. I really think they still need to have a think on cards. I also really want a stun or at least damage when casting collective unconsciousness.

Feels pretty bad. I played through the MSQ as Astrologian and... It sucked. It really did. I caused so many wipes because I literally could not fail a mechanic without dying- unlike shield healers who can just bubble up and survive. Damage comes so fast and there's so much to dodge that the delayed or otherwise regenerative healing of Astro was a miserable experience. I was having to overheal so much just because the regen wouldn't catch up in time to the next mechanic. Celestial Opposition, Collective Unconscious, and Helios Conjunction just weren't enough. Celestial opposition feels so worthless now, because regen is worthless. Collective Unconscious is still worthless, as there aren't too many group markers during the content this time around (and the few that are there are multi-hit ones that happen fast enough to plow through whatever regen you apply). Astros really got boned this time around- and not just because of their unimaginative and pointless card rework.

Sage felt great to play, being super mobile and having so many tools available. The shields kept people from dying pretty consistently. Combine that with actually being able to deal damage, and it felt okay. Scholar can just spreadlo and ignore a lot of things- or just become a walking god and spam Accession. Scholar is clearly the best healer around- still. White Mage got more damage, and then a better Neutral Sect/Sun Sign through their Temperance/Divine Caress interaction.

And yet Astro was the one that received the rework into a literally worse version of everything.

Oh, and the Mighty Cactaur (?) I had such a hard time telling where the AoE was because the ground is the exact same color of orange. Not great.

In the early period of an expansion it's always fun to heal because people don't know the mechanics and everyone has bad gear.
Probably by 7.1 healing will return to 1-1-1-1 spam. I will say the healer role quests basically being "Hey Esuna exists" is really fucking funny.
One of the expert dungeons also having a healing check during a trash pull was also a pleasant suprise.
I would put healing in DT as more fun than EW but still very boring compared to pre-ShB healing.