My Roe Might Become White Mage?

Hi y’all,
I’m playing Dragoon, reaper, paladin, and summoner. I don’t touch sage or any healer class do to being a wow refugee but I want to try playing white mage for fun and rp my character. My characters background is she was found as a baby near isigard and was raised by a elf woman. She learns to fight with swords, shields, and spears. She worships the fury. One day she goes to forest place to learn to get stronger with spear and magic so she can return to adopted mother and also join maelstrom to find her birth parents. I thought it could be cool to add she learns to become a white mage but I’m so scared to heal in dungeons and raids. Any advice would really be appreciated and I would love some critique on backstory if you like.

I'd say go for it! The MRD class quests incidentally feature a female Sea Wolf roe CNJ (the sister of the Guildmaster) who accompanies you during the quests, so there is precedent. You can always bend the lore to say that your character first learned Conjury and then learned White Magic as well through 'certain sources' in Gridania, and just leave it at that. The lore isn't that immutable that you can't figure out ways to make things like that work. ;)

Either way, by all means, try CNJ/WHM, and even from a gameplay point of view, it might be something you actually enjoy! That's the beauty of the Armoury System - you're not locked to anything and can switch your class/Job freely. :D

Healing isn't all that difficult. Not as a WHM, at least.

I wouldn't be scared diving into a dungeon as a WHM.

There will be some hairy moments that you may struggle to get out of first (multiple people 3/4 stacking the debuff at the first boss in Aurum Vale, for instance or huge overpulls with the DPS standing in the bad stuff). But, as you improve, you will be able to deal with these with ease. You will be able to get yourself out of 95% of hairy situations (there will always be a couple that you can't).

So, dive in. I have healed in every major MMO since FFXI, as well as some minor ones. FF14 is one of the most welcoming communities for healers. The one time I ever had somebody belittle my healing skills was because I genuinely messed up. I zoned out while the tank pulled the entire last room in Satasha. I could have healed through it, but I was tired and was basically just being a Stone I bot and didn't notice the health plummeted. Still, a quick raise and nobody else died.

Astro isn't too bad either, but you have to use their whole skillset, otherwise you tend to go out of mana fairly quickly. However, since you mentioned just WHM, you will be fine.

Go for it! You can always do what I do with my characters and ignore the fact that I've taken jobs on them they never would "in real life" strictly for in game reasons.

If you're worried about healing not fitting your roe, they are definitely not a weakling role, you either die the first panel or live long enough to be the 2nd

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If you want to practice, you can always do dungeons in duty support. It won't be the same as running with real people, but you can at least get used to using a healer in content.

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Originally Posted by Reimmi

If you're worried about healing not fitting your roe, they are definitely not a weakling role, you either die the first panel or live long enough to be the 2nd

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...42/099/493.png

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For the first time ever in FF14, I had to tell somebody I wouldn't heal them the other day.

They managed to get a whopping 9 stack on the final Aurum Vale boss.

They said they got it all at once from the mobs, but I saw it tick up over the course of about a minute.

They died the very second the boss hit the next attack (nobody surviving that 9 stack), but I didn't res them.

On the other hand, I feel much more 'toxic' in other MMOs. Not to the point that I am screaming at people for not letting the tank pull, blah blah. The whole healing environment feels much more different and far less relaxed to the point it drives me insane.

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Originally Posted by PirateRyanG

For the first time ever in FF14, I had to tell somebody I wouldn't heal them the other day.

They managed to get a whopping 9 stack on the final Aurum Vale boss.

They said they got it all at once from the mobs, but I saw it tick up over the course of about a minute.

They died the very second the boss hit the next attack (nobody surviving that 9 stack), but I didn't res them.

On the other hand, I feel much more 'toxic' in other MMOs. Not to the point that I am screaming at people for not letting the tank pull, blah blah. The whole healing environment feels much more different and far less relaxed to the point it drives me insane.

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The real reason I’m scared to heal is I truly tried to heal in WOW but I was new and I couldn’t keep up with party. The tank told me to go dps or he would dox me and hurt my family. This scared me so much and I have big anxiety that this will happen again.

try to look into SCH or SAGE instead. It will match the character better

Go whatever, no job in the game is limited to a singular race.

No, not even White Mage. Your character is special. They choose you. YOU are worthy. Be you small, large, green or blue.

You'll do fine. Healing's straightforward in this game. And Male Roes tend to be healers quite often from what I see, so if you want to go healer, trust me, it's fine.

Break expectations, screw stereotypes.

WHM is easiest healer. i would say go for it, its not difficult to heal in XIV. just keep in mind, healers are expected to DPS when there isnt any damage going out. you dont need to keep everyone topped off all the time, its ok to let the tank get to about 40 ~ then heal them up. go slow at first then ease into more stones between heals, and once you get holy, utilize it. holy is your best mitigation as it stuns packs of mobs.

another advice to give to healers is once you get cure 2, drop cure 1. free cure fishing is a trap, its useless and you get more out of cure 2 per GCD. once you get about 70-60 percent mana use lucid dreaming, keep it on cool down, you'll never run out of mana unless things go south pretty quick.

if you want to dig deeper into how to utilize whm, check out the balance, https://www.thebalanceffxiv.com/jobs...rs/white-mage/ this guide will teach you everything you need to know, and trust me when i say that if you use whm to the best of it's abilities, its a hella fun class to play. good luck!

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Originally Posted by Swampking

... Any advice would really be appreciated and I would love some critique on backstory if you like.

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The beauty of the new dungeon systems mean you don't have to heal for actual people if you don't want to! You can level things purely through other means instead of dungeon running and never have to touch Duty Finder. I do that for my tank classes because I have the worst anxiety when I tank, regardless of how well I actually do. The beauty of roleplay also means you don't have to be On all the time and if you don't feel like running as a healer, you don't have to. In character my character is a black mage who dabbles in other magical means but may not be as good at them or be able to use them at all... but out of character I have all my classes leveled. She certainly can't punch or hold a giant axe, but I have the classes leveled anyway. I generally don't do rp stuff in a dungeon unless I've unsynced content with a friend for the sole purpose of doing rp in a dungeon.



As for how to level it quickly: do your cnj hunting log, FATEs, and leves until 15. Hunting log will get you there pretty quickly as well. You can keep those in the mix until you hit 50 if you want, but once you hit 15 you can start doing the duty support stuff. If you've unlocked GC/Clan hunts, doing those daily give a bunch of xp, as do the daily tribal quests starting in the 40s in each city.

As for healing advice: if you do end up wanting to test the waters, so to speak, remember your ABC: Always Be Casting. If your tank isn't taking damage like a wet paper bag that's underwater in the middle of a hurricane, you can dps. Choose a threshold that you're comfortable with - like, 55% health - before you start healing them. You can use your cooldown healing, lillies are going to be big enough healing as a WHM, use all of your abilities if you need to depending on what kind of damage your tank is taking. If they're using their cooldowns correctly and hardly taking damage, you have more time to dps. At 45 you get your best healing tool which is Holy. The 3 stuns before immunity and damage to all enemies is worth it. Drop yourself in the middle of the pack, keep your tank targeted for ease of healing when you need it, begin Holy spam.

I'm more of a dps main but I do heal when I want fast queues or crystals to get new materia. My advice from a dps main who heals on occasion (and healed some stuff during current content last xpac in terms of EX fights): read your tooltips. Get comfortable with dpsing as you heal - your first job is to heal, yes, but if no-one is taking damage, start throwing rocks at the enemy! Watch your tank's health, yell at the screen when they don't use mitigation-- wait, that part is for salty healers :D Watch your tank's health, keep an eye on your surroundings, use instant cast abilities when you need to move but need to heal (Tetra, Afflatus lily abilities). Don't be afraid to say you're new to healing or new to healing that particular dungeon either! Most people are understanding, but the only real way to grow is to say "go balls to the wall crazy with pulling and if I need you to slow down because I can't keep up I'll let you know." Some people may be jerks about it, but others will say "okay, no problem, we'll take it slower." Once you're comfortable, try other content if you want. You don't have to do anything you don't want. You can continue to do nothing but dps and tank in dungeons if you want and just level up a healer on the side for funsies in solo content. That's the beauty of this game.

The only real big thing on WHM that I can think of that is a trap is Freecure. Don't fish for it. Cure 1 is fine for spot healing and if you get a free Cure 2 out of it, great, but in higher content you want to be using Cure 2 and your other abilities (Cure 3 is an aoe heal much like Medica and shouldn't be used for a Cure 2 replacement.)