First time healer role

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Ok, do I need to target a party member for the Cure spell?

[ruskie]

Ok, do I need to target a party member for the Cure spell?

Yes. Generally you should always be targeting the tank. Also as you seem to have arcanist to 34 go unlock scholar once you hit 15 with your conjurer and you should see the difference in how they perform their healing.

But yes conjurer/white mage healing is in essence cure - if you get a cure II proc use that for a bit of a bigger hit in that time(proc takes no MP) - use medica for aoe heals over a large area, medica II for aoe heals with regen(i.e. you are making a late cast when you know inevitable damage is coming up or you need to be moving a lot) - regen on tanks just after they established enmity - regen on dps if they hit like 70-80% of their hp and no real damage is coming up.

[Sagittarian]

Ok, do I need to target a party member for the Cure spell?

Short answer: yes. If you don't have anything targeted or you have a monster targeted it will cast on you instead.

Long answer: are you on a playstation or pc? If you are on a playstation use the up/down arrows to scroll through the party list. That is a very quick way to target party members. If you are on a pc, click on the person OR their name in the party list. It is possible for people to be out of range or around a corner, so watch for those messages. If you try to select someone and their name isn't being selected it means they are too far away.
As acn/smn you are used to seeing the pet on the party list. Other people don't see your pet on their lists, so as healer you will have trouble targeting them that way. If you want to target a pet you can still click on it to manually target.