WHM Appreciation

[Cynfael]

Spamming Medica II at every opportunity, like the healer in that screenshot was doing, had me healing Alliance C more often because Alliance C was unable to kick their SCH who died and stayed dead for two fights.

Oh hey, I have part of this run on Twitch benchmark (trying to calibrate stream bandwidth.) This wasn't a very good run in itself with players ignoring adds, and the tank's not tanking.

So I actually took a few minutes and watched part of the stream. I randomly landed on the Scylla fight.

Before anything else, kudos for posting gameplay. I know people love to play backseat driver and pick apart mistakes, but for what it's worth, my commentary here is intended to be constructive.

1. Yes, that other WHM in your party was terrible. About the only thing I saw it doing in my slice of video was casting Medica II once in a while, usually when no one actually needed it. Whether they're Facebook healing or truly don't know what to do, I have no way of determining, but they are playing badly.

2. While you are doing much more than the other WHM to assist your party, you also happen to be overhealing quite a bit with a lot of unnecessary Cures, Cure IIs, and some gratuitous Medica casts. Your party actually had a lot of healing downtime except during some specific parts where Freezes, Unholies, and add AoEs were making a dent in your low-geared DPS. There were many cases where the bad WHM's Medica II ticks would have topped someone off before they could take enough damage to endanger them; in other cases, slapping a Regen on them would have done fine. I'm a big fan of "set-it-and-forget-it" healing for DPS in non-lethal situations.

3. Don't be afraid to toggle on CS if you're going to throw DoTs. By the time you've cast your DoTs, your CS will be about off cooldown so that you can instantly return to healing if you need to, anyway. Even lower-geared players like your party in that fight pretty much have to TRY to stand in AoEs to be killed before you're able to switch off CS and fluff them back up.

[KisaiTenshi]

So I actually took a few minutes and watched part of the stream. I randomly landed on the Scylla fight.

Before anything else, kudos for posting gameplay. I know people love to play backseat driver and pick apart mistakes, but for what it's worth, my commentary here is intended to be constructive.

1. Yes, that other WHM in your party was terrible. About the only thing I saw it doing in my slice of video was casting Medica II once in a while, usually when no one actually needed it. Whether they're Facebook healing or truly don't know what to do, I have no way of determining, but they are playing badly.

2. While you are doing much more than the other WHM to assist your party, you also happen to be overhealing quite a bit with a lot of unnecessary Cures, Cure IIs, and some gratuitous Medica casts. Your party actually had a lot of healing downtime except during some specific parts where Freezes, Unholies, and add AoEs were making a dent in your low-geared DPS. There were many cases where the bad WHM's Medica II ticks would have topped someone off before they could take enough damage to endanger them; in other cases, slapping a Regen on them would have done fine. I'm a big fan of "set-it-and-forget-it" healing for DPS in non-lethal situations.

3. Don't be afraid to toggle on CS if you're going to throw DoTs. By the time you've cast your DoTs, your CS will be about off cooldown so that you can instantly return to healing if you need to, anyway. Even lower-geared players like your party in that fight pretty much have to TRY to stand in AoEs to be killed before you're able to switch off CS and fluff them back up.

1. It actually got worse later (that's where the screenshot came from.) They pretty much just kept casting Medica II every time it dropped off, and even THAT is overkill for most of ST.

2. Yeah, it wasn't a great run altogether. I'm generally used to the other healer just being useless and not healing. So usually it's Cure I at 10-20% damage, Cure II at 20-50% damage, Medica when multiple targets are damaged (but I don't have time to check if they are close enough) and Medica II when a large amount of damage is incoming. Typically in ST runs, Scylla is defeated before the Pads are even activated regardless of healer DPS participation.

3. I usually don't switch CS until there's a situation for it. That's usually because any time there's DPS opportunity the combined CS switch+ Stone II is longer than the adds HP's lasts. So instead I do Aero II+Aero consecutively to get the DoT's.