Healer report: Aurum Vale

[Rivxkobe]

This is a lot harder for a whm because it's the slowest healer, with no "Oh Shit" button.

Just to clarify, SCH doesn't have one here either. Things are alleviated a little because of the fairy, but I wouldn't say Aurum Vale is much easier with a SCH, especially on the final boss since WHM has Holy and SCH has basically no way to help burn down with AoE. I'd say they are about the same in difficulty honestly.

Still not nearly as hard as it was in the past as a SCH though, since the Fairy doesn't get insta-melted from the first and third boss anymore. Lol.



Anyway, I personally dislike this dungeon as any class. Its too slow and if anyone is even slightly undergeared or clueless as to how to play their class (WHM spamming Cure II, then Cure III when Tank is low for example[personal experience]) can cause things to go south VERY quickly. And the rewards just aren't worth it. It IS a good test for everyone, but once you are comfortable enough in your role it becomes a dungeon better avoided as best you can.

[Auxilio]

I would agree it is a healer test, being a healer myself and main-ing WHM ever since the start.

It tests your ability to handle a stressful situation where your ENTIRE party is taking damage at the same time (with the occasional additional accidental hit taken by a DPS, and tank getting the usual hits), so you have to make good use of WHM's skills, and your own situational awareness of the battle + your party member's HP situation.

For your case specifically, you'd find this dungeon a whole lot easier if you just keep regen up on everyone during the 1st and final boss fight where everyone has those DoTs on them. Pay attention to anyone getting more than 3 stacks and pray hard they know how to eat the fruit, or else you might have to pop additional cures on them.

A general rule is NOT to dps, and there's many reasons why you shouldnt at this point. (1) You're still new to the dungeon and it'll be wiser to familiarize with all its mechanics, (2) You're still familiarizing with WHM, and finally (3) You're a healer, not a dps.. so it'd be wiser to focus on what you need to do first, and only perform your secondary role when the primary's comfy (and also it'll help if point 1 and 2 is not an issue for you anymore in the weeks/months ahead).

Oh and also, you can type a short post, then edit it to make it go beyond the 1000 char limit, I just did that for this post

[Gemina]

After the run and my nerves have settled, and looking at my vid I can evaluate appropriately. I'd no doubt do better if I ran it again. Some things I take from this place:

Ignore DPS for most part if running through the first time. Lack of dps on my part will slow the run down, but nowhere near as much as people dying.

Stand by fruit during first boss if possible to quickly clear debuff. Makes a huge difference.

Second boss, focus target and pay close attention to what he is casting. Almost all dmg is avoidable if everyone does this.

Last boss, can finally dps, holy, holy, and more holy.
This is a very mechanic heavy dungeon, and it was a good test for me. I know I'm still being schooled here. I need to get better with holy, and be more attentive to enemy cast bars. On the plus side, I didn't heal with cleric up. Not even once

[Shikiseki]

To me, Aurum Vale always was more of a Tank check rather than a healer check.
Other than the constant poison debuffs that only can be cleared with a limited amount of fruits (which is imo the only healer check), there's no major thing that cannot be prevented by skilled pulls and efficient tank migration skills. Heck the 2nd boss effectively has only his unavoidable instant cleave and auto attacks if you do things right.

[Ebonwings]

Did AV yesterday as a leveling roullete as WHM. It's fun and challenging when I completely forgot that mobs hit harder and I spammed cure I to proc cure 2. XD I have a lot to learn as WHM. Sometimes I even forgot that I'm the healer since i still think in a tank's perspective like forgetting to heal myself while party had full HP.

[SundayTrash]

No offense, bit I wouldn't consider dungeon to be a good test for healer, most of the time u can just stoneskin the tank and pop eye for an eye, b4 pull to get 2 holy in. If u want a real test do Ex titan on snyc .

[Gemina]

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Ohhh, I planned for that during the poison stacks when looking at videos. Divine seal and tossing the regen really help. Was really wishing I had medica II here

Ohhh, and thanks for the tip. Sneaky lol. Wish I thought of that

[Gemina]

No offense, bit I wouldn't consider dungeon to be a good test for healer, most of the time u can just stoneskin the tank and pop eye for an eye, b4 pull to get 2 holy in. If u want a real test do Ex titan on snyc .

Why does there always have to be someone shoving an ex primal down my throat when I'm trying to take something good out of a first time instance? Do you realize for players like me, it takes away just about everything I was feeling good about.

I'll get to the ex primal someday. When I do, I hope I'm not a disappointment to players like yourself and the dps who called me out for dying.

[Nekotee]

The SCH got the fairy help which is wonderfully strong and can almost heal the whole dungeon.
You might have to help her from time to time but EoS is more than enough in each fight.

As a SCH you fight like a summoner keeping DoTs up on the boss
So when the last boss shat it's eggs you bane and blizzard II (since EVERY healer have swiftcast they also have B2

Adlo is useful if you have the heavy hit timing for each boss

The most frustrating as SCH in Aurum Vale is not having shadowflare

But it's true that not having lustrates is sometime hard...
Especially with squishy tank XD

[SundayTrash]

Dungeon is pretty much a cake walk, anyone that just recently pick up healing that can read their skill description can pretty much get the work done. End game healing is what make or break healers. We test healer by making then solo heal Ex Seph.