Healing help

[VampericKitteh]

Hey there thanks for the replies! As for what exactly makes me feel overwhelmed, it's the fact that all the dungeons have been speed from the start of HW. I can't keep up it seems I'm not sure when and how to manage my skills without overhealing, and also how the healer is expected to help with DPS (not a bad thing, just can't keep up) I don't place enough trust in my faeries as a SCH. Just need to learn when and how to mitigate properly.

[seekified]

Hey there thanks for the replies! As for what exactly makes me feel overwhelmed, it's the fact that all the dungeons have been speed from the start of HW. I can't keep up it seems I'm not sure when and how to manage my skills without overhealing, and also how the healer is expected to help with DPS (not a bad thing, just can't keep up) I don't place enough trust in my faeries as a SCH. Just need to learn when and how to mitigate properly.

Sounds to me you just need to give it more time, to be honest. The leveling dungeons (16-47, 51-59) usually have a much lower pace, because people can't outgear them nearly as much as the 50 and 60 stuff, so maybe doing a few runs of those while experimenting with positioning, skills, faeries, etc would be a good idea.

Like I said in my (perhaps too long) post above, SCH is a busy job, but it's very rewarding once you get comfortable with it. I haven't played WHM myself, but from what I've seen it might be an easier starting point since you don't have to worry about pet management.

Muscle memory also helps a lot, and that goes for all jobs. Just taking some time to re-arranging your hotbars, trying out some DPS spells on a dummy if you feel up to it, getting used to Heel/Stay/Place for your pets... Just doing stuff like that while not having to worry about anything else can go a long way to freeing up your brain to focus on what's happening in actual battles. Hang in there, and know that by asking these questions you've already done more to improve than many, many players ever do.

[EaMett]

Hey there thanks for the replies! As for what exactly makes me feel overwhelmed, it's the fact that all the dungeons have been speed from the start of HW. I can't keep up it seems I'm not sure when and how to manage my skills without overhealing, and also how the healer is expected to help with DPS (not a bad thing, just can't keep up) I don't place enough trust in my faeries as a SCH. Just need to learn when and how to mitigate properly.

It might be an ilvl thing as well.

One thing I would say is that if you aren't really comfortable with SCH at the moment. Then the last thing you should worry about is overhealing unless you run out of mana regularly. Which I feel is hard with SCH if you use your aetherflow as soon as it's available (and ED with whatever stacks are left).

Actually as side note, overhealing is way overrated. It's only bad when you run out mana or when you could be DPSing or healing something more urgent instead.
Both of these are easily dwarfed by knowing fight mechanics and/or better gear.
I'd argue that, if you can afford it, overhealing in many instances is a good thing. From covering for unexpected random damage to using aspected heals (succor/medicaII) exclusively for their side effects on a full hp party. All of these provide benefits that outweigh "not overhealing and finishing a fight with 10%+ mana". Or simply outweigh having people die.

Anyways... back on topic. I found that the most painful part for me was leveling 50-60 with SCH. Didn't know the encounters, mechanics, damage. Everyone was geared up while I wasn't and replenishing bars was really tough.
Don't be afraid to tell your tank to chill because you can't keep up.

A few things that helped me during that were:
- Use eye for an eye on large pulls. That's where it shines.
- Alternate adlo and benefic + Keep Eos on obey and spam embrace on the tank while your character is casting. (keep the embrace spam up in cleric as well)
- Most tanks will cooldown appropriately if they get in the 20-40% hp range, take advantage of this. This is actually true of everyone in your party. It's amazing how well your group starts playing when they're all at 30% hp!! Makes you wonder.
- Rouse is your friend in cleric. If large pulls are a struggle, use it and whispering dawn as often as you can, it does wonders for staying longer in cleric.
- Right as the last mob of each pull dies, place stoneskin if you have it and adlo on your tank. This plus spamming embrace means that you can start all the large pulls in cleric. Place your dots and Bane at the very least before having to switch back and heal
- Don't be afraid to use swiftcast + stoneskin in the middle of pulls to get extra time in cleric (or if stoneskin falls off during the running phases of large pulls)
- Use your aetherflow stacks. Get a few more cleric stance CGDs in by letting your tank go lower in hp and then spam lustrate to up them. That's also an option.

A lot of this I'm sure you're aware of having played SCH before. I also don't claim to have extensive knowledge as I'm a new SCH player myself. I just thought I would be somewhat extensive with how my own experience went.

Cheers.