Advice for starting PvP healers?

[tinythinker]

Hmmm. In my experience in Frontlines, tanks (especially PLDs) are the ones giving me stun resist within the first 10 seconds my team is on ice, haha. If you're talking about Feast, yeah, I can agree with that, but it seemed more like the OP was interested in Frontlines first.

Yeah the Feast looks *amazing* but Frontlines seemed a better choice for a noob to start with.

[Zojha]

Yeah the Feast looks *amazing* but Frontlines seemed a better choice for a noob to start with.

IMO, a wise choice. Feast has a few extra mechanics that need to be learned. For the sake of completeness and education, a short list:

1. Medals
The win condition of the Feast. The team that has more medals at the end of the match wins. When someone dies, they will lose half their medals, which can then be picked up by the respective other team (indicated by a red or blue circle on the ground). If not picked up before the enemy respawns, the medals return to the one who carried them prior.
When a person carries many medals, they get a stacking vulnerability debuff, which increases damage taken. The severity of the debuff depends on the amount of medals carried - the more medals, the more damage taken.
The amount of medals each person has can be checked by pressing on the little icon of the duty description. It also appears automatically at the start, so if your screen is big enough, you can just put it somewhere and leave it on.

2. Culling Time
After a certain amount of time has passed without someone dying, everyone on the battlefield will get vulnerability stacks until someone dies. This is announced in advance in the chatlog.

3. Crates
There are four kinds of destructible crates in the Feast, one of which only appears in 8vs8. When destroyed, defensive supplies drop a blue circle that gives the first person walking over it a buff to their defenses. Offensive supplies drop a red circle and give an offensive buff. Medical supplies (8vs8) are a blue circle and restore HP. Finally, Adrenaline crates drop a circle that gives a boost to your limit break bar - This is usually taken by the melee DPS.
And since I am talking of circles a lot: Grey means this is something only the enemy team can take.

4. No free chat
I think it deserves to be noted that the Feast currently only allows pre-made chat macros, so you might need an extra hotbar for those. They can be found in the same menu as your PvP abilities (Default keybind: P).

[Llus]

IMO, a wise choice. Feast has a few extra mechanics that need to be learned. For the sake of completeness and education, a short list:

Feast is brutal on new players, especially healers. It's best to learn in unranked feast and frontlines before going into ranked feast. Unranked 8v8 feast is probably the best place to learn how to stay alive and keep your party alive TBH - since there's no rewards tied to rank in 8v8, it's not as bad as sucking horribly in ranked and if you're committed you can learn pretty quickly; 72 man frontlines is going to be very different (especially shatter since most new players just play objectives and then run away)