N.AST Solo Heals E4S

[ForteNightshade]

And people say healers need fixing!

Outside of Astro before 5.05, few have complained about heals being too weak. Quite the opposite, in fact. Healer kits are hilariously overpowered in this game. The primary complaint is the role itself has become increasingly boring.

[Evanoel]

But... but... Noct AST should be just deleted already.

[Edaniel]

And people say healers need fixing!

Healers haven't been complaining so much about their healing kit. Healers have been criticizing the rest of the kit as boring and uninspired. A kit can be optimized for the highest tier we have, and still be a sleep inducing mess.

[Almostward]

And people say healers need fixing!

You do know that it's not the healing people are complaining about?

[MontyChamberlain]

So I actually took a look at the video and the things the player does are just a farce of what many players would tell you not to do. They use macros for cards, with each corresponding to the DPS in the party list, and they even click to cast almost half of their abilities.

And yet they manage to do not only the bare minimum of healing required for the fight whilst fitting in a few DPS spells, raising a DPS who died before the transition, and healed other players who made a misstep here and there. I regularly spend hours trying to fit keybinds for every ability and this person, with default keybinds and all, ignores all that and just clicks them all!

I know videos like these have existed (solo-healing Ultimate content for example), but it's worth re-iterating here that as long as you do mechanics correctly and perform better than expected, it doesn't exactly matter how you do it.

[Dynia]

Video Here

~~Enjoy!~~

Bonus Solo SCH video here (by the same healer)

buff astro more cmon is so shity compered to OP whm ...
WHM IS SO OP NEED nerf, im glad i left this sunken ship and this comunnity lol

[Ghishlain]

buff astro more cmon is so shity compered to OP whm ...
WHM IS SO OP NEED nerf, im glad i left this sunken ship and this comunnity lol

Please don't turn this into a healer balance discussion. You already have your own thread dedicated to have that discussion. Thank you.

I just wanted to post this to show all levels of healers an example of the pinnacle of healing looks like because I figured they'd enjoy and/or be awed by it. I know I enjoyed watching it.

[Billythepancake]

Please don't turn this into a healer balance discussion. You already have your own thread dedicated to have that discussion. Thank you.

I just wanted to post this to show all levels of healers an example of the pinnacle of healing looks like because I figured they'd enjoy and/or be awed by it. I know I enjoyed watching it.

I wouldn't stress about them, it was legitimately a nice run though. Maybe I can convince my static to let me attempt a solo heal at one point, always wanted those sweet bragging rights.

[Ghishlain]

I wouldn't stress about them, it was legitimately a nice run though. Maybe I can convince my static to let me attempt a solo heal at one point, always wanted those sweet bragging rights.

Oh, not stressing too much but I do want to nip the issue in the bud before it becomes another thread that's about the salt mines of healer balance, lol.

Also, I wouldn't mind trying some solo healing myself, but it definitely does require a certain level of patience from the rest of the group as well so I probably won't pursue this on my end. I solo'd a lot of stuff on WHM back in XI because the game was made for those kinds of challenges. Sadly I can't do that here, but c'est la vie.

I do admire the AST video greatly. As someone who has AST to 78 ATM, the amount of CDs to keep track of makes my head explode. It's fun to see it from the perspective of someone who can keep all those internal clocks clicking and prioritize what needs to happen when without missing a beat. As a WHM main, I actually want to get REALLY good at AST because the skills it teaches one about CD management and awareness is not something I get from playing either SCH or WHM. I figure it's a good skill set to have in my pocket.

[EaMett]

The fact that this healer manually clicks most of their spells is stressing me out for some reason. Impressed with the MP management and party CD rotation aspect of it especially. Impressive feat.