Coming back to WHM

[Maeka]

Don't give the guy bad advice if you don't understand WhM that well.

I understand WHM perfectly well for general use for which the OP was asking.

They weren't looking for max DPS savage raiding guides, they were looking for layman's terms, the casual Expert Roulette type stuff. Which very few people on these boards understand, and I've experienced this myself, is I'm just looking for general tips and people are going on and on about weaving oGCDs and pushing 99.9% performance out of the job when... that's not what I'm looking for. Neither is the OP. People on these forums talk like you gotta be absolute perfection, rather than giving general pointers to start with, and slowly adding more as the person gets more skilled with the job and more comfortable doing the job, no they think you should MaxDPS right from the start the first time you try to play.

Then what happens is a person Q's up, tries to do that and fumbles all over themselves and people die while they were casting DPS spells because they forgot the first job of the healer is to, you know, cast heals to keep people alive.

Instead of going on and on about weaving and max DPS, how about letting the OP understand the heal buttons, and advise him on different methods, and such to let him get muscle memory and stuff like that down, first?

You're technically correct on Esuna to a point. It has a tiny handful of situational uses, like paralyze and a few bosses with lethal DoT's designed to be removed. I'd keep it on your bar. However you could count all these situations on one hand. Most DoT's won't outpace a HoT, they aren't "very powerful", they're just a nuisance. Poison in particular tends to be barely noticeable. Bad healers will Esuna these on sight and think they're being useful, but are in reality wasting GCD's. I very rarely need Esuna.

I was replying to the person who said to remove it from your bar altogether, lol. Why are you talking like we disagree on this?

Cure is rubbish. Really, just forget it exists after lv30 and only use Cure II. Cure II won't eat your MP like crazy, yes this isn't Stormblood, we have more MP management than ever.
Cure II will indeed be your main single target heal (after Tetra, Bene and Regen) until you unlock Solace which is first priority.

Until some tank that knows nothing about mitigation buttons decides to pull 3 groups of mobs and you blow Tetra, Benediction, Benison, all 3 Solaces, and Assize and have nothing left. Cure2 spam will eat through your MP rather fast. It's happened to me before.

Did I mention Cure is bad?

Not in all situations. *shrug*

Solace and Rapture may not be oGCD but they're worth 225 potency each (after lv74) and create a weave window (weave windows are very valuable on WhM). They are not like regular GCD heals.

Again you're talking about weaving and junk that you worry about in Savage Raids. I never once said that Solace and Rapture should be avoided and not used. When did I say that? I said "Don't treat it like an oGCD button" as in, don't hit one of these buttons expecting to immediately cast something else right after because it ain't gonna happen.

Medica II was not nerfed. It was buffed. The potency was doubled and the duration halved, so the HoT is stronger and condensed. This isn't Stormblood. It's better than Medica in most situations.

But yet you need to cast more of them to keep the HoT up, it falls off a lot quicker.

Plenary is 200 Potency. The others are 200-300. You mean double (or less), not more. Plenary is great though.

Odd, I oftentimes see the Plenary heal come up as being more than the original heal. The numbers are displayed on screen, afterall.

Assize is exactly the same as before. You use it on cd for dps.

Maybe it has something to do with gear levels and health pools, that this is early patch and my last memories of Assize from Stormblood being late patch, but it just seems to heal for more % of someone's health meter now than it did before despite the potency numbers attached to it.