It's time to kill the argument that DPS abilities keep healers from healing.

[AFuzzyMu11in]

Boss can't even crit past Stormblood anymore anyway, so tank hp literally go down at a certain rate so you just need to heal every x seconds. I feel like people are blaming balance and optimization or raid for their own lazyness to learn.



I mean, that's what a lot of healers do, heal the damage that was just done? You only need to plan if you want very high parses (95+). Even as a scholar, a good scholar will only pre shield when the damage would kill.. so "sometimes" in savage, maybe twice a fight. By learning mechanics you realize how mostly everything is just rehashed mechanics, even in savage: what you call "patterns" are just those basic mechanics in a certain sequences or with a different skin.

And ... after 80 lvl you are supposed to know how much your heals are doing?? A heal without crit wont magically go from 25 to 50k, the same way damage doesnt randomly appear. You look once how much your heals are doing once, and most of them have the same potency anyway, so you know what they will do.

Hmm I never knew this. I just figured learning that stuff was some diamond + type league jazz and I have no intention of ever climbing pass diamond and putting in that effort sooooo…you can still clear as a reactionary healer but I guess I could learn my heal amounts somehow. Do dummies work for it?

Also I always assumed that unless the person is lower hp your heal would be less. So you could only learn if you got someone low first.

[Aiscence]

Hmm I never knew this. I just figured learning that stuff was some diamond + type league jazz and I have no intention of ever climbing pass diamond and putting in that effort sooooo…you can still clear as a reactionary healer but I guess I could learn my heal amounts somehow. Do dummies work for it?

Also I always assumed that unless the person is lower hp your heal would be less. So you could only learn if you got someone low first.

Na it's not diamond level stuff, healing is more about "being calm", If I need to move i'll just move to get out of the aoe then go back to casting, it works well because I'm lazy and I don't really want to move too much XD. Don't be afraid to "cancel" a cast, i'm spamming my dps spell and if I see an aoe/whatever damage coming, I'll just cancel or just wait for my cast to finish then do the heal. I can solo heal most duties up to extreme with that, but the condition is to know what your kit is doing. In savage even without having healed in shb, I could reach 6k dps as a scholar with crafted gear while still healing well on e8s with doing that. And it was way more than enough to kill the fight if you dont go for a week 1 or 2 kill. Savage looks way scarier than it actually is when you get used to it, as I said at the beginning: being a healer is about being cool headed.

As some people said, you can heal yourself in a town, see how much it does on you, and you know what it ll do in a dungeon, even if you have no idea, when the duty begin, just pop a cure2, and you compare with the tank hp, no one remember their healing for each dungeons. The confusion with the lower the hp, the highest the heal is only for essential dignity from Ast, other than this one, you can heal yourself while full hp in your house and it's the same as being low hp!

if my cure 2 (700 potency) does 28 000 heal, then I know medica/rapture(it's the same skill, just no mana) will do half of that +-. Then you have to learn once (as any roles having one of them) that a regen/dot ticks every 3 seconds and you get how much your regen skills do (approximative):
Medica 2 is an aoe cure2 (200 + 500 from the regen)
Asylum is 800 + 80 potency from the asylum effect.
And you can see, everything is more or less at the level of a cure 1 or at the level of a cure 2. Ast and scholar have basically the same potencies, just with twist like cards or aetherflow, your learn it once in a few minutes like I just explained and you know them all, that's why people are often saying "they are all the same"".

The high level diamond league things are more people planning everything to the exact heal in advance, never cancel because of it and you need to have a co heal you know well for it, it's mostly for ultimates or very high logs which I cba, so dw about that, I dont find it fun either.