How to add more fun to the healer role~

[Somi]

Dear healers,

these past weeks I have been exceedingly bored running content for my tomestones on Scholar. Not complaining though, nope.

I am a healer at heart and the party's wellbeing is my concern - I care for health bars and noobs alike. Elitists can go to hell though, seriously (Relic for AK... mumble mumble...).

Anyhow... I dared the impossible... I dared to do damage. O_O;

Quite honestly, it is much much much better than you'd imagine. Previously, I had to stand and wait for the health bar to drop significantly to do my job and make it go back up.... yay full bars!

*cough* BUT! I decided no... I don't want to do this anymore... I want to be more than the ordinary bar-filler!

SO I tried to use Cleric Stance and throw my DoTs around, even spread them!

I was able to do this even with badly geared tanks and no deaths whatsoever, since I got proficient at switching stances by now. I can do this the whole time, during bosses and trash and all is good.

It is SO cool I had to share it just in case you've never thought of it before.

It's like having a third DD in AK or you're making up for someone who'd otherwise ruin the run for you.

Oh and this happened: you can kill the wall just fine even if one DD falls off in the beginning and the tank jumps later on, 'cause he's a not a real Samurai (fighting to the death and such...).



... have fun trying it out. But don't let anyone die because you got damage-crazed, k? Go for it!




TL;DR Try doing damage as SCH (or WHM, didn't try that) with your DoTs and spreading mechanic, it's fun and makes you feel badass. <3

[Claire_Pendragon]

I've tried this, and I thought I was doing considerable dmg, until I compared my own dmg, to a single DPS.

Wasn't even close.

In the span of 3 GCDs, I did roughly 5% of the dmg a single DPS did. (After all DoTs are on the target)

I still do it, but its not all that impressive in any shape, unless its content you're over geared for.

[Millerna]

I often dps as WHM on Demon Wall, and quickly turn off cleric stance just before the bees pop to heal through those. Depending on the fight, it's very doable to toggle cleric stance on and off and chuck in some damage, just need to make sure (as a WHM at least) to keep an eye on your MP (so no spamming Holy ) and obviously people's health bars. And anticipate the boss's attacks a little as well, considering they pretty much all have phases where they do heavy damage.

(Also, a lot of Samurai didn't fight to the death, especially the low ranking ones who didn't get paid enough for that kinda nonsense )

[Nuinn]

Welcome to the fun part of SCH life ;D It's why I ❤ maining SCH. Never a dull moment on it!

[Somi]

(Also, a lot of Samurai didn't fight to the death, especially the low ranking ones who didn't get paid enough for that kinda nonsense )

I knew someone would be smarter than me on this one! I still found it funny though

[Somi]

Welcome to the fun part of SCH life ;D It's why I ❤ maining SCH. Never a dull moment on it!

Yay! Don't tell anyone, but I think SCH is vastly superior to WHM in the fun department.

[Snitchie]

Why not just macro in clerci stance on, stone II cleric stance off. Simple. And works wonders, never needing to press that stance button manually. Here is the macro im using. And casting like a mad cat in runs ^^ Makes me feel more like an RedMage, I only miss that fencing sword and those refresh spells

/ac "Cleric Stance" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Aero II" <t>
/wait 4
/ac "Cleric Stance " <me>

[Somi]

I've tried this, and I thought I was doing considerable dmg, until I compared my own dmg, to a single DPS.

Wasn't even close.

In the span of 3 GCDs, I did roughly 5% of the dmg a single DPS did. (After all DoTs are on the target)

I still do it, but its not all that impressive in any shape, unless its content you're over geared for.

I am not sure how well I was doing... considering the damage meter someone was running MUST have been wrong.. it showed me on par with SMN (without the pet).

In any way, it helps. And if it can kill Demon Wall with a DD missing it beats just doing "your job".

[HumsterMKX]

Did that for the pass 2 weeks already. But becareful. It depends a lot on the PT setups.

[Somi]

Why not just macro in clerci stance on, stone II cleric stance off. Simple. And works wonders, never needing to press that stance button manually. Here is the macro im using. And casting like a mad cat in runs ^^ Makes me feel more like an RedMage, I only miss that fencing sword and those refresh spells

/ac "Cleric Stance" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Aero II" <t>
/wait 4
/ac "Cleric Stance " <me>

Macros scare me for lag reasons. But I may experiment with that this week thehehehe