What makes the limit break bar fill up?

[Ekko]

Healing does (overhealing does not)

[AvenDar]

I thought this was an interesting quip from the live letter:

"it's actually more beneficial to have different jobs in the party to help fill your limit break gauge faster. There are a lot of situations where you can use level 3 limit breaks, so if you have a strategy that calls for limit breaks at certain times, it's be more advantageous to make parties with different jobs."


I wonder if it has something to do with the stat blocks that light up as certain jobs join the group?

[Zilara]

What Sinth said is accurate, the amount of damage or healing dealt makes no difference, the limit bar is only affected by the direct action of attacking or healing. That said, the conditions that can trigger a large increase to the limit bar are successfully healing a critical hp party member, interrupting specific attacks from bosses, having a party member die, or in rare cases, killing a certain enemy (Ifrit's Nails). There's likely a few more causes out there, but these are the most common.

[Alkimi]

I wonder if it has something to do with the stat blocks that light up as certain jobs join the group?

I read this dev comment more as each different job you have in the party adds a multiplier to all actions that charge the limit break slightly faster.

A good example is BG's recent Twintania kill where they have 2xBRD 2xPLD. You'll notice that between the adds phase and the conflagration phase neither the MNK or off-tank are attacking at all and they're deliberately slowing down damage to build up limit break so they have L3 for the 2nd set of snakes. With a party of 8 different jobs we've noticed we don't need to do that.

[Klutz64]

Does anyone know if successfully dodging an attack fills the bar up at all? I feel like it should.

EDIT: Not as in, like, getting out of the way of an AoE, but evading an attack through stats.