Healer LB...when to, not to?

[Shmunkster]

Just a question..its ok when i run with my FC, cos we make plans...but in DF when I'm just practising fights.....is the Healer using the LB frowned upon?

3 people left standing in HM primal...do I do it - or should I wipe and let us try again because I know really the BLM wants it later? (and I'm not sure there is enough time to get it back after my use)

Oh, I don't know....hmmmm...

How often do you use it? I think of it as a real goddam emergency LB....is that the general consensus?

[Lemon8or]

It is an emergency LB. When your HM Primal party has 3 people left standing and you can use LB3 to revive the others, why not. If your party almost down the primal and a LB3 from a DPS would kill it, tell the DPS to use it. It's all about estimating which one is better for which situation. I rarely have to use LB when I go as healer.

[Squa]

healing LB is kind of worthless, considering is basically just a medica with a long cast time. It would be like making a Monk limit break a bootshine.

[Shmunkster]

^ I shouda said I'm really only talking about LB3...for sure, the lower LBs are pretty naff

[Kako0404]

Unless the Boss has a sliver of HP left which can be DPS-LB3 downed then it's ok to use healer LB3. It's often applauded as well. However, if both healers are still alive with at least 1 tank I would give the healers a chance to raise the group. Really depends on the fight you're in. Some fights you're just running around dodging stuff without the tanks taking a beating it's not hard to get everyone back us with raises either.

Finally, keep in mind there is a range on the Raise-ga (i say 80-90% of the boss area) so it's possible you might not get everyone if someone died on the opposite side of the boss arena.

[rabbitzero]

There have been some times it's let groups i've been in beat HM primals, so i'd say worth it if you can judge well. Sometimes people go down due to a mistake or whatever, and we do better after getting up. Other times, it's better to just wipe. As GI Joe would say, knowing is half the battle.

[Seryl199]

The timing of an lb raise requires a lot of precision and knowledge of the fight too. The invulnerability time players get from raises is practically nonexistent with lb3. Raising a party only to have them all drop again to raid wide damage puts everyone to brink of death, which is far harder to recover from than weakness. Not to mention the very very long animation lock, during which you will not be able to heal your tank. That said, a well timed limit break really has the potential to bring a party back from a near wipe situation. Unless your party is saving lb for a mechanic that will absolutely wipe you if it doesn't go off, there's no reason to not use it to try and recover

[Lollie]

From a dps stand point, the lb3 adds 60 to 80 seconds of dmg for a 6 second cast. Assuming you arnt mp depleted and Titan isn't in reliably kill able range (5-7%) you get exponential time reduction returns for every dps that stays up, the second healer hopefully gets up in your scenario, no mp cost ale cure 2, so by all means us it.

That said this is something best left to the Brd or sch to do.

[Shmunkster]

Cool. Thanks for the thoughts all!
I think we are all pretty much in agreement.
Excellent.

[Teleniel]

There are very few times I've found a healer LB useful. The first question I ask is, can I recover this without using the limit break? (Swiftcast rez other healer or a summoner). Then I ask if I can't do that, can I continue to heal the fight through without using the LB (or would we hit an enrage mechanic). If I can't, can the tank survive without heals while the limit break charges and fires / can I get him healed if he's low afterward? Finally after all that I ask myself if we need the LB for a DPS-burn phase, or to survive an incoming attack (killed spiny plume early? tank LB might save you once... same with ultima-4 bomb tank LB helps keep ppl alive through it!)

Because of how long it takes to fire (so no heals going out), and how long people are stuck in place (oops AoE under your feet now)... it is almost always better to restart than to use a healer LB.