Healing Twintania - Tips Request

[Nailkita]

I'm sure plenty of other healers would like some help with this too. While a large part of our current struggle with Twintania is managing conflag/fireballs we're having a rough time of healing the place.

I'm looking for both Scholar and White Mage tips as depending on which healer is available I play the other.

Main thing I know is that pre death sentance I want an adolquium/stoneskin up on the current tank, and that when split into two groups we can sit withing 16y of eachother and I can sacred soil so that regardless who gets the fireball they get the reduced damage leaving more time for me on the tank.

[Luminuss]

Hi Nailkita. This is what I do during phases 2, 3 and 4 as a scholar on Twin. I am sure it will be different from what others do, but it works for me.

Phase 2:
For the first conflag I heal as normal with physic and embrace. After the first long conflag ends I use eye for an eye, rouse eos and the use a succor to prepare for the incoming fireball damage. I should mention I do not use sacred soil at all for the rest of the fight. We get 3 stacks every 1 minute, or 1.5 stacks a death sentence. In order to make sure our tank does not die to an unlucky double hit right after a DS I try to time a lustrate the moment the DS animation hits in order to heal between the damage. Since lustrate isn't affected by the DS debuff, while a well times Cure 2 is, I find this to be a better use of my stacks. I also prefer to save the last stack in case of an emergency, for instance the other healer is caught in a conflag during DS. I continue with this strategy furing the 3rd and fourth conflag.

[Luminuss]

Phase 3:
As I run to the divet I move eos close enough that she can target the party as we run, but not close enough that she will be hit by dive bombs. Since I am on the main tank, I use eye for an eye and rouse during the spawn phase and proceed to keep him up using mostly physic. At this point I want to make sure I have some extra lustrate stacks during the next dive bombs phase in order to top the tank off while I move. Before the second dive bomb phase I also cast succor and drop a sacred soil if I have the stack, just in case someone doesn't get out of the way quickly enough. As the next adds spawn I run out, positioning eos off to the right of the tank and again heal normally. Before Twintania comes down I make sure to use eos' +healing buff followed by a rouse followed by eos' regeneration and a boosted succor. This will help reduce more of aetheric profusion's damage while also providing nice regen to move into the next phase of the fight.

[Luminuss]

Phase 4:
When Twintania comes down I use a virus on her and focus target her. After AP I make sure my tank is topped off with a lustrate as we run to our positions, placing eos right behind twintania as well. Of course use eye for an eye whenever it is up as well. I should also mention that I pop a rouse before DS if it is up in order to help with the after debuff healing.

Phase 5:
This is all rinse and repeat of the earlier strategies. Note though that eos is in a perfect position for regen to hit the melee, off tank and main tank.

That pretty much sums up what I do during the fight as a SCH. Hope it helps!

[Sinaloa]

Try to get her into that phase shortly after a death sentence (arround 5-10 seconds). That will result in a synchronised deathsentence-conflag. The tank can just enter the conflag to avoid deathsentence. Pretty easy phase if you can do that.

Put up a Petcamp at her tail (either Scholar-pet/Garuda or Scholarpet/offtank) and let the one with the fireball go there if he cant feed it into a conflag.

Try to let the scholar soloheal the tank to free your whm´s capacities to stoneskin the whole group (except the offtank to build up LB). As a conflag shows up heal/lustrate the tank up and let him run inside. This can be tricky if the deathsentence and conflags rotate badly. Mana is no issue here your bard can pull the song at least on every feedable conflag and part 1 of Phase3. If the Scholar can do this well the whm can focus on stoneskinning the whole Group and precast a cure2 on the fireballs target followed by a sk. If for some reason (whm in conflag...) so dont have sk tell the group. Your friendly neighborhood summoner/scholar will put up Virus if that person gets fireball or lay down a bubble.

If struggle to keep the tanks up that way you might want to try dualtanking. As she starts casting deathsentence your offtank spots and the switch positions. DS will hitt the old tank but autoattack the new. Doesn´t work well with only one pet since your tank won´t be able to eat fireballs for a while.

Scholar should try to save his stacks. Don´t bubble if noone would die otherwise. You might need lustrate for the tank. If you got aetherflow off-CD either heal with lustrate or spam a conflag and refresh it as the tank is save inside.

Whm should keep up stonskin on the group, heal the fireball victims and recast buffs if so should die nonetheless.

Warrior as offtank is superior due to constant 10% debuff for the fireball. You might want to let him spot before p3 because you want the Paladin be offtank in p4.

Eye for an eye is very usefull in p3. Use it here until you get a hang of this phase then save it. (BLM & WHM) (Sch and sum may use it at the start due to shorter CD)

edit: pets: if you got enough damage for the conflags take EOS. The magicdamagereduce makes p3->p4 much more relaxed and p3 is with whisperingdawn in the runningphase much more easy
swiftcast seline in the neurolink 3->4

[Nailkita]

Helping so far, I'm really more experienced with WHM healing, and feeling helpless on SCH so I'll try to make better use of my aetherflow. I should note with Eye for an Eye, or usual group has 4 eye for an eye available, two of which have the shorter cooldown (SCH/SMN/WHM/BLM) so we can set up a rotation for it. what about good times for virus? again same 4 will have virus available

[Sinaloa]

We use virus as a CD in this phase. If anyone has no stoneskin the scholar or summoner uses a viurs to compensate if that one gets targeted with a fireball. Note that BLM do not need this due to their own capeability to absorb magic damage. Also if your BLM is good he can cast apocatastasis instead. But virus is easier to land so we chose that way.

The second situation you want to use virus here is if your tank entered a conflag at a bad spot (half life or lower) Any virus on twintania will take stress off the healer as he returns to a healable state.

Basicly - if anything goes well we do not use virus at all here. But since you cant decide who gets the conflag and balls that rarely happens.


edit.: oh and the number one reason ppl die in our raid is because they did not eat buff food. Flame them.

[Nailkita]

edit.: oh and the number one reason ppl die in our raid is because they did not eat buff food. Flame them.

Yeah... I wasn't paying attention one attempt and food buff wore off, I had 4106 health then vs the 4300ish with food... the fireball hit me for 4130

[wildgalax]

as whm you want to medica 2/cure 3 the fireball group, so swiftcast/surecast if helps, and keep an eye for ds to ss tank.

Usually my rotation would be something like seal > medica 2 when fireball is going off, then immidiately ss tank for odd conflags. For even replace the ss with making sure tank is regen on him/topped off, and cleric stance and throw some burst dps at the fast conflag which should be targetable by the time tank is topped off. This pretty much just repeats, although ds timing can sometimes vary.

[Sinaloa]

I forgot one really helpful advice.

If you do it with only one tank (which I do advice if you can handle it) your Off-tank should be #3 in aggro to the max. #2 doesn´t get conflags (not sure about fireballs) because (I guess) this encounter is desinged for tankswapping. And the best thing that can happen is he gets it (if you have two pets [which you do])