Just healed for the first time.

[Ninster]

A bit of background: I have ACN at lvl 31, and plan on going SCH for endgame first, then maybe picking up WHM as time goes on. I lean towards support roles if only because I have no leading capability whatsoever.

So I went to level my CNJ to 15 from 14 and ended up actually going overboard and hit 18. So I figured, why not try out getting adjusted to healing. And the first thing I think of is Sastasha. So I queue up and find that the instance is ready almost immediately.

First, this is my first time actually using Duty Finder on my own, ever. A friend's been helping me through the story to this point, so he always queued up me and him as a duo. This is my first time healing (thread title). This was my second time to run Sastasha, with my first being several months ago.

Party composition: me, tank(no clue what class), ACN, PUG

So I was incredibly nervous on the first dungeon. And things went rougher than I expected.

Immediately I noticed that the party rushed the first mobs, meaning I had to figure out who the tank was (lucky guess on my part, especially since it ended up being a tossup with the DPS that took hate) and start healing. For the most part I kept the tank topped off, but it wasn't until the clams that I realized that I hadn't put up Protect and that I was unsure just how much time I had to cast it between (or during) pulls. Managed to get it off without trouble.

After the second encounter with the captain is where things took a bit of a turn. Tank nabbed the loot while the PUG took off and left us. And he was down by the time the three of us caught up, despite me trying to save him. And I just barely reacted enough to get back on the tank.

The last mobs before the boss were a mess, and it's at this point I have questions. I'm not sure what happened, but apparently tank either failed to grab everything or lost hate from one of the mobs, because me and PUG ended up taking damage. At this point I panicked and tried to Medica to keep everyone alive, but before I knew it I was down.

Having never had wipes occur in my time as ACN, I was a bit confused about mechanics here. I warped back to the entrance, then I hesitated because I wasn't sure if party was going to wipe (in which case I should've waited?), but after a few seconds of seeing health bars stay stable, I took the shortcut back and realized the rest of the party was still there. So... did ACN cover for me or what? Again, this is confusing, so I apologize if anything I say here comes off as dumb or common sense.

Anyway, the boss... well, my friend showed me how the adds spawned (and how to prevent them) but that was as ACN, so I was confused the entire fight. All I could figure to do was keep on the tank even as 6-7 adds spawned. It looked like he was trying to take care of the spawn points, but was that supposed to be my role? At any rate, apparently the party focused on bringing the boss down while I tried to hold things together.

So overall, it was a success, but I'm just disoriented overall due to how rushed it felt. I tried to explain in party chat but no one said anything until the end. The tank admitted he was new, but the others said nothing. I was hoping to take this as a learning experience that would help adjust to SCH when I get it but I'm not sure just WHAT I learned, if anything. All I felt like I could do was Cure spam and hold on for dear life.