Healer Limit Breaks

[Blessedbythesun]

I dislike using healer LB3. I can count on one hand how many times it has actually saved a raid I have been in when I was demanded to do so. The animation is unnecessarily long and the brief period after the fact that leaves you a sitting duck doesn't help at all.

If it were possible to get rid of weakness debuffs, or add some protection after use like stoneskin or galvanize (related to whatever job uses it) so people don't die immediately after use would help.

But as it stands, if tanks are dead, you are screwed. If DPS are dead during during a crunch phase, you are screwed. Not to detract though from raids that have actuality benefited from it though. I prefer not to use it and just wipe if a boss still has a considerable amount of HP left.

[Blessedbythesun]

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I have never thought to use it as a preventative measure rather than a desperation one because, on my server at least, LB3 is almost exclusive to DPS unless say T13 where Tanks used it for Teraflare.

[AlexanderThorolund]

I wish each class had a separate limit break they could use based off their own individual limit break bar that didn't effect the group limit break bar.

[dragoelete]

I wish each class had a separate limit break they could use based off their own individual limit break bar that didn't effect the group limit break bar.

do you have any idea how op that would be... imagine 4 dps using LB3 at the same time the poor boss monster would be ripped to shreds...

[Zomkei]

I just wish they removed the stupid amount of animation lock (on all 3 of them) because it'll get you killed very often.

I have never not died when doing an LB3 as healer. The animation lock is so long and usually if I'm required to LB3 most of the party is dead... which leads to everything targeted at me.

[Azorius]

I really wish SE would give everyone their own LB bar (that still only fills in group) and balance them accordingly.

[416to305]

That would be sweet if everyone got their own separate limit break bar. Doesn't have to be some hardcore damage dealing type thing, even just some buff for the party. Like for example when a Healers LB is full, it does some kind of 15 or 20 second super Protect or Shell type thing on the party. Or for DPS it boosts damage dealt by 15% type thing. Would be hard to balance it of course so that it's not TOO powerful, but something along those lines.

[Whiteroom]

I never want to have to use LB as a healer, it did save a run yesterday though.

[416to305]

My problem with it as well is because it's pretty much only used by DPS, there's so many times that it just doesn't get used. Like I was in one one time, the other healer the only person left and LB3 fully charged but they didn't use it. Same with another time, had the boss down to like 3% HP in just some hard mode primal, somehow everyone had wiped except a BLM and LB3 was fully charged. Instead they just kept casting Fire and got killed. Because it's so specific on who gets to use it I find that many times people like myself aren't even paying attention to it since it's so rare we'd use it.

[Locet]

Got to use the Astro LB3 two nights ago for the 1st time, and it looks AWESOME