I Love Healing But Have Bad Habits

[Kacho_Nacho]

I really do! Coming from WoW, the longer global cooldown was offputting, at first. Yet, I've come to appreciate the extra time in provides to make a decision.

But, with that extra time I find myself falling into old "twitch" habits. For example, I don't pause to observe the amount of remaining health of mobs. This has resulted in many miscasts of Aero III and Holy.

The same can be said of my healing. But, what can I do but consciously fight against my ingrained twitch responses?

Have any of you developed habits from other games which are impeding on your healing in FFXIV? I'd like to hear about them!

[Ekimmak]

I really do! Coming from WoW, the longer global cooldown was offputting, at first. Yet, I've come to appreciate the extra time in provides to make a decision.

But, with that extra time I find myself falling into old "twitch" habits. For example, I don't pause to observe the amount of remaining health of mobs. This has resulted in many miscasts of Aero III and Holy.

The same can be said of my healing. But, what can I do but consciously fight against my ingrained twitch responses?

Have any of you developed habits from other games which are impeding on your healing in FFXIV? I'd like to hear about them!

I have the habit of making whatever I bind to 2 outside the flow of normal rotations, due to that being where I put travel powers in City of Heroes. And I never rearrange my HUD.

[Anienai]

I tend to zone out and not pay attention to dps.

[winsock]

But, what can I do but consciously fight against my ingrained twitch responses?

When you make a twitch response, it is an actual response to something that is occurring in game. The first thing I would do is figure out what conditions trigger the response.

In the best-case scenario, it could be solved by developing a new trigger that has its own merits plus overrides the problem one.

[Mirch]

I found healing in pve really slow paced, but in pvp i need to stay focus 100% of time, i tend to get distracted for various reasons in any case

[RopeDrink]

I have no bad habits. I am a perfect snowflake who makes casters wish they had my rock-throwing DPS. Other healers also wish they had my green-number throughput. You flawed mortals should bow your head in awe. Bow it. Right now.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I have no bad habits. I am a perfect snowflake who makes casters wish they had my rock-throwing DPS. Other healers also wish they had my green-number throughput. You flawed mortals should bow your head in awe. Bow it. Right now.

*chuckles*

Oh, you...

/bows humorously

[miraidensetsu]

Have any of you developed habits from other games which are impeding on your healing in FFXIV? I'd like to hear about them!

Being WHM I felt the fault of buffs like those on RO's priest. Also found that the few buffs were very short (besides Protect, of course) and took me some time to get used to the (way) shorter buffs time. And cure has cast time, tetra a long cooldown... =(

Basically I had to learn again how to heal. Healing here is totally different from what I was used to it. And sometimes I let buffs fall down.

[Khalette]

I don't have any from other games, but I do have one from this one: I get way into DPS and forget to heal sometimes. It's especially bad if I've changed jobs and have been DPS the last few runs.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I don't have any from other games, but I do have one from this one: I get way into DPS and forget to heal sometimes. It's especially bad if I've changed jobs and have been DPS the last few runs.

I'm sure a lot of healers can relate. I've been guilty of going nuts with Holy, a time or three.