Help with beginner Ast

[OcieKo]

I actually don't have Lucid Dreaming since it says it affects Emnity (I thought that was Agro? Still learning a lot of the terms in the game) I didn't know it could help with MP so I'll swap out Swiftcast for it for now. ANd yea, I was thinking it was a 0 cost >_<.

I will get this, I really love the idea of Ast and it feels fun, just got to get the MP thing down =)

Yes, Lucid Dreaming also affects Enmity which is aggro. In this case it reduces enmity, I wanna say its halves current, or did it take the reduces generated from the original AST skill for it.

Do you have any patch notes and/or research on this particular change? I don't recall ever reading about any changes since this research was done back in June 2015.

I'll try to find the right patch note for it. Can't remember if it's in late 3.X or the 4.X series.
Will take more time looking for it, so grain of salt for now. Nearly positive they brought up where it caps out at above 1% like it originally was, worst comes to worst ill just have to manually run the test.

[Rongway]

Yes, Lucid Dreaming also affects Enmity which is aggro. In this case it reduces enmity, I wanna say its halves current, or did it take the reduces generated from the original AST skill for it.

It's drops your enmity down to ever so slightly above half.
Unimportant in practice, it drops you to 50%, but then adds a small fixed amount of enmity like any action that grants a self buff.

The deleted pre-Stormblood ability Luminiferous Aether was an enmity suppressor instead.

[Aikeiko]

After a day away from the game (Had RL things to do -_-) I decided to heal some more dungeons. Did fine in normal dungeons, but I once again got...Titan..and again I had severe mana issues. I tried only using the AB only on the tank after a Bene, and then used Bene 1 to try an keep the group topped off (Along with the AoE heal, not online and I can't remember its name =( ). I also never got an MP card =(.

Is this fight just really intensive? Or am I doing something massively wrong on it? I seem to do OK in the normal dungeons, but once I get Titan it's all over...I even did fine on Ifrit when I was getting that one.

Also could it be a gear issue? My Ast is only item level 27 at level 45.

[Ghishlain]

Unfortunately, unless you've played Final Fantasy XI to some degree, very few players will be able to tell that Lucid Dreaming has a MP regeneration. Refresh was a spell in Final Fantasy XI which allowed the target to restore MP outside of their normal MP regeneration cycle and the XIV development team decided to reuse this term here. Lucid Dreaming says "Refresh Potency: 80" on it so those familiar with how FFXI work would instantly ping to that, but unfortunately the vast majority of players won't have that experience ^^; There are quite a few complaints about that so don't feel bad that you missed it as most people did miss it themselves.

I would recommend keeping Lucid Dreaming up on all your healer's role actions and keep Swiftcast as well. Swiftcast and Lucid Dreaming are considered the mandatory selections for the role selections.

Happy healing

[EaMett]

yeah like Ghishlain said. Swiftcast and Lucid should be two role skills you keep no matter what.

[MoroMurasaki]

As an AST still learning I would take Protect, Swiftcast, Lucid Dreaming and Esuna then when you get your fifth slot at 48 put Largresse there.

I think the addition of Lucid Dreaming and getting some better gear (I personally don't like to get further than 6 levels under my current level while leveling) will make Titan a breeze. I'd reccomend using Lucid around 70% mp and then more or less on CD from there.

[Aikeiko]

Thanks, you've all been so helpful =D. Got her up to 50 and got the gear from the little box so now I get to do the 50 dungeons. I did have one issue in a dungeon I was new to where a tank ran so far ahead I wasn't able to keep up and keep him alive, but after he left and we three manned the first boss, the next tank didn't go so badly.

[Ghishlain]

Thanks, you've all been so helpful =D. Got her up to 50 and got the gear from the little box so now I get to do the 50 dungeons. I did have one issue in a dungeon I was new to where a tank ran so far ahead I wasn't able to keep up and keep him alive, but after he left and we three manned the first boss, the next tank didn't go so badly.

You'll find that a more often than naught many tanks will do the community defined "speed run pulls" and expect everyone to follow suit. You can generally use Sprint to keep up and should try to match the tank's sprint with your own so you can keep up. I also find if you can indicate quickly at the beginning that you're new to the dungeon or even just new to the dungeon as a healer, it can let the tank know that they might need to take it easier.

[OcieKo]

Thanks, you've all been so helpful =D. Got her up to 50 and got the gear from the little box so now I get to do the 50 dungeons. I did have one issue in a dungeon I was new to where a tank ran so far ahead I wasn't able to keep up and keep him alive, but after he left and we three manned the first boss, the next tank didn't go so badly.

Bad tanks will be bad tanks. Some people really should never queue without a premade. Hopefully youll find more tanks who gradually increase pulls to see what you can handle.