Actually I treated it no different from back then, in fact I was nuking more on my Whm now than I was back then and I'm more bored because it is way simpler, I remember actually doing Aero 1, aero 2, stoneskins, bigger mp management, Virus at key points, wanting people stacked for cure 3 during staff and much more that warranted an simpler design in fights, now however it is a simple fight with simple jobs and it is increadibly boring, I had more fun with the new dungeon than I did this Unreal at least as a healer, Dnc it was ok but it is rare I get to go so ham on aoes in non dungeons.

The fight was designed with a completely different kit available and it shows how badly these old fights need those kits back, cleric stance removal is the biggest offender to this fight, the design of the fight heavily punishes mis-timed cleric stance but that no longer exists and the dmg has not be scaled up enough to compensate that loss.

Asylum is up every time she switches from Bow to random staff/sword, party is covered with 1 Lily if co healer has no ogcds available, tank gets Benison going into Bow phase and medica 2 up if staff, all the extra healing tools just make me do spam more, will say this Whm is king here, Holy stun on adds trivializes the entire add phase so much, and truly begs the question why was Ast's stun removed.


TLDR Overall the fight is Shiva Ex no different just get to use full lv80 kit but because healers are so radically different from the design of ARR/HW healers the fight suffers majorly.