A question about healing!

[Risvertasashi]

Hello =D I was wanting to try healing, but I was told that I needed to be able to dps and heal at the same time, which kind of makes me nervous, especially in higher dungeons. I was also wondering when I should use Cure 2 over Cure on my White Mage (I don't have the healer I want yet, Astrologian)

I would suggest that you don't try to "force" DPS.

You'll notice, if you only heal, you'll end up sitting there for periods of time doing nothing. This is a good time to pop some Holy's (Or Gravities, when you get Astro). If you don't have the AoE yet, then just stone is fine.

Now at higher levels of play, you can use your abilities to squeeze DPS out of situations that at first don't seem possible. And that's cool, but my advice is to get walking down before you run. When you have nothing to do, fill in with DPS, for now. As you get more confidence in this, then try pushing your limits.

Good luck!

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edit: There's one thing I kind of want to set straight. People seem to be thinking that how WHM plays at low level is now somehow the same as how it plays at max level.

It isn't. Your MP is not effectively infinite or even close at lower levels.

You can still probably use cure 2 over cure 1 most of the time. But if your MP gauge does start getting a bit low - and a medica 2 into a few cure 2s can do that - then you might wish to revert to cure 1 until Lucid Dreaming is available again.

The reasons some people are saying this is because WHM has a number of tools that give it good (but still not effectively infinite...) MP at max level, but you won't have these yet unless you're close.