Talliah makes a list of the bad habits that make the worst white mages ever in FFXIV.
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I always forget to use my thin air for high mana consuming spells.
I am very happy to see you again. i hope you have been well.
Huh, white mage needs DPS?
No way
My life was a lie all along
I'm not THE WORST White mage because i only JUST RETURNED to white mage after 4 years lol, I prefer SAGE but i'm SO PROUD OF MYSELF for going BACK to it – and there's so much cool shit to WHM, that i can't sit there anymore and go "I don't like it" — I'm just a bit more confident as Sage, but at least i'm learning that — AS MUCH AS PEOPLE HATE MACROS — having a silly but SHORT macro makes some great friends. 😀
However a good one: You're a bad player if you're botting. XD
IDGAF if you're an FFLOGS user, if you're a DPS tracker or you use "HEY IM USING RESHADE" and other "fight club" resouces XD — those aren't a big deal to me — it's the "Unknown 01" players i keep seeing in Prae XD the "Only auto attacks" players…
Step back t oyour keyboard, DO YOUR BEST, i find it so sad when people unsync first time content without at least trying ti once XD — i'm guilty of doign that because hocrap, i'm not going to sit there and slog through Bahamut synced XD — and also at times the Alexander raids are a nightmare when nobdoy wants to prog them– but IF YOU CAN prog stuff synced, do it! Today i only unsynced something because literally .. my partner and i had already bene through this one like 10 times its THEIR personal fave, and they just got their GNB to 88 today — and they unsynced Ktsis with Hermes – and then we did a normal run after XD
We're back!!!!❤
Art of War is a gain on two…wait, wrong job. XD #SCH
Yay!! Glad you're back! and you're 100% right, you can't help anyone if you're dead and that's the most important advice for every job in the game.
"There's always that one person in 24 raids who you raise, they die, you raise, they die…"
Me, sitting in back row: sheepishly raises hand
(Literally two days ago in Weeping City)
nods in SGE dishing out DPS that is a portion of my heals Former Azerothian, here. Thank you for reminding me why I'm a Sage and not a White Mage. Sometimes I really do miss those old WoW mechanics and five man parties….
You missed the single biggest way to be the worst white mage ever. Spamming cure 1 non stop because you are a bot, or spamming cure 1 for those freecure procs. Nothing gets worse than that.
I'm the worst white mage because I play AST on controller! X3
You might be the worst WHM if you are not providing BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILY!
I love your ffxiv posts about healers it feels so cozy to watch.
Using Holy in the middle of a W2W Pull. Wait until the train stops gdi.
While lvling red mage, ive learned that there are some healers that dont raise while im there…..creating a level of hatred i never thought possible…..
Holy is your single best mit for trash pulls. It's not even about dps. Stun removes all damage for half the pull if your dps are good
Plenary Indulgence is your friend, use it often.
Do not be afraid to cast Medica II and just like, let it go. It has a HoT for a reason. It will heal all that chip damage and you do not need to immediately heal everyone to full because you aren't likely to get hit by a raid-wide mechanic immediately, DPS instead!
For big pulls stack your HoTs! Even if they're AoE and the rest of the party doesn't need them, stacking Medica II/Regen/Asylum, especially after the Stun from Holy stops working, is a very effective way of keeping your tank alive while keeping up your own damage without you needing to constantly babysit them with GCDs.
Don't be stingy with Lilies, if you are capped and your current trash pull/boss fight is about to end just toss one out, even if it's just for chip damage. Hell, if you know you're gonna hit a boss in a second just unload all of them so you have a Afflatus Misery ready for opening bursts.
Be careful with Aetherial Shift! I know it's very fun and satisfying to use, but like most dashes in the game, shenanigans can ensue if you aren't careful.
Aquaveil is amazing, please use it, pair it with Divine Benison.
If you MUST use Cure III for anything, pair it with a Thin Air if dying isn't an issue with your party and the fight is claustrophobic. It can be a good alternative to popping a Medica II if you know everyone is going to be fine for a decent chunk of time.
Much like with Benediction, don't be afraid to use Temperance or Liturgy of the Bell either! If you know a raidwide mechanic is going to happen, pop Temperance! If you just need a giant aoe heal, pop Liturgy! You can set it off basically immediately and there is no shame in using it as a recovery tool.
Dont need to tell me, i already know im a trash healer and i wear that badge with pride
controversial to deal damage in the game where everyone's meant to deal damage?
I mean yeah focus on healing first, but you can let people get to half HP (at LEAST) during a boss fight before there's a threat of them dying, and the dev team's already outright stated that healers are encouraged to be dealing damage in their down time (which can be frequent if everyone's playing well)
Basically…. If no one's significantly hurt, apply a dot, chuck out your single target damage spell as often as you can while the dots up, use lucid dreaming on cooldown if you need to, you'll be FINE trust me
Not using Regen from lvl 35 onwards is a sin for WHM players. It's around 900 potency and probably the best GCD heal per cost in their kit. Regen and DPS spam with OGCDs to top off heals is all you need. Cure 1 and 2 are practically dead to me in regular content.
We didnt cover my qualifying feature for why I'm the worst white mage. I'm just really really bad at the game and exist purely in a state of constant anxiety and immediately forget all aspects of every fight I've been in and fixate purelg on the health bars and how they're not full and they're definitely going to hit 0 look how they keep getting closer jesus christ the regens aren't enough how do people do this we're all gonna die they're gonna yell at me I'm awful I'm wasting their time and their money why did i queue as healer what am i doing
This goes on like this for a while. I'm not a good healer brained person.
That is one bouncy cat
I enjoy letting people get super low on HP, when they stand in the enemies attacks. The best way to help, is to let people realize their mistakes. besides, as healers it isn't our job to keep everybody topped off. Our job is to juggle not letting people die, while also contributing as much to the fight as possible. Be it to the party's dps, mechanics, saving people, or anything else.
2 great examples of this are that the devs keep trying to tell players that healers are suppose to dps with everyone else, on top of doing healing, the other is JoCat, depite it being satire, he made multiple basic guides on how to do jobs, that is pretty informative to show people.
Oh also I agree with the Holy spam on wall to wall pulls, it is so fun, and it really helps everybody, it keeps enemies stun locked for a few seconds, which means melee don't have to worry about the enemies moving out of the melee's positionals or attack range, and melee don't have to run away or tank a bunch of AOEs, and it means WHM has to do less healing lol. Overall Joly spam means less frustration for everybody. Although that is assuming there are at least 4 mobs in the pull XD. Just isn't worth using on 3 or less imo.
I am the worst White Mage because it just so happens that I am a Black Mage B)
stop free cure fishing!
As a paladin main, I got a tip: The mobs stop moving when I stop moving. Stop holying them before that. Stop putting asylum down early. Pay attention to your tank.
No video in 8 months and you just pop in my feed just to call me out? 😂😂😂
Benediction is my designated “I just rezzed someone and am too lazy to waste a GCD properly healing them” spell.
You might be the worst WHM if you: spam Cure I in the hopes of a Cure II proc…
For those who want it. WHM checklist
ABC (Always be Casting and the majority of this should be Glare! Aim for a 70/30 ratio of dps/heal)
You have a lot of damage spells in Misery, assize and the new presence of mind combo. Always keep up Dia, and use these! time them in coordinance with the 2 Minute window
In terms of healing, never medica spam. You have a lot of high heal output abilities such as Lilybell, Wings, Divine Caress and more. All of these dont cost mana and are your best tools (Also rapture is amazing but costs a Lily)
USE THIN AIR! As a Scholar main, i see this as Whms 2nd best tool (behind Bene). FOR GODS SAKE, USE IT! And dont save them for raises! A thin air on a cure 3 is saving you 1500 mana (15% of your mana!)
Finally, WHM excels at single target heals. Benediction, regen, divine beneson, Cure 2, afflatus solace, aquaveil etc. Id save these for your tanks, especially after busters or a top up
Thank you for reading 🙂 (Disclaimer, i am a scholar main and so some things might not be right. If not, whilst remaining civil, correct me in the comments <3)
I'm awful at resource management: I see a party-wide damage, here it comes Medica III, the tank is low HP? Throw a regen 1st but better Medica III, just in case.
The big problem I have is that I have 1000 hours in the game, I even main WHM, but I only play under level 60 dungeons. So, I barely know that lilies exists, I never needed Thin Air, and I barely ever needed a Benediction or Tetragrammaton.
But I'm slowly improving, at least I'm good in using Assize and Asylum at Cooldown.
"You're not worst whm in the game, you're the worst player in the game"
What a way to start a video.
Keeping party alive > hard cast rez(advice for all healers)
Benediction is overrated on endgame, keep it for situations where someone needs to be saved…
(a tank shouldn't need it after invuln, especially drk…)
Oh hey i do damage, i might not be the worst. I know stone, holy, and medica 2 o7
It's been 84 years. Meme aside, to any aspiring white mages seeing this. You are either complicating things or not complicating them enough. The worst white mage is one that gives up without trying to learn.
you might be able to fix this WHM but can you fix my BLM 😮