Here are 6 detailed tips for getting better at playing healers in FFXIV! In some cases you can probably apply the tips more broadly to other jobs too! Even if you don’t play healers, you may find knowing these tips helpful for understanding how another player might think!
If you found this video inspiring and now want to start playing a Healer yourself, you could watch my Healer Comparison to get a feel for what you want to try out first:
https://youtu.be/8UcmNNhlvQo
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:16 1) Dealing with Pulls
03:48 2) Healing Efficiently
06:09 3) Attacking as a Healer
08:27 4) Using Cooldowns as necessary
10:33 5) Limit Breaks
13:28 6) Breaking Your Limits
15:18 Fun Fact
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Thanks I have white mage and Sage leveled to 90 thinking about leveling astrologian just have to get ready for the difficulty of the job 😅
I miss the varying sects on AST. It provided so much more versatility to the job that made it quite enjoyable!
i am a guilty HoT enjoyer even when its not the smartest option at times bc GCD.. i gotta learn to prioritize the other oGCD abilities in place of it but god its so comfy and brainless :')
One of the things i see with most astrologians, they use horiscope, but then they do not combo it wit a gcd heal makeing the horoscope stronger, they have 10 seconds to do it, and thwy just dont
No idea if they read a guide telling them that they shouldnt, but even i got yelled at because i made it a stronger version
I only ever healed in dungeons but yesterday I tried doing Unreal as WHM and I gotta say, it took a few pulls for me to get used to using all the tools in my toolbox, where usually just Lily heals and the odd regen were enough. It was surprisingly fun!
good vib
Just a terrific video. Your videos have really encouraged me to get into healing (as a longtime PLD main). Thanks!
As a SGE main, I always have a set rotation for every leg of the two wall-to-wall pulls from boss to boss. Knowing what buttons to press and when makes using Dyskrasia more accessible, because letting tanks get low as a SGE is just a bad time since SGEs are terrible at getting a low HP tank back up. Druchole isn't enough, and you can't eat through addersgall too much because Kerachole and Taurochole already take up two for the pull. Thank goodness for Rhizomata. Which means you have to spend a GCD on healing which should never happen. If this happens, you're doing it wrong.The point being treating shield healers like pure healers leads to bad dungeon experiences, don't do it. Let the WHM and AST play limbo with the tank's HP and be willy-nilly. You need to come in with a healing plan if you want to succeed as a shield healer.
Thank you so much for this guide! As a SCH main just reaching Kugane in the story after a long break I definitely need some guidance…
The most important thing to master as a healer is when to fit in a full snack emote between heals. Healing is hungry work.
1) Glare
2) Dia
3) Glare
4) Heal the entire party so you can get a Blood Lily worth 3 Glares
5) Blood Lily
6) Glare
A healing guide from a content creator that isn't downright wrong on major aspects? Shocking. And a pleasant surprise.
My only real quibble is with excog use. I don't think it's necessarily bad to use outside of combat. The earlier you use it, the sooner it comes off CD again, which could net you an extra use in the upcoming pull. While it might seem like using it too early could be a detriment, it will often net more healing overall.
Great beginner guide overall, though. Really nice to see.
Remember kids GEIFING(as in leting the party die because your pissy tank or healer is against ToS and CAn land you a ban if reported as well as blacklisted don't be THAT player, don't wind up on r/TaslesfromDF
Preach to the emphasis at 7:08
I dislike the guides that apply all emphasis on "never gcd heal, always always damage" as I truly think that's an awful thing to teach new healers.
I get the sentiment, I also get annoyed at the healers casting cure 1 on a tank at 99.7% health and doing no damage — but so many times I see the other end of the spectrum where they'd rather someone die than spend a gcd on healing…. And guess what now they're spending a gcd on res and that person has now lost far more damage than the healer contributed
I'm just glad someone's accentuating this in a guide; generally speaking the people looking for a guide are not the people confident enough to never use a gcd heal. Not to say they won't in the future but I've never agreed with the guides saying that's the only way to play healer
I want white mage to ne able to do DPS by healing.
Thank you for mentioning "wherever the corpses are". That is an information I usually don't see, neither in other guides nor in the wiki.
I once was in P7N with 4 players down. I used my LB3 while the platforms were separated. I saw 3 players die immediately and wondered what attack hit them. Only later I realized I rezzed them above the void.
Remember if the tank dies and you the healer is casting a dps spell, you're in the wrong and fucked up.
Yes i am a healer.
And yes there is sadly lots of idiots watching this and don't get it nor wanna take the responsibility.
14:13 should put this first in vid, pref. 2-3 more times in, lots of fake healer get this order backwards. which is why ive given up tanking randoms.
14:43 ya im one of those tanks, you spank it, you tank it. and if you miss use rescue and pull tank further along it is a reportable offense. let them pull what they feel comfortable with, else go tank yourself.
I love healing….I'm a SGE/SCH main. I do hate it when new tanks pull way too much and you manage to save the party by the skin of your MP only for the tank to think that they are a god and they should do it again…lol I have actually let tanks die the next time they tried it and kept the rest of the group alive, just to try to slap their ego a bit. I only do this on new tanks who you can tell are trying to do what they see on YT.
this is a very good breakdown. The only real recommendation I have is for future videos, try to minimize potential spoilers as stuff like this video is amazing to send to my sprouts that are just learning how to do classes, but I worry about them getting exposed to story spoilers while im trying to help them improve lmao.
I just started learning healer recently and as scholar I remember people telling me I shouldn’t use Adlo before the pull to give shields, it just made sense to me, like I have a shield that negates damage, why not use it BEFORE they take damage so they take less
I feel like I improved a lot as a healer when I started playing as tank, since I started understanding how good my tanks were and how low I could keep their hp before I had to heal them.
As a an added question: for white mages, is it truly okay to just holy spam mobs in a dungeon? I fear stunning enemies might "waste" the tank's mitigation skill (especially arm's lenght) and that the stun resist might prove counter productive in case there are mobs that might need to be stunned. Because of this I mostly stick to aero and stone, but I'm not sure…
Also, I was once told "If the tank dies, it's the healer's fault. If a DPS dies, it's either the tank or the DPS's fault". I don't think this is strictly true, but found it funny anyways.
English is not my native language, so any correction is greatly appreciated!
I capped first as a SCH when i first got through the msq, but i happened to hit cap way before the msq got me there (ty roulettes lol) and i never really "got" healing. I killed my rando parties a bunch by not knowing how to balance what and what, i was just blindly healing and shielding people until we got though it with dps as a after thought. I want to return to healer (i swapped to DRK then PLD cause tanking is easier and less stressful 🤣) but i dont want to go get as many parties killed as i did back then. Great tips lol ty 😊
Thanks for putting stuff in the description too. YouTube's i card thingie seems to break because of the privacy extensions I use… or maybe they don't work in fire fox… or something? Either way I don't see them lmao
I just returned to the game a few weeks ago after being away for two years. Just finished HW yesterday. Exciting. My main is a WHM. I have been doing dungeons to learn how to heal again, and it's scary. It's fun. Like, I enjoy healing more than anything, but it's scary. When shit hits the fan, I often find myself panicking a little and forgetting how or what to cast. I fumble a lot. I play with a controller. Also, I have no idea what any tanks skills are. Playing 100% reactively. One day I'll get better, but it feels like I have too much to learn. So yeah, scary, but fun.
Healing high end is so so rewarding/satisfying <3
I heard sex tips at the beginning
Great Tips! 👍 I feel bad for that one healer that was raised but still died to the wall. Not even the transcendent buff could save them lol