I survived 100 days in Final Fantasy 14!! This is my 100 day experience of Final Fantasy 14 : A Realm Reborn. I am speechless at this MMORPG’s ability to capture my heart. Thank you, Final Fantasy 14, community, and friends
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00:00 – INTRO
02:00 – PROGRESSION
05:00 – CHARACTER CREATION
07:45 – FAILURE
10:00 – HOUSING
11:20 – ODIN & DIABOLOS
14:10 – THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
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As someone who mains healer in this game, I’ll say that the mindset for it is drastically different from either dps or tank. Healer requires much much more active decision making with how best to keep yourself and your team alive, and at a higher proficiency level, how to best balance doing damage and gcd healing. It’s certainly a hard balance to get the hang of unless you tend to be naturally predisposed to it through tangentially similar styles of play in other games. It’s completely understandable that it stressed you all things considered and I hope you can one day get a handle on it.
Ellyon sent me here lol
Glad you're loving this game the same as so many of us do. Ffxiv is just an immense experience and only gets better the further you go.
Congratz on 100 days! Looking forward to 200 :smug:
Honestly, healing can be very stressful. Don't let it worry ya. There's always plenty of us to heal for you until yer ready.
wholesome video. glad you're having such a great time 😀
Healing in lower level dungeons could really be stressful if you don't have the experience of it yet. Even as max level healer, things could be tricky when I get queued into lower level dungeons. Skills are locked and suddenly you are thrown into a different pattern. The pulling can be a bit overhwelming at first because it would require you to just focus heal on the tank while you clear out the mobs. But don't worry about this yet, I can confidently tell you that when you reach end game, healing can be the fun you are looking for. Additionally, healer queues are the fastest in the game so you don't have to wait long for dailies. So just have fun with another class for now, in time eventually, you will have to level healers if you want to be a mentor xD
One of my mains is healer(My main is Samurai) and White Mage stresses me out. I've capped all the healer jobs and Scholar resonates with me the most because I prefer being a shield healer rather than reactive because I can just preload a shield or fairy heals on people when I see something coming instead of scrambling to restore health that's already gone. Plus my fairy is like a permanent heal over time. The healing experience is different on different jobs. So maybe White Mage just isn't for you, like it isn't for me.
Healer is not for me either lol I love tank though. Just the right amount of stress and responsibility with the perk of tank privilege.
Early healing is tricky because you don’t start off with a full deck of cards to play, but as you get used to the job and more used to healing, it is genuinely VERY peaceful. Naturally there are moments where luck is against you, or the party doesn’t seem to be working with you, but it starts stressful with one healer and translates to confidence with all of them. Keep at it, and people, especially for sprouts, are very understanding of being new to the game.
As someone who learned how to heal back in WoW's Cataclysm expansion, I think my perspective is that experienced healers tend to learn to simply not stress out when people are taking damage. It's something similar to how a dps plans out their next attack in the rotation. Once you've done it a number of times it becomes more and more second nature. When you see someone take an avoidable hit, you may not have planned for it but with experience you just go through your options and use the cooldown or heal that makes the most sense. If someone dies, you take a moment to check the Raise situation and if needed you (hopefully Swiftcast) bring them back. There's definitely a lot of decision making going on behind the scenes that you might not have in other roles but it genuinely does get easier when you gain more cooldowns and experience using them. Particularly the oGCD ones. Eventually you get to the point where you are playing the Shield healers and can predict when people will take damage and prevent most of it in the first place.
I like how much you discussed the experiences that felt rewarding for you, as I would compare those to this – when you learn fights inside and out to the point you can save people from both the boss and themselves, you do end up feeling like a god. Healer complex is real. Just try to not get to the point like some healers do where someone does something dumb and kills themselves and it becomes a personal slight for daring to die when you did nothing wrong.
I would suggest watching JoCat's guides for a humorous (but mostly accurate) take on the various roles and how to play them.
For healing, you are balancing DPS output with keeping your party alive. When starting out, most of the focus stays on keeping hp bars up, but as you get familiar with dungeons and how tanks and dps play – you will find your balance between dealing damage and keeping your party alive