Marcel is watching A Crap Guide to Final Fantasy XIV – Healers by JoCat, who explains how to heal in Final Fantasy 14. This healer guide helps new players to become a better healer. I can finally become the best healer now!
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For your question on timed boss mechanics, yeah, XIV high end raids and trials (1 off bosses) are full of those. For savage raids and extreme trials, most bosses are a completely set dance of specific mechanics happening at specific times, with a bit of randomization thrown in. And at those difficulties, they generally have a hard set time where they "enrage" and just instant kill the party if you don't kill them within an allotted time. Which is part of why healer damage is so important in high end content, so you can meet those "enrage timers."
No you don't understand regarding Healing taking aggro. The ONLY time healers will steal aggro on healing is if they put HoTs on your tank before your tank pulls. Think about it, before your tank can even land their attack, your heal is already ticking.
Scholar is soooo fun man. Try it. The fact that you can put shield and prevent damage means, you'd be doing more dps
specifically what jocat was talking about for healing generating enmity is a little something called OVER-healing. basically you want to heal people back up, but not quite all the way to full since when their hp is full that extra healing is what generates the enmity. also don't cast a heal until after the tank aquires aggro, otherwise the enemies will target you first, making the tank have to rip the aggro of you
I you are a summoner, you get scholar levels for free anyway.
You can pick astrologian once you start doing heavensward content. I think it starts at 30 so you don't have to level it from lvl1.
One that Video didn't mentioned is Blue Mage healers. After you tried all classes, I suggest picking up Blue Mage. Blue Mage healer spec is just so different from all the classes you get to try and it's really fun. They are basically a walking cheese because they can freeze an enemy, instantly kill everything. Healing is based on how much HP you have. And so on.
Speaking as a white mage main, the best way I've seen healing in ff14 described is that the healer generally is only concerned with the big hits that are either mechanics or special attacks (as basic attacks from enemies, even bosses, are generally low damage). So there is a bit of timing involved to your heals, sure; but honestly I generally just stick a h.o.t. on the tank and ignore them to dps until the h.o.t. either expires (in which case I re-apply it) or isn't enough to keep them at a comfortable level of health (in which case I, unfortunately, have to actually heal 😞).
If you're nervous about healing but would still like to try, my advice is honestly to start with white mage; I feel like they're the most beginner friendly because they've got the most raw healing power (the other classes focus more on barriers and buffs than raw healing) and the class is pretty forgiving when it comes to reaction heals (healing after a big hit happens) vs pre-planning (buffing party members before a hit happens). It definitely helped me be more comfortable with healing!
Although, you're right that scholar and summoner both share exp/level, so that could definitely be an option for you as well. It's up to you and what you feel like your comfort level is!
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You'll enjoy Scholar.
I picked it up recently as my first healer job and having a blast with it. However, I do wish they kept the Arcanist abilities when upgrading. SCH has absolutely zero DPS rotation, so be prepared to put a DoT on the target then mash one button over and over and over to deal damage.
I think Scholar should keep Miasma and Fester from Archanist. I find it's not very often I have spent all the Aetherflow points before the Aetherflow GCD is ready again. Usually I have one point, which I just use to throw out an Energy Drain, even when my MP is fine. I'd rather spend that Aetherflow point on throwing more damage out instead.
Other than that gripe, Scholar is great and it's worth doing the Job Quests for if you're leveling Summoner 👍.
How you approach healing is based on your comfort level and your tank's level of skill as a player. If you have a tank who's nice and strategic with his CDs and manages aggro well and knows to GTFO of AoE tells, you can keep the party alive through massive mob pulls and still be able to pull your weight in DPS. Beyond that it's mostly getting comfortable with your toolset, learning boss moves and how to respond to them, and coming to terms with the fact that no matter how good you do, the tank will get all the Commends.
Healing is simultaneously the easiest and hardest role in the game depending on your teammates skill level.
Please, coming from a healer main don't be afraid to heal. Really the hardest part about healing imo is always targeting, but as long as you have settings that help you out you'll be fine
I wouldn't worry about sage replacing scholar any more than people needed to worry about astrologian replacing any of the older healing classes. They're pretty good about giving every role their place. (And if they don't, they'll fix it.)
the higher-end bosses are all pretty structured, as they always cast their abilities at certain points in the fight (like e12s p2, the two tankbusters always at 3 minutes / 7 minutes 30 seconds) in a particular order. In the same way, every boss (the ones harder than or equal to extreme trials) also have hard enrage, an ability or sequence which will just wipe the group if the boss is not killed until then (mostly between 7-15 minutes, except for ultimate raids), so you can't cheese these bosses with 40+ deaths.