Time for the Healers! Easily the most underappreciated jobs if I say so myself, and I’m a tank main! But this one was a lot of fun to put together! I do look forward to finally being able to do a deep dive on Sage one day! But either way, I hope you all are having an amazing week and that this video might make it even better!
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Baby AST here, not good at optimizing healing as AST (and most of my Duty Finder parties love to W2W apparently) so Synastry and praying really, really hard has saved my party's butt multiple times from spicy pulls. I don't wanna rely on it, but it's looking mighty tempting as I start Shadowbringers dungeons…
I love this little series you have going on. One of my characters is a WHM because she wanted to use it to protect those close to her. Now I can't wait for the caster one as a SMN main
The only reason I have synastry on my hotbar is because there will always be that one tank stupid enough to pull all the dungeon mobs while their mitigation is down.
Doesn't help much, but at least you can't say I wasn't trying when the entire party becomes spaghetti!
I was looking forward to this but I don't really understand as a Whitemage main what my main says about me. All the other ones had that "what it says about you" at the end
Wait… ARE there any Astrologians in Old Sharlayan in game?
The brief topic of Scholar being lore accurate. It works on many levels, military Strategy against the Empire and the Ascians. It work for the combat as scholars weave aether into many complex patterns and studying the patterns of the primals and other beings of mass aether. All the more as defensive magicks require restructure and refinement against the unique aether signatures. This is also evident in the names of the Codexes given to Scholar. Such as Tetrabiblos, Akademia, Etc.
8:21 well technically astrologian is the busiest healer class atm with the cards, stickers, crowns, along with lightspeed
it's crazy how Ast felt almost like dps to me, well most of the time you are going to spam one button but then cards appears, you need to target your teammate, play the card, while spamming one button at the same time
that being said they are going to have some change on next big update, probably on november
i dont know, ast doesnt seem like a popular healer atm because probably it has busy gameplay compared to other healer
hopefully they will get more popular after the update
How dare you! Not only do I have Synastry on my hotbar, but I've also used it by accident at least once this month!
I really like how you do these, its not what it says about YOU the player in entirety like others. its also what it says about your WoL and you include lore and extra tid bits. makes it a lot more insightful. Thank you for the video!
I do love the healer lore, been a healer main since the beggining of my own journey. I was always a White Mage but have learnt to love Scholar and Sage too. I think moving forward a Sage would be my main, I do love that aspect of them being actually learning biology, being true healers. Having the answer when magic isn't the right choice, but knowing just how to use it when it is. Knowledge and Wisdom made manifest with the desire to help the world with more then just a brief flash of the arcane, but lasdting change through new treatments and the spread of knowledge.
I hope the next healer is some variation of Witch Doctor. Either from the New World or Mericidia
I'm a WHM main. A duskwight WHM, Gridania thinks I shouldn't exist considering the history.
Also an AST boomer who misses his cards. It's also hard to play on controller now with the button bloat.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up the emotional aspect of Sage. To heal and to harm. To want to save lives but have known the pain of losing someone. A Sage knows they've failed before but still has to have the will to try.
And slash pay respects to our brave knight…..he had guts to protect us. I laugh through the pain.
Love how I started in HW with mch as my main and gun mage jokes return with my main healer. But I mostly make Gundam jokes. My phone alert is Newtype flash for a reason.
But wasn't it mentioned in the AST Questline that Ishgardian Astrology is just observation of the Dragon Star and that they cannot even cast magic?
There are quests where you heal knights and it is mentioned how surprising it is for them that an Astrologian can do that.
So, fun little fact:
The way SGE works in FFXIV may not be how it works in previous Final Fantasy games, but it IS consistent with how the Spiritmaster works in another Square Enix property: Bravely Default.
In BD, the Spiritmaster is a powerful healer with a medical doctor/surgeon theme that enacts its healing through preventative measures and powerful barriers. What really sells the homage however, is the Spiritmaster's name in the Japanese version of Bravely Default:
Sage.
Speaking of heal memes, my favorite is still that dude who died in one hit and yelled "where were the 'eals!?"
Ya know, I kinda get why they consolidated similar actions from different jobs into role actions like esuna and low blow, but I'm still kinda disappointed that that little bit of distinction was taken out.
Hey don't knock vore Scribe. Sometimes it solves complex problems, like for instance, resolving conflicts of culture between two peoples around year 300 of the 6th Astral Era
cough*Shiva*cough
Really loved the lore behind sage combining magic and medicine perfect job for my plague doctor glam and my main healer now
WHM main, but I also like Scholar. Astro… I am a mid Astro feeling bad about my lack of shield. I used to be able to suit my party better. I also dabbled in it when the cards were more unique
WHM here and I play the "I'm too old for this crap" kind of healer. Seasoned, withered, but still powerful. I find it annoying WHM lost the elemental spells because it simply erased all the job progression we had from the beggining of the game til we reach WHM and beyond. That aside, I really wish WHM had a "bonk" emote so we could hit people with out staffs to show disaproval.
I omniclass but my most consistent class I default to is a SCH. That being said – I've lost count of how many times Synastry helped me keep a suicidal tank alive, how dare.
Healer… Remind me what that is. Last time I checked, TOP Ultimate was cleared by 5 red DPS and 3 blue DPS. There's only DPS. Jokes (and facts, some players really cleared TOP Ultimate like that) aside, I didn't level up any healer so far. They are all still at level 1 or not even unlocked. I just didn't have the time to do that so far.
You forgot a joke that Sage’s Noulits are Fin Funnels from Mobile Suit Gundam series.
I love maining astrologian, hope they make the cards more interesting again.
Can confirm that AST players are annoyed by everything the dev team does with the job. And yes I will be annoyed if Synastry gets removed. Even if it is a niche button, it is a still a button, AND STOP TAKING AWAY BUTTONS WHEN OUR CHARACTERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING STRONGER! This is hardly healer exclusive, but it feels like Shadowbringers and Endwalker both took away more things from each job than they gave, and healers got the worst of it since they have always had the least in the first place.
Synastry is useful boruto cry face
My main WoL is a SCH main because, well. I was really inspired by Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening in the character creation process and the thought of a canonical battle strategist was fun for me. He serves as the 'raid lead' for the party of my Alt-WoLs and he loves being given the chance to provide strategic input by NPCs in the MSQ.
And I've flavored his SCH main status into other classes he's taken up over the years. Using math and arcanima to calculate the precise positioning needed for Jumps, for instance.
It's true that SCH excels in proactive play, even if they don't necessarily think tactically. The more you understand the flow of fights in FFXIV and what typical "tells" bosses have and how they've worked in past encounters prepares you for being a better SCH even in a brand new encounter. "Fights like this typically start with a raid wide so I'm going to critlo the tank and deploy it to everyone else" or "This enemy is a remodel of this other boss from an earlier encounter, so this move should require everyone to stack" etc.
Dr Light sounds almost as cool as Dr Warrior of Light
blood for the blood lily
As a Sage enthusiast, I am driven by some key things.
Lasers and powerful barrier shields.