So how do you get into the mindset of being a good healer in an mmo? I've ever really cared to do it before but the astrologian job in ffxiv looks pretty interesting and if I get into it, I don't want to be a total shitter.
The closest I've gotten to that is playing support characters mainly lulu in league when my friend feels like loading it up and playing a couple matches. In this game I've pretty much mainly played machinist and paladin.
>So how do you get into the mindset of being a good healer in an mmo?
Just.. heal? Keep people alive? Want the party to not die? Stop asking stupid questions and just go do it.
>ignore monsters
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Just use a heal every 10 seconds or so and watch something while the other people clear the dungeon for you.
>astrologian
Prepare for disappointment. The rng buffs are literally placebos and have barely any impact the rest of the class is either choosing to be a level 50 white mage or choosing to be a neutered fairyless level 50 scholar.
If you're gonna play healer in FXIV the best mindset to have is to dps whenever you don't have to heal.
FFXIV heavily endorses the idea of dps healers.
I hated healing, I was awful at it. I made it to some poison dungeon as SCH and people kept dying. I just gave up and lost interest in the game.
>I don't want to be a total shitter.
>Astrologian
What? There's no special mindset, you press buttons like everyone else. Some things change depending on the game and possibly classes within the game (for example, one game might make it necessary to conserve mana which involves not casting spells unless someone is about to die so as to maximize your time regenerating mana while others might be very much spammy and in some cases you might even heal your group by doing damage) but ultimately you'll be using your abilities in ways that most benefit the group (like you should be doing with every class/role).
>The rng buffs are literally placebos and have barely any impact
Shit, that was the main reason aside from looking cool I wanted to try it.
>healer
>dps
Are DPS players honestly THAT BAD that they need the healer to do it for them?
Tanks are usually topped off quick, so you're just standing here with your dick in your hand and a full mana bar
And how many times have you yelled at DPS who are doing 60% of what they should be?
Heres the buffs you get:
>balance, 10% damage up
>arrow, 10% attack speed up
>spire, small to refresh
>ewer, small mp refresh
>spear, cooldowns used while this is in effect will have a reduced cooldown timer (its really not that good and mostly a detriment outside of using it on yourself and maybe the tank)
>bole, 10% damage mitigation
Heres the thing though you have three effects you can apply to these cards by using an ability that burns the current card you hold. Depending on the card you burn you get a "buff" that acts as the effect you apply to the next card you use. The effects are:
>expand, reduces cards potency by 50% (so balance would be 5% damage up) but makes the card effect AOE
>extend, doubles duration of card effect
>enhance, increases card potency by 150% (so balance would be 15% damage up)
The shitty thing about this is that its all rng, so you can't consistently give put buffs that would actually help your party (such as aoe balances on 8-mans or enhanced boles), plus you need to royal road a card to make it worth it most of the time so you effectively can only buff the party every one minute IF you are lucky to draw a good combination.
Not only that but some of these royal road effects are fucking useless on certain cards.
Bole and Spear are only worth it with enhanced. Expand is only good with balance and arrow, etc.
On top of that Spire and Spear are almost completely worthless cards, Bole is only good on raids, and Ewer is literaly only helpful to yourself.
Nevermind the buffing aspect thouhh, the healing aspect of it has a shitton of issues. Having the worst healer dps also causes it problems.
The better the dps the more dps you can do yourself, ast shitter.
Healers dps in XIV regardless of your partys performance. Your dps can be fucking gods and you would still be expected to dps as a healer, even astrologian or white mage. Fucking deal with it or quit the game for something more casual.
>expected to dps
lol no in real content you're expected to heal, and in shitter content who gives a fuck.
Try Scholar.
They are the most active dps healer out of the three and their focus is damage prevention/utility rather than straight up healing. You also get an attack speed buff that your fairy can apply every 1 minute, its similar to astrologians excet that its more consistent at the cost of being slightly weaker (3% attack speed vs 5%).
Even In real content even the main healer is expected to dps a little.
Just give up, nobody is going to agree with your trash opinions. Not even the devs.
Eh, I really only cared about ast, and it they're THAT shit in application (and I mean in how their buffs work; I'm aware of the gambling aspect of it and was fine with that, hell I love a little RNGesus), then I'm just going to keep focusing on getting better with mch
Reminder that the conjurer questline is literally about teaching a conjurer that healing is not the only thing that there is to the class.
lol doesn't matter what you or the devs say. I'll just continue to set my fairy to heal and watch Dexter while you're all killing monsters for the billionth time.
Thanks for the tomes :)
>get vote dismiss for afk
Sasuga
Implying I won't kick you at the last boss ;)
lol never happened and been playing for over a year but sure have fun with your revenge fantasy :)
kek even if there was a kick, just instantly get in another group and have them clear it.
>doing "dungeons" while afk is fun
Okay have fun paying for a $12 subscription fee for a game you're not acually playing.
>tomes
You're not going to succeed afk healing a dungeon at high levels user.
Nice bait though.
Healer is truly a shitter job, they're even proud of it.
oh noooo I have to heal every 20 seconds while my fairy does most of the work... how horrible.
The best thing is that sometimes people do speak up and I go "Why should I do your job? if you want a healer to dps so bad you should've queued for it." and they either keep being a sperg or they just leave and are instantly replaced by someone who won't bitch. Teehee.
Astrologian is great, lots more fun than WHM, just play it if you enjoy it, the cards are amazing. Scholar is OP though, but as AST you're gonna be main healer anyway.
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-Learn to triage. It's not as important to heal the DPS that's at 20% if the tank is at 50% and is about to get hit by a tank-buster.
-In FFXIV you will be expected to DPS as a healer. Get used to the idea of not having everyone capped on HP.
-Learn not to care. Your job is to heal as best as you can without letting other people die. By that I mean that you can't dump all your mana in to the dps that's standing in the fire if it means you won't be able to heal everyone else in the party. This is also part of triage. Sometimes you're going to have to let somebody die so the rest of the group can live. It doesn't make you a bad healer, it makes them a bad player.