I'm very glad that YT suggested you to me. Finally a guide person who is easy to understand, still funny and not a WHM hater ;-; My FC did yearbook like profiles and my quote is "Assize, purely for DPS"
Thank you for always having well made subtitles to your videos! I have a lot of hearing issues and it's nice to be able to understand fully what is being said and the tone as well! \o/
i am so sorry that i've gotten a bit lazier with them in more recent videos... they are a pain to sync up, so i've kinda handed it over to YT's auto-captions, but this is actually a good motivator to get back on the ball and make sure i write them manually again glad they help :)
Bro this is by far the best voiced, most well scripted, and most informative class guide I've ever seen. A lot of these tips are super useful too. The divine benison emnity one? Never thought of it. You deserve way more subs, bro, keep it up.
Perfect Tutorial. This is exactly how WHM is supposed to be played in dungeons. If your group does dmg and the tank knows how to use mitigations, you will never have to cast a GCD Heal (besides the lilys) ever. Thanks for the video! Hope more people will see you and your guides and we will have less cure-spamming lvl 90 whms in the future
Thank you for the endorsement! :D I love how much healers change as they learn the role. People coming from other MMOs or even just plain new to healing can't necessarily be BLAMED for wanting to do more GCD healing than is necessary, especially if they don't really yet "get" how FFXIV damage works (bursty rather than constant), but it's something that should ideally be "unlearned" for sure. PS - Never mind cutting Cure spam entirely, I'd settle for just not seeing Cure 1!
@@specstreTV might have been more annoyed than needed to be, after some atrocious expert runs xD sorry for that. You are right of course, everybody starts ffxiv with different levels of knowlegde and there are games out there that have the healer role in a group, that is really only supposed to keep the group alive. I think my biggest problem is not that there are cure (1) spamming whms - its more that you really notice that they didnt even try to put in the effort to learn the job at least on a basic level. I love helping sprouts out, when i notice them being actually attentive and interested in advice. And its amazing seeing them succeed a dungeon or trial afterwards. I am really talking high level stuff and people who are done with the story and still only use like 20% of their kit. Without getting into the problem of buying level-skips, that is a story in and of itself. But going all 90 levels without reading what your new skills do just baffles be. I have actually met so many whm in 90 content, that never even used their ogcd heals, as though they dont exist xD So, i just wanna see people put in a tiny bit of work. And with videos like yours, it's really really easy to see the overall picture of healers in ffxiv. So thumbs up to you again, specstre! ;)
I just stumbled upon this video and honestly? Did I need it? No, did I thouroughly enjoy it? 100% keep making videos your voice is super peaceful and nice!
It makes me happy to see another jump-spin-DoT-spinback player~ It's rare I come across WHM guides that mention just about everything we'll be doing, general priorities and all. Absolutely love this video, thank you for it! I don't think there's much to add here for dungeons outside of extra niche bits that are often dungeon specific. I guess a few small ones for the readers here: --If you play other healers primarily, you may not be aware that Holy's radius is actually 8y and not 5y. You can often hit the majority of mobs when on the edge of standard-AoEs. Take advantage of its larger AoE! This has some application in certain 8 man content as well. --Lilybell is often extra-superfluous for dungeon healing at 90, but don't feel bad using it in trash if your tank needs an extra boost. Can push a lily use from in-combat to out-of-combat. If you feel like it can sometimes stand in DoT fields solely to heal the tank more. --If it REALLY COMES DOWN TO IT, Medica II at 85+ is straight up stronger than Cure 2 pending the pull lasts 4 server ticks longer and the tank doesn't need the Cure 2 burst. Pair it with PI and it's superior after 3 ticks. It's superior pre-85 with PI as well. Very minor difference for dungeons, but a difference all the same. I pray you never find yourself in a situation where you're actively considering this difference in normal mode content. But rare as they are, very special groups DO pop up now and then~ --8 Man addendum: Likewise, Medica 2 is often a superior choice over Cure2/Regen for two-tank fights if they are taking significant damage. And, likewise, Rapture or PI+Rapture is often a better use of a lily if healing two-tank damage. Burst heal if needed, but otherwise your HoTs and Rapture put in a good amount of work. -Also two tank - PI Cure 3 is equivalent to Cure 2 and can be used to quickly top off two vuln-happy tanks. Again these are...pretty minor small things especially for dungeon content. Of course, as many are aware you want to minimize your non-lily GCD healing, but when the situation arises that you've gotta grit your teeth and go at it - minor things like this can help a tiny bit.
Thank you so much for the compliment! :D These are all excellent tips for optimizing WHM gameplay-Medica 2, when allowed to do its job, really is a great tool (at least, like you said, if it's come down to GCD heals). Great thoughts!!
This is a really amazing video full of A+ advice, I main WHM, it's honestly my favourite job, and if you're new to healing I recommend picking it up as it's a very good kit to onboard you into balancing DPS and Healing. I saw someone in the comments mention Plenary Indulgence, and no lie, that's one of the first things I tell people to use once they get it at lvl 70. It often gets overlooked but it has great utility. It's paired with Cure 3, Medica 2, and Rapture. Lasts 10 seconds, but it boosts the HP recovery of those tools with 200 cure potency, which is amazing when there's a lot of incoming AoE damage you need to heal through. Really helps with large pack pulls when you don't have access to Temperance (lvl 80). It's also A+ when progging new content, giving your MP more mileage as everyone perishes through the learning curve ;3 One thing to note on the Blood Lily, is don't be tempted to spam your Rapture/Solace JUST to proc it. It's a DPS loss over casting Glare. Like Specstre mentions in the video, use 1 to 2 during the down-time between pulls so you don't overcap. But during actual combat, trying to force a Blood Lily is a damage loss. Your Blood Lily will generate very fast if you're prioritising Lilies for healing over Cure 2. They also generate much faster now at 20 seconds per lily (used to be 30 seconds).
Plenary Indulgence (which I lazily usually just shorthand to Confession and often forget the actual name of...) is absolutely a game changer. Once you get comfortable using it (and knowing when), it really does dramatically increase your healing throughput. Confession + 2 Raptures pretty much tops the entire raid! Regarding Blood Lily - yes, good point that farming Lilies in AoE is not ideal and it's much better to use them between packs in dungeons, though technically, Misery IS DPS neutral on single target ever since they buffed it to 1,240 potency (310 + 310 + 310 + 310 =1,240, so it crosses out the 4 lost glares). There's also some egghead math about Misery being a GAIN over 4 Glares inside raid buffs, but again, that's a little deeper. Either way, great comment, ty so much! :D
I main White Mage and there was some helpful information in there. First, there's the reminder to use Assize whenever possible, and to look for opportunities to use Presence of Mind ... or just remembering it exists and using it whenever. Also, I assumed that Asylum just applied a HoT to everyone inside; I overlooked the 10% increase to all healing received, so thanks for making me aware of that. 👍 Another thing I found useful was loading my crossbar with all the spells, including the ones I haven't learned yet. That way, I get to figure out where everything goes in advance, so I'm not potentially moving stuff around and having to retrain my muscle memory whenever I learn some new spells.
Awesome, glad it helped! :D And very good idea about pre-setting up your bars; anytime I pick up a new job or a new one comes out, I love to do that. Gets you thinking about how things will string together at endgame, too, and gives you things to look forward to!
As a new white mage, this is so helpful! I’ve been looking for guidance on how to play this job… thank you for covering the options and how to use the rotation! Really enjoyed your reframing certain skills as DPS with healing just as a side note and your explanation helped me understand lilies much more Thank you!! Would definitely enjoy more healing content because I’m planning on leveling up WHM, AST and Sage
this one is your best video yet, i am looking forward to the next video also sidenote the baka mitai at the start jumpscared me i thought it was playing from my spotify and i was so confused
This is some amazing content! I recently started my FFXIV journey and was looking for some good FFXIV channels, and on top of that I think you helped me find my main healer class! Keep up the excellent work, would love to see more!
That's a huge compliment!! Hope you enjoy the game :D Even if you get sick of WHM, it builds up a good foundation and teaches you things that will transfer to other healers!
"at the cost of your eye sight" I laughed so hard at this because yesterday there I was spamming Holy and thinking "Shit, they must hate me for blinding everyone" Truly amazing guide!!!
Im a sprout currently in post HW after about 2 months of lazy playing, i just got into alliance raid for 1st part of void ark and absolutely shocked to see 2 white mages out dps-ing everyone by almost 100%, kinda looking forward to starting a new healer class soon when i have time Ps: using act to track how well im doing with my dps rotations and improve so i was shocked to see 2 white mages doing 1.5k dps while the dps classes were doing around 800
As a healer main who is recently training my tank classes, I want to shout and scream at all the WHM that don't use regen. You're not doing your job when you don't put regen on the tank when they start their pull, don't refresh regen in the middle of their pull, and you're not doing your job when you neglect to cast regen and straight up letting the tank die to a dungeon boss that has no mechanics. And before anyone says anything, this happened four times on a single day, in a lv65 dungeon, and all of these healers were LV90 WHMs. I've since set up an auto translated "WHM Regen. Please use it. " macro on the hotbar, and I've since encountered two more WHM that just aren't using regen at all and I had to kick these healers when I was forced to Hallowed Ground, died anyway, came back up and Hallowed Ground again but died again. USE YOUR FREAKING REGENS PEOPLE OR BE CONSIDERED A HEALER DEGEN!!! As long as you use Regen as a WHM, you only ever need your ogcd stuff like assize, asylum, divine benison and "oops you're below half health have this" tetragammaton. It's very easy to just straight up never touch a lily in lv80+ content, and you gotta delibarely throw lilies in the air to purposely nourish blood lilies.
this is your best video yet and super educational . i am bad at whm but no longer ... now i am beast mode. thank you for the tips and tricks BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILLY
wow, i already commented on a earlier video, but the quality alone made me come back to your other videos, and i am just amazed, i thought this is a big youtube channel with hundred of videos, just because your videos are so well made. i wish you the best my dude, you got my sub, and im looking forward to the next video.
I remember your story with your BiL and those shitty mentors!! Super happy to see you again, and the kind words mean a lot. I’m definitely continuing, so thank you!! :D
This was a really solid WHM / healer guide! as someone who barely plays healer /WHM it was really interesting to listen to, I've been binge watching your videos because they're really informative, chill and your editing and voice recordings are really solid and good! I like your silly drawings too xD Just a tip tho! I think it was in the previous video prior to this one, not sure, and I noticed your chat was changed into the smallest size possible, probably because you wanted to hide it for the sake of the video, what I do in my videos if I want to hide the chat, is that I right click on a tab and select hide, and then when I am done I just hit enter to get it back :D So I don't really need to keep resizing my window @.@ keep up the good work
Thank you so much for the kind words!! I’m glad you’ve been enjoying the videos-that kind of support genuinely means a lot to me! And yeah, my chat box is pretty tiny hiding behind that cover art-hiding it isn’t a bad idea at all! I play on a pretty big monitor so things are kind of small unless I scale them up ANYWAY, but I will defo think about this! Super happy again w/ the comment, and I’ll be happy to see you around! :D
Divine Benison and Aquaveil's effects stack, and throwing both on the MT just prior to a tank buster minimizes needing to waste MP on healing the tank afterward, leaving you free to dps. During trash pulls, once the tank has gathered all the mobs together, after the 1st holy, slap a Medica2 on the party before going back to holy spam. Use this in between lilies to keep the party HP up and reduce the chances of your DPS dying from aoe once all the mobs gain stun immunity.
Amazing one! Being main whm for 2 expansions and I do agree with everything. One little tip if I may. Try to use thin air with raise. A lot of people forgets about it
your healer videos have been what's finally encouraged me to start healing at a higher level ^^ As a smn main I always felt like I was leaving sch on the wayside, but it's starting to get some use now. I would love to hear any tips you have for scholar! Especially if you're a summoner transferring to it
That’s awesome!! I came from black mage, so similar caster -> healer pipeline, and I have to say it’s a pretty easy transition to make. you’re basically giving up some complexity in your rotation in exchange for the additional minigame of juggling raid damage / healing people up. that said, for smn/sch specifically, those two jobs have never been further apart than they are now, LOL. They used to share a LOT of abilities, but between the SMN rework in EW and the smaller SCH rework in SHB, it’s pretty hard to spot many common connections. #1 thing you can do, and it’s cheesy advice, but is to just play and not worry about performing too optimally yet. because of your caster background, you should be able to comfortably DoT and broil spam, which is 90% of your GCDs at every level of play (past like, level 40, anyway.) principles like “always be casting” and mechanics like slidecasting transfer 1:1. basically, the biggest (only?) challenge will be learning all the SCH tools and when to use them, which again, will come trial and error. Don’t be afraid to GCD heal to your comfort, and of course, relish in the glory that is a crit Spreadlo.
Get a feel for how soon the Tank will take damage. If you pop benison early, like say right as they're moving, by the time they stop, benison will be off or nearly off cool down again, and your tank will be much healthier for it. This means you can stave off a heal for one or two more attacks. While I like the holy spam, my personal opinion is that if a pull is going to be really big(like 10+ mobs), it might be more beneficial to you to stagger our your holy spells until stun immunity kicks in. Less healing means more damage, though it is at the cost of single target vs multi-target, so while the damage uptime is more, the potency is less. It's more of a flavor thing at that point though. You can be the one single targeting the highest health monsters so that your DPS with an actually good potency, low cast/cooldown AoE can wipe em all out at once. Or you can just holy spam because at the end of the day 6 more seconds of stun won't break the bank. And yeah, pop benediction as often as it's off cooldown. It's a free reset for fuckups, if it were meant to be a tank savior solely for final bosses then every healer would have benediction. The game is not designed around it, so keeping it up all the time is a waste of a perfectly good 100% HP heal.
Super interesting idea with staggering Holy! I think if your tank is struggling with mit, it could definitely help, but of course mobs will die slower, so that's more potential time they're taking damage at the tail end of the pack. Still, I could see some use cases. The real damage is in the crit Assizes we pressed along the way!
@@specstreTV I definitely think once stun immunity kicks in, that's when you should repop regen, keep tetra or benediction on hand, and spam presence of mind + holy and maybe lucid or thin air to really help wipe the damage out. But especially in the case of popping DoTs I feel staggering stuns to help pop the last couple ones out could be helpful. This is all really niche though when it boils down to it. We're talking like a window of 4-6 attacks between all our stunned Holy casts. At the end of the day it's really not that much, which is why I think it's more preference and variety.
It really is! I think FFXIV hit a sweet spot with healing that makes it pretty addicting. It's not for everyone, but I love the balance between DPS and healing and WHM is just pure fun. Seeing a massive Afflatus Misery crit just hits different.
Loving your videos, WHM was my intro into healing back in ShB when I'd only ever played tanks. I still love it after the Thin Air nerfs (I miss Bozja shenanigans where I was the biggest DPS and could heal when Seraph Strike fell off without worrying about mana 😅). I've since branched to other Healers and SCH has been my main for EW, even taking on some Savage and Extremes and oh boy it's scary sometimes 😱 I can't wait for more videos and I'm grateful you popped into my recommended. I immediately shared your channel with my gf and younger brother 😁
What a huge vote of confidence! I'm glad you've been enjoying them!! SCH is in the running for hardest healer, imo. AST's card optimization might put it right on SCH's heels, but I've always found pet management to be a headache and SCH can be really punishing if you fall behind on mit and need to recover. Super fun though, and Expedient is my fave ability in the game, I think!
@@specstreTV I'm loving SCH and honestly find AST to be the one that gives me the most trouble followed by SGE. The former because it's just so busy and the latter because it's so hard to remember what everything does 😅 I definitely have felt that adrenaline rush of trying to catch back up with SCH though and it's terrifying 🤣 P.S. Expedience is my favorite healer skill. Period xD
@@SventFulgur Totally reasonable take. AST can be extremely hard to get into and has a much higher APM than any other healer, so your opinion is well-founded!! It's not my upcoming video, but I love SGE and am working on a dungeon guide for it that's similar to this one, so with any luck, maybe that'll might make the job easier to digest! :D
Even though I’m pretty well versed in whm, I like clicking on vids like this and BOY am I glad I did. This was a really informative guide and you are SO funny🤣🤣. You have yourself a new sub!
Thank you so much!! That kind of praise means a lot, and even if you maybe learned less than someone totally new to the job, always happy to hear it was entertaining! :D
Sweet, I've never liked healing in MMO's but I'm about to give WHM a whirl. I'm glad you can still do decent DPS while keeping people topped off. I look forward to playing with it.
I started with black mage focused on dps then I started marauder into warrior and now dark knight so I can be a tank and help out in dungeons and raids and now I’m starting to level white mage and help out my team again in a different way. I love having options because some days I like switching game play
Your content is so good it genuinely confuses me how ur vids arent already like a million views. Also: any chance you'll do SGE next? I'd love to optimize more
Thank you so much for the vote of confidence! :D I've had a lot of decent growth lately and it's been humbling to see all these comments. You're also in luck! I'm already working on a script for Sage and hopefully will have it out within a week or so, was just wrapping up my Raider video first!
Fun Fact: White Mage is a masochist job. You love watching others get hurt and then healing them so they can keep getting hurt. And no matter how much they beg and plead to end their miserable suffering. You won't let that happen.
you should mention that between pulls during downtime to use any excess lilies that you have left over to build up the blood lily so the next wall to wall pull you'll have it up to pretty much use immediately which is a big dps gain and gives you a weave window for your assize and PoM without needing to swiftcast holy.
5:00 I would strongly advise against using swiftcast for that minor DPS gain in randoms. I would especially advise against this for beginners. Swiftcast for DPS should be used in groups where both you and your party members know what they're doing.
I don't currently understand much of this as my whm is level....60-ish? I get anxiety from even thinking of playing it with all the things i need to focus on. Might take it back up again. I used to be a ninja main, then transferred to dancer and now trying rdm as I like being the emergency res-er (who never gets any commendations for keeping my whole team from wiping >.>). Thanks for this video - I'll save it and come back to it should my healer become a high enough level. Your friendly informative videos make it sound much more fun!
Thank you so much for the kind words! :D Don't stress about healing too much. If you can kind of let go of ideas about failure / embarrassment and just focus on enjoying your job, things slot together quickly. There ARE a lot of buttons to learn, especially big oGCDs, but if you keep at it with your core tools, you'll slowly learn where the "gaps" are and can start looking for answers from your other abilities. People are taking damage you can't heal? Look at using Temperance (your level 80 ability). Need fast healing / recovery for MORE damage coming up? Consider putting down Asylum. You aren't expected to use every tool every moment, but they're there to help you, and if you let them do their job, YOURS becomes a lot easier! And while you might come across the occasional bad apple who blames the healer for a group death, truth is, mitigation is a team job and EVERYONE has things they could've done to help. A lot of people understand that though, and I don't think you'll encounter nearly as much toxicity as you might expect! Best of luck :D
"White mage is a great job at all levels of play" I dunno, the hardest part of playing white mage is getting synced into that painful selection of levels in the early 50s where cure 1 isn't worth casting and you don't have healing options besides the regens and cure 2 because holy mp batman. I definitely think until you actually get tools like Afflatus and Benison, every other healer is much better built. Not that this niche window of synced content is particularly relevant, but it's worth bearing in mind that White Mage takes a few more levels to really get going than the others, especially considering we're all one bad levelling roulette away from a breakdown
I just start FF14 and play as white mage due to I want to be Healer and everyone just joking around "Green DPS" ..... wait, wat? Did I pick something really wrong again lol
if you have a PLD you also can Spare the Holy Spam and Set up bloodlily's if Tank goes into Invuln stage... That or Just cast Glare... Why waste the 10 Seconds of Invuln the PLD has let you know they are PLANNING to use... Hallowed Ground is a bit OP... Especially if the PLD also has Arms Length up to double it...
Ah yes. I like this parse shown at start. Its kind of irony that the lower WHM healing parse, the better healer he usually is. If as WHM you got any decent healing parse, it means you suck at healing and using medica 2 way to much overhealing instead of doing dps, or it means your shield cohealer suck by not applying shields and insta lowering your parse at same time.
I'm newer to ff14. Have a lvl57 goon but wanted to mix it up with heals soon because I've healed most other mmos that I've played. I was considering the white mage or wait for sage at lvl70. Was this video only to demonstrate the damage potential of white mage? It looked like the sage had much more healing done with much less overhealing. Any recommendations or advice?
Welcome to the game!! :D Honestly, it's hard to really split up "healer damage" from "healer healing" in FFXIV. Regardless of the level of play you're looking to get into, healing in this game is VERY DPS-oriented. All 4 healers do MOST of their healing through oGCDs, the spells they weave in between their generic DPS spam. That's not STRICTLY true at lower levels where you don't have all those tools unlocked, but certainly by endgame, 95% of your GCDs will be DPS spam, even in the hardest content. White Mage is kind of the training wheels healer because it still has two very solid, very reliable GCD heals in the form of Afflatus Rapture and Afflatus Solace, which are an AoE and single target heal, respectively. The gimmick here is that WHM gets refunded for those casts with those "Blood Lily" charges, which it can spend on a big DPS nuke to "make up for" the lost GCD damage. That said, Sage DOES probably have an overall better healing profile. WHM is very good at bursty nuke heals, but Sage has a lot of oGCD damage mitigation, HoTs, and even a good bit of burst healing itself. At the end of the day though, all 4 healers will serve you just fine in 99% of all game content. They're also all pretty similar, with only slight mechanical differences. If one healer in particular is aesthetically or conceptually calling to you, try it out!
Honest question here. I get the regen and benison but what about throwing out a medica II with that regen for group coverage just in case? Or is that a waste of mp and a gcd?
Medica 2 is DEFINITELY your best GCD AoE heal, and if the party is getting pounded and you need the help / are out of Lilys, it’s a great tool. Using it proactively however isn’t super efficient in most cases, especially in dungeons, because it’s pretty rare for DPS to take damage unless it’s on a boss. If that happens, it’s STILL usually light damage and can be covered with other things. Put another way, Medica 2 is kind of a superweapon at like 1000 total potency (250 initial heal+5 ticks of 150), and totally overkill UNLESS you’re running low on options and those regen ticks will actually go toward healing and won’t overdo it. Try to use the FEWEST GCD heals necessary, since WHM has a such a wealth of good oGCDs + Lilys, but at the end of the day, if the party needs help, their lives ARE more important than your damage. TL;DR - like many things on healer, it depends, but avoid overhealing where possible and maximize your time spent DPSing! Edit - And also, it actually doesn’t last THAT long, so stopping to throw a Medica 2 out between pulls will usually just slow you down and it’s unlikely to get a ton of mileage by the time the pull comes to a stop and the damage begins. Good instinct to think about regen stacking though! :D
I feel like a badass cause I already do all these things. Also makes me mad I don't always get all the comms now 🤣 jk jk...kinda. Mostly. Great guide! It's to the point and gets all the things you need to know. Using assize on cooldown is a must!! I never see other whm doing it. Popping lucid dream at about 7-8k mp will keep you topped up 100% of the time. I honestly never think of my mp unless I died in a raid lol.
Sounds like you're well ahead of the curve! :D Tanks have always been competitors in our comm market, but it's still such a rush to see the 3x comm when you leave a dungeon. That's a high I'm always chasing...
No need to memorize a choreographed DPS sequence when you get just dot/glare/and OGC to town. And don't think Bene and Tetra are there to help you heal. They're there only to allow you to squeeze in extra glares without wasting DPS on a **cringe** cure.
i like this Guides from you really a lot but one little Thing there is for a non english as mainlanguage person like me you speak soooo fast, that its sometimes hard to understand what you said^^
If you're talking about my suit glam, it's a Custom Delivery max-heart reward from an Endwalker NPC! I don't want to say -too- much in case it'd spoil anything (however minor) about the story for you, but if you're already in Endwalker and/or don't care, it's the "Appointed Jacket" and looking that up should tell you all about the NPC / the deliveries. I'd have to log in to get you the names of the other pieces and I can't atm, but they're all pretty basic / lower level and super customizable. The jacket goes well with a lot of things!
you were definitely given poor advice -- if there are multiple targets (either 2 or 3, depends on your level), it's an increasingly dramatic damage gain and the stun makes for pretty useful mit in dungeons!
Have to say astro has astrodyne which can be considered a personal dps couldown, 10% spell speed, 5%damage/heal and mana regen, true, malefic isn't a nuke but with ~15% damage buff it can pack a punch
I find Scholar's (Bane pls) and Sage's AoEs to be plain better than Holy. The ability to double-weave on every GCD while keeping the tank targeted is just too good. The stun is nice, but not really that necessary.
This might sound a little fence-sitty, but I think they're all good in their own ways. Art of War's damage is nuts (180 potency > 150 on on Holy), but especially in unoptimized content like dungeons, I find the stun really softens the curve with tanks who maybe don't mit that well. On the other hand, while AST's Gravity does peanuts for damage, being able to cast it at range feels really good in some situations like LL in TEA, where you're stuck baiting a tornado but can hit both bosses and so get a nice boost to your DPS. All depends on the context! Edit - I'll also add that Holy has a 3y bigger range than AoW/Dysk, which lets WHM hit adds w/ its AoE that SCH/SGE can't. Both EX 1 and EX 2 in Endwalker come to mind-EX1 especially has an add phase where ONLY WHM can hit all 4 adds since they're fixed in place and a pixel-perfect WHM in the middle of the arena can tag all 4.
@@Ascarion47 I swear on WHM I can BARELY get it, but you absolutely might be right because it’s been awhile since I’ve done EX 1 on SCH. Either way, agreed that there’s preference involved too! :D
As much as I enjoyed the video, no one class should be leaps and bounds ahead of any other especially when it comes to the damage meta. SE have since serious work to do
White Mage definitely has its strengths, but so do the other healers! WHM is leading this tier in raw damage (as far as I'm aware), but Sch has amazing party utility and brings a raid buff that EVERYONE benefits from, not just itself! AST has some amazing healing tools that totally dwarf WHM, and SGE, while maybe the weakest in SOME contexts, has some really, really amazing and low CD mitigation with abilities like Kerachole. You're right that it's always a balancing act and some jobs will always have slight leads on others, but you can play any healer and find serious endgame success! A lot of top-level teams have even run SCH/SGE for fights :D
As far as healers are concerned, balance is pretty okay right now : (at 95 percentile) SCH rDPS : 5715 AST rDPS : 5729 SGE aDPS : 5773 WHM aDPS : 5890 SCH has about 3% DPS difference with WHM, and that's prob because you can squeeze a blood lily under raid buffs, which can crit/dh for like 100k. Now is we're talking about Healing balance itself, that's something I agree on.
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I'm very glad that YT suggested you to me. Finally a guide person who is easy to understand, still funny and not a WHM hater ;-; My FC did yearbook like profiles and my quote is "Assize, purely for DPS"
LOL - it's a good quote :D
thank you so much for the kind words!! happy to hear you enjoyed it!
Thank you for always having well made subtitles to your videos! I have a lot of hearing issues and it's nice to be able to understand fully what is being said and the tone as well! \o/
i am so sorry that i've gotten a bit lazier with them in more recent videos... they are a pain to sync up, so i've kinda handed it over to YT's auto-captions, but this is actually a good motivator to get back on the ball and make sure i write them manually again
glad they help :)
Bro this is by far the best voiced, most well scripted, and most informative class guide I've ever seen. A lot of these tips are super useful too. The divine benison emnity one? Never thought of it. You deserve way more subs, bro, keep it up.
Means a lot, thank you so much! :D
@@specstreTV Tell me what jacket your bunny boy is wearing please..@2:20
Perfect Tutorial. This is exactly how WHM is supposed to be played in dungeons. If your group does dmg and the tank knows how to use mitigations, you will never have to cast a GCD Heal (besides the lilys) ever.
Thanks for the video! Hope more people will see you and your guides and we will have less cure-spamming lvl 90 whms in the future
Thank you for the endorsement! :D
I love how much healers change as they learn the role. People coming from other MMOs or even just plain new to healing can't necessarily be BLAMED for wanting to do more GCD healing than is necessary, especially if they don't really yet "get" how FFXIV damage works (bursty rather than constant), but it's something that should ideally be "unlearned" for sure.
PS - Never mind cutting Cure spam entirely, I'd settle for just not seeing Cure 1!
@@specstreTV might have been more annoyed than needed to be, after some atrocious expert runs xD sorry for that.
You are right of course, everybody starts ffxiv with different levels of knowlegde and there are games out there that have the healer role in a group, that is really only supposed to keep the group alive.
I think my biggest problem is not that there are cure (1) spamming whms - its more that you really notice that they didnt even try to put in the effort to learn the job at least on a basic level.
I love helping sprouts out, when i notice them being actually attentive and interested in advice. And its amazing seeing them succeed a dungeon or trial afterwards.
I am really talking high level stuff and people who are done with the story and still only use like 20% of their kit.
Without getting into the problem of buying level-skips, that is a story in and of itself. But going all 90 levels without reading what your new skills do just baffles be.
I have actually met so many whm in 90 content, that never even used their ogcd heals, as though they dont exist xD
So, i just wanna see people put in a tiny bit of work. And with videos like yours, it's really really easy to see the overall picture of healers in ffxiv.
So thumbs up to you again, specstre! ;)
I just stumbled upon this video and honestly? Did I need it? No, did I thouroughly enjoy it? 100% keep making videos your voice is super peaceful and nice!
Thank you for the encouragement!! Glad it entertained you even if you didn't need any of the tips! :D
It makes me happy to see another jump-spin-DoT-spinback player~
It's rare I come across WHM guides that mention just about everything we'll be doing, general priorities and all. Absolutely love this video, thank you for it!
I don't think there's much to add here for dungeons outside of extra niche bits that are often dungeon specific. I guess a few small ones for the readers here:
--If you play other healers primarily, you may not be aware that Holy's radius is actually 8y and not 5y. You can often hit the majority of mobs when on the edge of standard-AoEs. Take advantage of its larger AoE! This has some application in certain 8 man content as well.
--Lilybell is often extra-superfluous for dungeon healing at 90, but don't feel bad using it in trash if your tank needs an extra boost. Can push a lily use from in-combat to out-of-combat. If you feel like it can sometimes stand in DoT fields solely to heal the tank more.
--If it REALLY COMES DOWN TO IT, Medica II at 85+ is straight up stronger than Cure 2 pending the pull lasts 4 server ticks longer and the tank doesn't need the Cure 2 burst. Pair it with PI and it's superior after 3 ticks. It's superior pre-85 with PI as well. Very minor difference for dungeons, but a difference all the same. I pray you never find yourself in a situation where you're actively considering this difference in normal mode content. But rare as they are, very special groups DO pop up now and then~
--8 Man addendum: Likewise, Medica 2 is often a superior choice over Cure2/Regen for two-tank fights if they are taking significant damage. And, likewise, Rapture or PI+Rapture is often a better use of a lily if healing two-tank damage. Burst heal if needed, but otherwise your HoTs and Rapture put in a good amount of work.
-Also two tank - PI Cure 3 is equivalent to Cure 2 and can be used to quickly top off two vuln-happy tanks.
Again these are...pretty minor small things especially for dungeon content. Of course, as many are aware you want to minimize your non-lily GCD healing, but when the situation arises that you've gotta grit your teeth and go at it - minor things like this can help a tiny bit.
Thank you so much for the compliment! :D These are all excellent tips for optimizing WHM gameplay-Medica 2, when allowed to do its job, really is a great tool (at least, like you said, if it's come down to GCD heals). Great thoughts!!
This is a really amazing video full of A+ advice, I main WHM, it's honestly my favourite job, and if you're new to healing I recommend picking it up as it's a very good kit to onboard you into balancing DPS and Healing.
I saw someone in the comments mention Plenary Indulgence, and no lie, that's one of the first things I tell people to use once they get it at lvl 70. It often gets overlooked but it has great utility. It's paired with Cure 3, Medica 2, and Rapture. Lasts 10 seconds, but it boosts the HP recovery of those tools with 200 cure potency, which is amazing when there's a lot of incoming AoE damage you need to heal through.
Really helps with large pack pulls when you don't have access to Temperance (lvl 80). It's also A+ when progging new content, giving your MP more mileage as everyone perishes through the learning curve ;3
One thing to note on the Blood Lily, is don't be tempted to spam your Rapture/Solace JUST to proc it. It's a DPS loss over casting Glare. Like Specstre mentions in the video, use 1 to 2 during the down-time between pulls so you don't overcap. But during actual combat, trying to force a Blood Lily is a damage loss. Your Blood Lily will generate very fast if you're prioritising Lilies for healing over Cure 2. They also generate much faster now at 20 seconds per lily (used to be 30 seconds).
Plenary Indulgence (which I lazily usually just shorthand to Confession and often forget the actual name of...) is absolutely a game changer. Once you get comfortable using it (and knowing when), it really does dramatically increase your healing throughput. Confession + 2 Raptures pretty much tops the entire raid!
Regarding Blood Lily - yes, good point that farming Lilies in AoE is not ideal and it's much better to use them between packs in dungeons, though technically, Misery IS DPS neutral on single target ever since they buffed it to 1,240 potency (310 + 310 + 310 + 310 =1,240, so it crosses out the 4 lost glares). There's also some egghead math about Misery being a GAIN over 4 Glares inside raid buffs, but again, that's a little deeper.
Either way, great comment, ty so much! :D
I main White Mage and there was some helpful information in there. First, there's the reminder to use Assize whenever possible, and to look for opportunities to use Presence of Mind ... or just remembering it exists and using it whenever. Also, I assumed that Asylum just applied a HoT to everyone inside; I overlooked the 10% increase to all healing received, so thanks for making me aware of that. 👍
Another thing I found useful was loading my crossbar with all the spells, including the ones I haven't learned yet. That way, I get to figure out where everything goes in advance, so I'm not potentially moving stuff around and having to retrain my muscle memory whenever I learn some new spells.
Awesome, glad it helped! :D
And very good idea about pre-setting up your bars; anytime I pick up a new job or a new one comes out, I love to do that. Gets you thinking about how things will string together at endgame, too, and gives you things to look forward to!
As a new white mage, this is so helpful! I’ve been looking for guidance on how to play this job… thank you for covering the options and how to use the rotation! Really enjoyed your reframing certain skills as DPS with healing just as a side note and your explanation helped me understand lilies much more
Thank you!!
Would definitely enjoy more healing content because I’m planning on leveling up WHM, AST and Sage
Awesome, I'm so glad to hear that! :D I should definitely have more healer stuff coming! Thank you!!
I really thank the algorythm for showing me your channel, i really like your videos and can't wait for more ! :D
Thank you so much!! :D
this one is your best video yet, i am looking forward to the next video
also sidenote the baka mitai at the start jumpscared me i thought it was playing from my spotify and i was so confused
thank you!!
and baka mitai is unironically a good song...
This is some amazing content! I recently started my FFXIV journey and was looking for some good FFXIV channels, and on top of that I think you helped me find my main healer class! Keep up the excellent work, would love to see more!
That's a huge compliment!! Hope you enjoy the game :D Even if you get sick of WHM, it builds up a good foundation and teaches you things that will transfer to other healers!
I already really love every single thing about White Mage, but this video made me love my job even more xD
So glad to hear that! :D
"at the cost of your eye sight" I laughed so hard at this because yesterday there I was spamming Holy and thinking "Shit, they must hate me for blinding everyone" Truly amazing guide!!!
Thank you so much!! :D Holy is a little notorious for that LOL - still love it though!
Im a sprout currently in post HW after about 2 months of lazy playing, i just got into alliance raid for 1st part of void ark and absolutely shocked to see 2 white mages out dps-ing everyone by almost 100%, kinda looking forward to starting a new healer class soon when i have time
Ps: using act to track how well im doing with my dps rotations and improve so i was shocked to see 2 white mages doing 1.5k dps while the dps classes were doing around 800
WHM is so powerful it gives me IRL damage to my eyes with the holy spam
Great video with lots of information. Also bonus points for the white bunny. ❤
As a healer main who is recently training my tank classes, I want to shout and scream at all the WHM that don't use regen. You're not doing your job when you don't put regen on the tank when they start their pull, don't refresh regen in the middle of their pull, and you're not doing your job when you neglect to cast regen and straight up letting the tank die to a dungeon boss that has no mechanics.
And before anyone says anything, this happened four times on a single day, in a lv65 dungeon, and all of these healers were LV90 WHMs. I've since set up an auto translated "WHM Regen. Please use it. " macro on the hotbar, and I've since encountered two more WHM that just aren't using regen at all and I had to kick these healers when I was forced to Hallowed Ground, died anyway, came back up and Hallowed Ground again but died again.
USE YOUR FREAKING REGENS PEOPLE OR BE CONSIDERED A HEALER DEGEN!!!
As long as you use Regen as a WHM, you only ever need your ogcd stuff like assize, asylum, divine benison and "oops you're below half health have this" tetragammaton. It's very easy to just straight up never touch a lily in lv80+ content, and you gotta delibarely throw lilies in the air to purposely nourish blood lilies.
this is your best video yet and super educational . i am bad at whm but no longer ... now i am beast mode. thank you for the tips and tricks
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILLY
wow, i already commented on a earlier video, but the quality alone made me come back to your other videos, and i am just amazed, i thought this is a big youtube channel with hundred of videos, just because your videos are so well made.
i wish you the best my dude, you got my sub, and im looking forward to the next video.
I remember your story with your BiL and those shitty mentors!! Super happy to see you again, and the kind words mean a lot. I’m definitely continuing, so thank you!! :D
This was a really solid WHM / healer guide! as someone who barely plays healer /WHM it was really interesting to listen to, I've been binge watching your videos because they're really informative, chill and your editing and voice recordings are really solid and good! I like your silly drawings too xD
Just a tip tho!
I think it was in the previous video prior to this one, not sure, and I noticed your chat was changed into the smallest size possible, probably because you wanted to hide it for the sake of the video, what I do in my videos if I want to hide the chat, is that I right click on a tab and select hide, and then when I am done I just hit enter to get it back :D So I don't really need to keep resizing my window @.@
keep up the good work
Thank you so much for the kind words!! I’m glad you’ve been enjoying the videos-that kind of support genuinely means a lot to me!
And yeah, my chat box is pretty tiny hiding behind that cover art-hiding it isn’t a bad idea at all! I play on a pretty big monitor so things are kind of small unless I scale them up ANYWAY, but I will defo think about this!
Super happy again w/ the comment, and I’ll be happy to see you around! :D
Divine Benison and Aquaveil's effects stack, and throwing both on the MT just prior to a tank buster minimizes needing to waste MP on healing the tank afterward, leaving you free to dps.
During trash pulls, once the tank has gathered all the mobs together, after the 1st holy, slap a Medica2 on the party before going back to holy spam. Use this in between lilies to keep the party HP up and reduce the chances of your DPS dying from aoe once all the mobs gain stun immunity.
Amazing one! Being main whm for 2 expansions and I do agree with everything. One little tip if I may. Try to use thin air with raise. A lot of people forgets about it
My small, smooth brain loves and appreciates your Healer guides 😭💕
Scholar and Astro when though?
your healer videos have been what's finally encouraged me to start healing at a higher level ^^ As a smn main I always felt like I was leaving sch on the wayside, but it's starting to get some use now. I would love to hear any tips you have for scholar! Especially if you're a summoner transferring to it
That’s awesome!! I came from black mage, so similar caster -> healer pipeline, and I have to say it’s a pretty easy transition to make. you’re basically giving up some complexity in your rotation in exchange for the additional minigame of juggling raid damage / healing people up.
that said, for smn/sch specifically, those two jobs have never been further apart than they are now, LOL. They used to share a LOT of abilities, but between the SMN rework in EW and the smaller SCH rework in SHB, it’s pretty hard to spot many common connections.
#1 thing you can do, and it’s cheesy advice, but is to just play and not worry about performing too optimally yet. because of your caster background, you should be able to comfortably DoT and broil spam, which is 90% of your GCDs at every level of play (past like, level 40, anyway.)
principles like “always be casting” and mechanics like slidecasting transfer 1:1.
basically, the biggest (only?) challenge will be learning all the SCH tools and when to use them, which again, will come trial and error. Don’t be afraid to GCD heal to your comfort, and of course, relish in the glory that is a crit Spreadlo.
Get a feel for how soon the Tank will take damage. If you pop benison early, like say right as they're moving, by the time they stop, benison will be off or nearly off cool down again, and your tank will be much healthier for it. This means you can stave off a heal for one or two more attacks.
While I like the holy spam, my personal opinion is that if a pull is going to be really big(like 10+ mobs), it might be more beneficial to you to stagger our your holy spells until stun immunity kicks in. Less healing means more damage, though it is at the cost of single target vs multi-target, so while the damage uptime is more, the potency is less.
It's more of a flavor thing at that point though. You can be the one single targeting the highest health monsters so that your DPS with an actually good potency, low cast/cooldown AoE can wipe em all out at once. Or you can just holy spam because at the end of the day 6 more seconds of stun won't break the bank.
And yeah, pop benediction as often as it's off cooldown. It's a free reset for fuckups, if it were meant to be a tank savior solely for final bosses then every healer would have benediction. The game is not designed around it, so keeping it up all the time is a waste of a perfectly good 100% HP heal.
Super interesting idea with staggering Holy! I think if your tank is struggling with mit, it could definitely help, but of course mobs will die slower, so that's more potential time they're taking damage at the tail end of the pack. Still, I could see some use cases. The real damage is in the crit Assizes we pressed along the way!
@@specstreTV I definitely think once stun immunity kicks in, that's when you should repop regen, keep tetra or benediction on hand, and spam presence of mind + holy and maybe lucid or thin air to really help wipe the damage out. But especially in the case of popping DoTs I feel staggering stuns to help pop the last couple ones out could be helpful.
This is all really niche though when it boils down to it. We're talking like a window of 4-6 attacks between all our stunned Holy casts. At the end of the day it's really not that much, which is why I think it's more preference and variety.
As someone who never cared to heal as a dps main across multiple mmos, whm is so much fun!
It really is! I think FFXIV hit a sweet spot with healing that makes it pretty addicting. It's not for everyone, but I love the balance between DPS and healing and WHM is just pure fun. Seeing a massive Afflatus Misery crit just hits different.
Loving your videos, WHM was my intro into healing back in ShB when I'd only ever played tanks. I still love it after the Thin Air nerfs (I miss Bozja shenanigans where I was the biggest DPS and could heal when Seraph Strike fell off without worrying about mana 😅). I've since branched to other Healers and SCH has been my main for EW, even taking on some Savage and Extremes and oh boy it's scary sometimes 😱
I can't wait for more videos and I'm grateful you popped into my recommended. I immediately shared your channel with my gf and younger brother 😁
What a huge vote of confidence! I'm glad you've been enjoying them!!
SCH is in the running for hardest healer, imo. AST's card optimization might put it right on SCH's heels, but I've always found pet management to be a headache and SCH can be really punishing if you fall behind on mit and need to recover. Super fun though, and Expedient is my fave ability in the game, I think!
@@specstreTV I'm loving SCH and honestly find AST to be the one that gives me the most trouble followed by SGE. The former because it's just so busy and the latter because it's so hard to remember what everything does 😅 I definitely have felt that adrenaline rush of trying to catch back up with SCH though and it's terrifying 🤣
P.S. Expedience is my favorite healer skill. Period xD
@@SventFulgur Totally reasonable take. AST can be extremely hard to get into and has a much higher APM than any other healer, so your opinion is well-founded!! It's not my upcoming video, but I love SGE and am working on a dungeon guide for it that's similar to this one, so with any luck, maybe that'll might make the job easier to digest! :D
Even though I’m pretty well versed in whm, I like clicking on vids like this and BOY am I glad I did. This was a really informative guide and you are SO funny🤣🤣. You have yourself a new sub!
Thank you so much!! That kind of praise means a lot, and even if you maybe learned less than someone totally new to the job, always happy to hear it was entertaining! :D
Sweet, I've never liked healing in MMO's but I'm about to give WHM a whirl. I'm glad you can still do decent DPS while keeping people topped off. I look forward to playing with it.
honestly really helped me with WHM thanks man
That's awesome, super glad to hear it! :D
I started with black mage focused on dps then I started marauder into warrior and now dark knight so I can be a tank and help out in dungeons and raids and now I’m starting to level white mage and help out my team again in a different way. I love having options because some days I like switching game play
This video helped me not dread learning how to heal! WHM is actually kinda fun in high-level dungeons!
Your content is so good it genuinely confuses me how ur vids arent already like a million views.
Also: any chance you'll do SGE next? I'd love to optimize more
Thank you so much for the vote of confidence! :D I've had a lot of decent growth lately and it's been humbling to see all these comments. You're also in luck! I'm already working on a script for Sage and hopefully will have it out within a week or so, was just wrapping up my Raider video first!
Fun Fact: White Mage is a masochist job. You love watching others get hurt and then healing them so they can keep getting hurt. And no matter how much they beg and plead to end their miserable suffering. You won't let that happen.
you should mention that between pulls during downtime to use any excess lilies that you have left over to build up the blood lily so the next wall to wall pull you'll have it up to pretty much use immediately which is a big dps gain and gives you a weave window for your assize and PoM without needing to swiftcast holy.
5:00 I would strongly advise against using swiftcast for that minor DPS gain in randoms. I would especially advise against this for beginners. Swiftcast for DPS should be used in groups where both you and your party members know what they're doing.
I don't currently understand much of this as my whm is level....60-ish? I get anxiety from even thinking of playing it with all the things i need to focus on. Might take it back up again. I used to be a ninja main, then transferred to dancer and now trying rdm as I like being the emergency res-er (who never gets any commendations for keeping my whole team from wiping >.>). Thanks for this video - I'll save it and come back to it should my healer become a high enough level. Your friendly informative videos make it sound much more fun!
Thank you so much for the kind words! :D
Don't stress about healing too much. If you can kind of let go of ideas about failure / embarrassment and just focus on enjoying your job, things slot together quickly. There ARE a lot of buttons to learn, especially big oGCDs, but if you keep at it with your core tools, you'll slowly learn where the "gaps" are and can start looking for answers from your other abilities.
People are taking damage you can't heal? Look at using Temperance (your level 80 ability). Need fast healing / recovery for MORE damage coming up? Consider putting down Asylum. You aren't expected to use every tool every moment, but they're there to help you, and if you let them do their job, YOURS becomes a lot easier!
And while you might come across the occasional bad apple who blames the healer for a group death, truth is, mitigation is a team job and EVERYONE has things they could've done to help. A lot of people understand that though, and I don't think you'll encounter nearly as much toxicity as you might expect!
Best of luck :D
"White mage is a great job at all levels of play" I dunno, the hardest part of playing white mage is getting synced into that painful selection of levels in the early 50s where cure 1 isn't worth casting and you don't have healing options besides the regens and cure 2 because holy mp batman. I definitely think until you actually get tools like Afflatus and Benison, every other healer is much better built. Not that this niche window of synced content is particularly relevant, but it's worth bearing in mind that White Mage takes a few more levels to really get going than the others, especially considering we're all one bad levelling roulette away from a breakdown
i have learned so much from this channel my brain is a sponge
LOL, I'm happy to hear that!
The only weakness of WHM is that after lvl 82 you lose the best spell in the game for Holy III.
I just start FF14 and play as white mage due to I want to be Healer and everyone just joking around "Green DPS" ..... wait, wat? Did I pick something really wrong again lol
Why is my fave since I began the game at launch lol
if you have a PLD you also can Spare the Holy Spam and Set up bloodlily's if Tank goes into Invuln stage... That or Just cast Glare... Why waste the 10 Seconds of Invuln the PLD has let you know they are PLANNING to use... Hallowed Ground is a bit OP... Especially if the PLD also has Arms Length up to double it...
Hallowed Ground is undeniably an amazing dungeon invuln-maintenance free and super helpful when tanks use it proactively!
Ah yes. I like this parse shown at start. Its kind of irony that the lower WHM healing parse, the better healer he usually is. If as WHM you got any decent healing parse, it means you suck at healing and using medica 2 way to much overhealing instead of doing dps, or it means your shield cohealer suck by not applying shields and insta lowering your parse at same time.
Fantastic Video, I would love to see a Sage video
Thank you so much!! You're in luck-I've been working on a Sage one next! :D
I wonder, what chest piece is he using on this vídeo, it looks so nice
NGL that 0 heal parse made me cry in Sage (P8s PTSD).
Don't worry, that was just a Barba EX... I usually put up an EXTRAORDINARY ~10 heal parse in most fights this tier. ^_^
Ha! He said, “your assize is the biggest in all of Eorzea” giggity 😁
I'm newer to ff14. Have a lvl57 goon but wanted to mix it up with heals soon because I've healed most other mmos that I've played. I was considering the white mage or wait for sage at lvl70. Was this video only to demonstrate the damage potential of white mage? It looked like the sage had much more healing done with much less overhealing. Any recommendations or advice?
Welcome to the game!! :D
Honestly, it's hard to really split up "healer damage" from "healer healing" in FFXIV. Regardless of the level of play you're looking to get into, healing in this game is VERY DPS-oriented. All 4 healers do MOST of their healing through oGCDs, the spells they weave in between their generic DPS spam.
That's not STRICTLY true at lower levels where you don't have all those tools unlocked, but certainly by endgame, 95% of your GCDs will be DPS spam, even in the hardest content.
White Mage is kind of the training wheels healer because it still has two very solid, very reliable GCD heals in the form of Afflatus Rapture and Afflatus Solace, which are an AoE and single target heal, respectively. The gimmick here is that WHM gets refunded for those casts with those "Blood Lily" charges, which it can spend on a big DPS nuke to "make up for" the lost GCD damage.
That said, Sage DOES probably have an overall better healing profile. WHM is very good at bursty nuke heals, but Sage has a lot of oGCD damage mitigation, HoTs, and even a good bit of burst healing itself.
At the end of the day though, all 4 healers will serve you just fine in 99% of all game content. They're also all pretty similar, with only slight mechanical differences. If one healer in particular is aesthetically or conceptually calling to you, try it out!
@@specstreTV Thanks for the clarification and explanation! Best way to know is to dive in I suppose :D
@@David-mk2cx For sure!! I bet you'll get the hang out of it pretty quickly no matter the job you take up. :D
There's also a hotkey to target down the emnity list so you don't have to click it i think
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That is actually what we pay SE for lol
Honest question here. I get the regen and benison but what about throwing out a medica II with that regen for group coverage just in case? Or is that a waste of mp and a gcd?
Medica 2 is DEFINITELY your best GCD AoE heal, and if the party is getting pounded and you need the help / are out of Lilys, it’s a great tool. Using it proactively however isn’t super efficient in most cases, especially in dungeons, because it’s pretty rare for DPS to take damage unless it’s on a boss. If that happens, it’s STILL usually light damage and can be covered with other things.
Put another way, Medica 2 is kind of a superweapon at like 1000 total potency (250 initial heal+5 ticks of 150), and totally overkill UNLESS you’re running low on options and those regen ticks will actually go toward healing and won’t overdo it.
Try to use the FEWEST GCD heals necessary, since WHM has a such a wealth of good oGCDs + Lilys, but at the end of the day, if the party needs help, their lives ARE more important than your damage.
TL;DR - like many things on healer, it depends, but avoid overhealing where possible and maximize your time spent DPSing!
Edit - And also, it actually doesn’t last THAT long, so stopping to throw a Medica 2 out between pulls will usually just slow you down and it’s unlikely to get a ton of mileage by the time the pull comes to a stop and the damage begins.
Good instinct to think about regen stacking though! :D
I feel like a badass cause I already do all these things. Also makes me mad I don't always get all the comms now 🤣 jk jk...kinda. Mostly. Great guide! It's to the point and gets all the things you need to know. Using assize on cooldown is a must!! I never see other whm doing it. Popping lucid dream at about 7-8k mp will keep you topped up 100% of the time. I honestly never think of my mp unless I died in a raid lol.
Sounds like you're well ahead of the curve! :D Tanks have always been competitors in our comm market, but it's still such a rush to see the 3x comm when you leave a dungeon. That's a high I'm always chasing...
No need to memorize a choreographed DPS sequence when you get just dot/glare/and OGC to town. And don't think Bene and Tetra are there to help you heal. They're there only to allow you to squeeze in extra glares without wasting DPS on a **cringe** cure.
Benediction is a path toward DPS that Stillglade Fane won't teach you about.
i like this Guides from you really a lot
but one little Thing there is
for a non english as mainlanguage person like me you speak soooo fast, that its sometimes hard to understand what you said^^
I did a dungeon a few days ago when the tank told me to focus on healing, that I'm not a green DPS, never have I laughed so hard
You'll get that sometimes... mentor crowns infamously try to enforce that rule often. Just ignore them and play (the correct version of) the game! :D
"Why not play White Mage?"
Because the other three healers exist.
Put some patches and shields on the tank an holy on!!!!
No big mob-mass to dare? Take glare!!!
What is that armor in the outro?
If you're talking about my suit glam, it's a Custom Delivery max-heart reward from an Endwalker NPC! I don't want to say -too- much in case it'd spoil anything (however minor) about the story for you, but if you're already in Endwalker and/or don't care, it's the "Appointed Jacket" and looking that up should tell you all about the NPC / the deliveries. I'd have to log in to get you the names of the other pieces and I can't atm, but they're all pretty basic / lower level and super customizable. The jacket goes well with a lot of things!
Is it just me or should holy be a 1.5sec like everything else???
your assize is the biggest in eorzea ^^
A wise man once said "DPS'ing is mitigating future damage".
That man was wise indeed! :D
I was told not to use holy, a mistake I'm not planning on doing again
you were definitely given poor advice -- if there are multiple targets (either 2 or 3, depends on your level), it's an increasingly dramatic damage gain and the stun makes for pretty useful mit in dungeons!
Have to say astro has astrodyne which can be considered a personal dps couldown, 10% spell speed, 5%damage/heal and mana regen, true, malefic isn't a nuke but with ~15% damage buff it can pack a punch
Flowermage for the win XD
00:55 more like what i pay square to do :P
I find Scholar's (Bane pls) and Sage's AoEs to be plain better than Holy. The ability to double-weave on every GCD while keeping the tank targeted is just too good. The stun is nice, but not really that necessary.
This might sound a little fence-sitty, but I think they're all good in their own ways. Art of War's damage is nuts (180 potency > 150 on on Holy), but especially in unoptimized content like dungeons, I find the stun really softens the curve with tanks who maybe don't mit that well. On the other hand, while AST's Gravity does peanuts for damage, being able to cast it at range feels really good in some situations like LL in TEA, where you're stuck baiting a tornado but can hit both bosses and so get a nice boost to your DPS. All depends on the context!
Edit - I'll also add that Holy has a 3y bigger range than AoW/Dysk, which lets WHM hit adds w/ its AoE that SCH/SGE can't. Both EX 1 and EX 2 in Endwalker come to mind-EX1 especially has an add phase where ONLY WHM can hit all 4 adds since they're fixed in place and a pixel-perfect WHM in the middle of the arena can tag all 4.
Absolutely agree. It very much will come down to personal preference, too.
Haven't done EX1 in a while, but IIRC, AoW works on the 4 adds, too.
@@Ascarion47 I swear on WHM I can BARELY get it, but you absolutely might be right because it’s been awhile since I’ve done EX 1 on SCH. Either way, agreed that there’s preference involved too! :D
You calling Whm the Vanilla Ice cream healer makes me want to play White Mage more because the little nickname is cute
Psttt….😤 Chocolate Supremacy
As much as I enjoyed the video, no one class should be leaps and bounds ahead of any other especially when it comes to the damage meta.
SE have since serious work to do
White Mage definitely has its strengths, but so do the other healers! WHM is leading this tier in raw damage (as far as I'm aware), but Sch has amazing party utility and brings a raid buff that EVERYONE benefits from, not just itself! AST has some amazing healing tools that totally dwarf WHM, and SGE, while maybe the weakest in SOME contexts, has some really, really amazing and low CD mitigation with abilities like Kerachole.
You're right that it's always a balancing act and some jobs will always have slight leads on others, but you can play any healer and find serious endgame success! A lot of top-level teams have even run SCH/SGE for fights :D
As far as healers are concerned, balance is pretty okay right now : (at 95 percentile)
SCH rDPS : 5715
AST rDPS : 5729
SGE aDPS : 5773
WHM aDPS : 5890
SCH has about 3% DPS difference with WHM, and that's prob because you can squeeze a blood lily under raid buffs, which can crit/dh for like 100k.
Now is we're talking about Healing balance itself, that's something I agree on.
Carry any dungeon with white mage.
1 - medica II + regen on tank
2 - holy
3 - profit
healer high five!
Listen healers ASUNA will remove all bombs and orange arrows - just be quick about it, you will clear them from all players !!!!
Cool
I’m nothing like vanilla….Smadge.
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FIRST FOR THE THIRD TIME!!!!