FFXIV Healer Comparison! Easy/Hard? Strong/Weak? Intense? 

AST in the video: "Should I buff the Samurai or the Dragoon?" :/ Me as an AST main: "Ok Samurai you got it last time now it's the Dragoon's turn!"

White Mage: Practical healers Astro: Pseudoscience healers Scholars: Theoretical healers Sage: Unlicensed healers

I appreciate you not just saying "lol whm easy" actually acknowledging the mp management, lack of movement tools, and lilly planning in higher content. It definitely has a lower skill floor than the other heals, but does have its moments too

I think the overall power of the healers come down to how well you can plan ahead: WHM is the most powerful if you find yourself reactionary healing and needing to pick up the pieces after a lot of pain has been dealt to the party. SGE and SCH are even more powerful, but only if you learn to precast and mitigate so you can avoid the majority of pain. AST is the most powerful, but only if you play 4D chess with precasting and PRE-precasting so the party can ignore damage almost entirely. Sadly I'm not gigabrain enough to use AST at the level where it shines brightest.

Your narration of these videos is so chill and exquisite, love your guides!

I just love being a white mage. Its a classic for me. But more then that im proud of how far ive come with being in a healer role. Another reason i love white mage is its animation.. you freaking grow light wings and you float when casting spells.

This is exactly the kind of explanation I was looking for on job differences for someone who knows nothing. Thanks :)

SCH mains i salute you. I love seeing you guys in content cause it must suck feeling a little neglected by the devs right now. 😅

I know folks recommend WHM as the 1st healer to play but I jumped in head 1st with SGE as my 1st healer because it looked the most interesting and fun to play out of the 4 healer. I wasn't wrong in that as I REALLY enjoy playing SGE! Working on the other 3 healers now but I have a STRONG feeling they won't be as fun to play.

Scholar is my first and currently my main job for high-end content. I decided to start this game as SCH because i want to try out "shield healer" which was kinda new to me at that time, and the fact that SCH got a cute fairy. A lot of people asked me why I play SCH instead of SGE. SGE might be regarded as fun and 'easier' than SCH, but i find it less fun and less useful overall. I used to play SGE in the last tier, but switched back mid-tier because SCH just hit the spot. I cannot count how many time fully buff Adlo-Deployment tactic can completely negate the need to heal in certain mechanics thus saving a lot of resources and time to get into position. I even used it to take a tank buster. I just can't get enough of that THICC shield. Excogitation and Fae Union are perfect for tank busters. SCH also got a raid buff. Expedient pre-nerf was also extremely strong as the second raid-wide sprint that lasts 20s, making a lot of mechanics much easier than they should. Still, SGE can clutch heal a lot better than SCH imo, easier to get dmg reduction and regen on everyone too because no one want to stay inside Sacred Soil, pretty great mobility, and insta-cast shields required much less timing. If your co-healer died, SCH which relies heavily on shielding-mitigation, will run out of resources for raw healing. SGE, on the otherhand, is heavier on healing-mitigation so it will be alot better in handling such situation. I actually recommend SGE if you have background in Tank or DPS role and want to get into healing role but find WHM to be extremely boring.

Love this guide. Im a sprout so gaining some information helped a lot with my first heal job. I went with SGE first. But eventually im going to pick up AST. One day SCH and WHM will be added to list. Lastly thanks for the guide

So well explained, thanks!!

Finally, a video that explains Scholar in a way that doesnt make it sound like it's the worst class ever. It's been my main from level 30 to modern content and i could'nt agree more on your descriptions of it. There's nothing quite like getting the raid or dungeoun down so well you can use all your aether on damage.

im already sleepy but this video put me to sleep. dont get me wrong! i really like the chill narration, so soothing.

Thank you for the video

Started the game very recently as a black mage and I’m definitely going for astrologian as my main healer. Thanks for the informative video.

I've seen plenty of videos. And that one is, by far, the mostly well done.

I just finished leveling my WHM and as someone who has been unwilling to the point of idiocy to heal before, I find the job so much fun. I tried Sage, and while alright I just find more satisfaction in the WHM abilities. Most spells just feel awesome (Except Cure. It’s on the bara stuck into a corner). The job really feels like a white MAGE. Not just simply a healer with a few pewpew spells. Dungeons are immensly fun with double holy and assize on packs to open. The cc component on Holy makes it a great mitigation tool as well. It just feels so well rounded which is just what I like and I can easily plan for damage mitigations. The floaty quality feels very ethereal too even on my brute Roe male. I main tank otherwise so knowing how tanks work and play helps alot.

Great video! Ive recerntly picked FFXIV back up (played 1.0 a bit and ARR but stopped for years) My main was a WHM, but only got to 65, so I started a new character and am now SCH. Definitely loving SCH, at level 50 now, but want to check out SGE and AST looks fun too. I cant decide!! I mostly dont want to go back to level 30 to pick up AST, so may just stick to SCH till I can unlock SGE. Really want to prioritize getting at least one job to 90 before I think about other jobs.

God, cleric stance xD that's a throwback. Brings back memories of trying to get protect on the tank before they sprinted off in bardem's mettle to take massive damage lol. Been healing since stormblood and have my main healer in sage now. Really enjoyed hearing your summary of all the healers. Think you did a fantastic job explaining their strengths and differences. I joke with my static that sage is my favorite dungeon healer because if the tank doesnt mitigate I can do it for them lol

I've only very recently gotten into FF14 and had decided to pick healing as my main class since I've always been fond of being the supportive role. I started out as a White Mage which felt fun but sometimes a bit boring up until I unlocked the Lilies and the more elaborate spells. Upon Heavensward I've switched to Astrologian and it's been a very fun kind of chaotic gameplay. It's sometimes tedious to both watch mechanics, play the cards correctly AND keep people healed, but the constant pressure and attention you need to put into it is very amusing to me.

I love the barrier healers. Sage even more than scholar. Someday i hope to be ready to pick up astro. It seems difficult, soo many buttons…

Great video

My thought process for being a scholar main was choosing arcanist because the class blurb said I could summon stuff, and when I found out that it could “evolve” into a healer, I knew I’d found my calling

I only started healing this year as a White Mage & I'm actually enjoying it. I did have some ups & downs in the lower levels but now I can heal without any issues. After I reach level 90 with my WHM, I'm going to unlock Sage & make that my main healer class. :)

Awesome video! As someone who really can’t get into leveling WHM, I like the insight into its kit. I do want to mention though, I don’t really agree with SGE being easy to master. Maybe I’m biased since I’m a SCH to SGE convert. I say this because there’s a certain level of extra decision making and toolkit interactions that make it obvious when a SGE knows their kit vs watching one of the many “How to play SGE” guides out there. Though, it admittedly has a pretty low skill floor since you really can auto-pilot in dungeons as you said. For mastery, NOT managing their Addersgall is probably the most obvious offender. When that timer stops, you’re not getting MP recovery and my experience has been that burning the stack helps you stay afloat. This is like.. BASIC basic stuff that a SGE should know. I think Kardia swapping is a lot more important to SGE kit than people have decided. If we’re drawing similarities to Embrace, then it’s obvious that we should be moving it as intake demands. Likewise, SGE’s PvP kit requires it to have Kardia on an ally to shield them, making it integral to its gameplay. I think a lot of the ideas of PvP can apply to PvE and vice versa. (RDM for example benefits from the concept of balancing both black and white mana. In PvP this takes the form of the player choosing or applying effects from black/white shift.) Decision making in action is similar to AST, in my opinion, except it’s not centered around distributing cards. Naturally, it doesn’t require as much knowledge of others’ classes. For example, the aforementioned Kardia swapping is important, yes, but if you Druochole wouldn’t overheal and/or your addersgall timer is about to pause, getting value from the otherwise thrown-away heal is probably better. Kardia swapping off of the tank is pretty beneficial, too, especially during Raids since it opens the tank up to getting full value from a Taurochole (e.g DPS takes damage; either kardia swap or Druochole DPS. The time spent having Kardia on DPS means Tank doesn’t receive passive healing, allowing Taurochole to make fuller use of its heal component.) Likewise, there’s a bunch of other factors that make SGE mastery not-so-easy. There are basic things like using Haima to make Kardia swapping safer or prioritizing Soteria > Haima if *its your current Kardia target that needs extra healing*; more advanced things like timing Panhaima to mitigate 200p damage, expire to provide an Ixochole-level 400p healing, and potentially having the lingering 200p barrier provide extra mitigation. SGE even has niche things like converting EVERY safety/downtime Eukrasian Prog/Diag into extra throughput by snapshotting raidwides/tankbusters/any damage with Pepsis (30p when using it like Emergency Tactics bUt iN rEvErSe; 350p heal AND 100% of the barrier is consumed when used as a parry) I think that there’s a lot more to SGE than people give it credit for. The potent tools at its disposal has led most of the community to believe that there isn’t much potential to be had and, from that, haven’t put extra effort to get more value.

I never finished leveling AST because it just seems way to complicated for the payoff. WHM is a very clean reactive healer and easy to play. SCH feels the safest to play. I can always have shields out and my faerie takes care of the small stuff leaving me feel like I'm never in panic mode. SGE is really fun and interactive. It can get really stressful if you have a WoW tank who spins the mobs all the time trying to dodge mechanics or if they aren't using their cooldowns. I'm still fairly new to the game, but I play SGE, SCH and WHM all in the current raid tier and love them all, but SCH/SGE are my favorites. Thanks for the videos, love your content!

The biggest issue with the SCH and SGE comparison is that SGE's Eukrasian Diagnosis shield is considered more potent by the game because of the Addersting gauge, even if the shield only has 1hp left. Because of this, it can never be overwritten by SCH's Adlo shield. Eukrasian Prognosis's shield is a different buff and can be overwritten by SCH's Adlo or Succor. So many times during roulettes and PF where I go as a SCH, get the prepull big Adlo shield on the party, and the SGE just puts their shield on the tank and wastes my shield or worse, puts a shield before I can use Deployment Tactics, wasting all those shield buffs and we actually have to heal after the first raid wide.

I started healing as a scholar, then sage, then astro... i havent touched white mage yet. Scholar also levels summoner at the same time which for a new player that may not have the time to run up multiple classes quickly(or want to pay) can be a nice thing.

While my main job is dps, i play a lot as sch for my group, mainly for secondary healing And let me tell you, it so satisfying to be able predict who's gonna get hit for mechanic When they thought that they will die, they actually alive with either shield or exoc

Back in the days of Cleric Stance, I could pretty easily out-DPS a lot of actual DPS classes on Scholar in many situations due to having multiple DoTs and Bane, and also Shadow Flare. It was a good feeling lol. Also, RIP Fey Wind and Fey Caress. I miss the faeries having unique skills instead of just being the equivalent of Scholar pet glamour...

I love the explanations! Personally I find myself leaning more so towards AST since my wife plays Warrior and my kids play random DPS. Makes picking and choosing who I buff vastly easier for me 😅 When I run roulettes with randos I've found it easier to to play as AST thanks to my families party setup.

I have a magic dps class and a tank but now I’m deciding which healing class to level first. Hard to decide but I love helping out teammates

If I didn't start with astro I would have never fallen in love with healing but I only like healing with astro because its more fun then the other

I started the game as Bard until lv 30 and then changed right away to Astro.... yeah I apparently picked one of the hardest classes to learn as a sprout but ngl it saved the game for me. I was bored of the simple gameplay of low lvl bard and felt way more challanged as astro! I am so glad I became astro main~

I started life in FFXIV as a Scholar. Finished the MSQ with Scholar. When I switched to White Mage, my first two weeks were a living hell comprised of wondering why I never had any MP, and wondering why everyone else in the raid was suddenly so squishy. (For the uninitiated, a Scholar's fairy does so much heavy-lifting that without it, if feels like everyone suddenly has half the hitpoints.) Still, now that I understand White Mage, it's easily my go-to for Savage and Ultimate. It's very difficult to kill a tank if a White Mage doesn't want them killed.

Sage is my first healer I learned, then astro, then white mage, then scholar. - Scholar has so many buttons including pet management that it confuses me at the beginning, also I feel the aetherflow limits what the job can do if you happen to run out of it at the wrong time. I am always anxious that the faerie heal won't reach the tank so I ended up just standing close to tank. - I found sage healing is pretty weak if needing to top everyone quickly, but overall fun class with lots of insta-cast and has cool futuristic aesthetic. - I enjoy astrologian a lot as it throws decent heals+regens and can act like a proper support class, so I feel more useful to the group. The card system is easy once you realised that blue outline = dps/tank, purple outline = ranged/healer. - White mage is my least favourite due to a lot of abilities needing cast times, and lack of skills variety so it's kinda boring. It's mainly big heals and that's about it... Overall I use astrologian and sage the most :)

My Scholar needs a book to cast spells. And I have a book just to know how to handle scenarios haha! I love Scholar

i was a blm main in arrr, picked ast in heavensward and have mained it since (much rage at the changes over the years). so i laughed when you recommended not doing ast as your first healer cuz i figured after blm ast would be cake

I absolutely loathe the WHM, and do not use it since I got it to 90. The MP management (prior to lily abilities) made it a nightmare for me that I have not recovered from. The SCH or SGE is my go-to, but I still play AST for fun. The only thing I miss about the SCH is back when Energy Drain replenished MP instead of HP. It took some adjustment in my playstyle to compensate, but I was able to find a new groove.

Earthly Star and Horoscope feel like the Astro abilities that are the most difficult to figure out how best to use. I'd rack my brain over how to time earthly star for its heals and it actually turns out that using it pre-pull and keeping it on cooldown generally lines it up with some incoming damage. You have a 20 second window in which you can use it, making it surprisingly flexible. It also has the added benefit of putting its damage in raid buffs. It also compliments how busy your 2 minute bursts are. Having the earthly star down before raid buffs means you'll heal up damage without even having to do anything. Horoscope is a pretty weak heal, but still useful just cuz its free. Also should definitely be used if you ever plan on gcd healing. Pop neutral sect too and you can make mechanics very comfy on damage for only spending one gcd heal. The usefulness of horoscope and neutral sect is a lot more apparent if you do ultimates where there's a lot of downtime, but can still be good in savage. Also, do not be afraid to gcd heal, on any healer. Especially in prog, you're gonna want to gcd heal quite a bit. Trying to go without gcds before you have mit and heal plans, and before you have good gear, is just gonna cause wipes. Obviously you don't want to spam them but not using gcds is something you have to work up to. Watch any early clears of savage raids and you'll see plenty of gcd casts.

Dammit, will have to wait a while day for my fix

Working on getting a conjuror up to 30 for that unicorn mount. After that I’m out of the healing game. I can’t have that type of responsibility while playing video games.

Funny. The most complex healer made me adore the role when I first got into this game properly. Before then I played dragoon for a realm reborn because I liked the idea of jumping on shit...but the second I got to try astrologian I fell in love with this game. Healing my team and empowering them. Creating a massive shield to protect my team from party wide hits. Buffing my entire party for damage. Constant regens. Sure I may not do the most damage but what I utterly adore is keeping my team going and protecting them all while the gorgeous blasts of magic and stellar light surrounds me and my team. The other healer classes are fun but I will forever love astrologians gigantic kit of tools to fill tons of small roles alongside healing

I've been healing as a Scholar (still in Heavenward) and it's quite underwhelming to play in open world. I'm sure it gets better at higher levels, but you basically just hit Bio, then Ruin x 1000 and eventually the enemy dies. There's just no attacks except Art of War which is a group attack and requires you to run into a mob of enemies to execute and the Aetherflow attacks are boring and not that's strong either. Watching this video and seeing that White Mage and Sage have the highest potential damage output makes a lot more sense to me now. I want to main a healer, but I also want to have fun in open world when healing isn't a need. I think I will grind to lvl 70 and unlock Sage. It's seems to have more of what I'm wanting. Thanks for the video!

CLERIC STANCE and HIT CHANCE... these are things I'd almost forgotten... You gottae bring up Accuracy at some point too just to make me cry more ♥

omg i totally forgot about cleric stance, i still have protect on my whm's original hotbar as a reminder of our healer history hahaha

I’ve thus video before actually starting the game so far I got my scholar at lvl 77 and I’m about to start heavenward 😳🤫 With that said just started playing as the astrologer but its kinda extra work just because to me lol I kinda enjoy barrier healing cause I can game plan early and let thing play out I haven’t unlock sage and I skipped wht mage cause I’m lazy so I needed 2 jobs in one lol scholar/summoner Great video I probably just a barrier healer now I want to get tanking down next

As a relatively new player, here are my takes: WHM: My main up until I got SGE. Big chonk heals are nice to have when you don't know the content well, and the stuns from Holy make WtWs a lot less stressful. When you DO know the content, however, the lack of preventative measures becomes apparent. You gotta love the thermonuclear blood bomb tho. SCH: I don't know, there's something about this that never clicked with me. I can't really articulate any specific reasons. Maybe I should give it another try sometime, but something about its skillset just feels... ehh. I _wanted_ to like it at least. AST: Look. I know my limits. I have neither the galaxy brain nor the keyboard dexterity to keep up with everything going on here. A fumbling, indecisive healer makes for a dead team, so I won't burden other players with my poor AST performance. SGE: My beloved. Lovely damage reduction via buffs, shields, and... "threat removal". But the thing that drew me to the job? The thing that compelled me to grab it despite only barely being done with 3.0 MSQ? Kardia. My monkey brain LOVES healing by going ham on the attack spells. I can see how people would see eternal Dosis spam as boring, but for me it just gives that delightful neuron activation moment. I am your doctor today, and I am here to KILL!

What body glam is the DRK at 7:40 wearing?

AST is best if you already know the fight/dungeon inside and out, so you can plant the timed skills in advance.

First time viewer here, great video. No offense intended but I get the feeling you're trying to change normal voice. Is this really how you usually talk? I compared it with a random video of yours, sounds way more natural. Could also be some weird mixing or mic settings, which gives me an ASMR vibe, lol. 😅

I'm basic, I normally spam Lustrate. You have an ASMR voice.

SCH was the first job i played after getting Arcanist to 30. Then once i reached HW, AST became my main since i had always wanted to play it. It was my first job to 80 at the time. WHM was one of the last jobs i got to 80, i still find it boring to play at 90

As a fresh player that started lancer, I know myself personally and have always enjoyed being a support. However I am so undecided on who to play, all these comments are so different lol White mage seems like a mercy from overwatch. However I enjoyed playing her because you could just fly around and she’s simple, however I am just scared of getting bored before 50 since I am doing trial For astrologer I can’t tell if I need the expansion, because I am so new I don’t want to pay for something that can be free at first Scholar seems eh seems lol I want pretty visuals Sage I just don’t know if I want to grind that much to get her So I’m thinking white mage it is hopefully it will work out :p Only question, since I started lancer do I have to redo the whole story to start white mage?

As a WHM, I kinda forget that like... I have utility spells to make my life easier (namely Thin Air and Asylum). So you reminding me of "You can use thin air to revive and poof, it's like it never even happened" just revolutionized a small part in my brain. "Yo. We don't have to spend mana on rev anymore. We can spend more on Glare." "Yo good idea brain, thank you for finally reminding me, brain."

Haha when i got to HW i had only been leveling my first job, which was monk, and noticed that i waa gonna ram the cap like that, so i decided to pick up a second job ever to level up... And i didnt feel like grinding up from lv1 so i just picked up astro, " i guess ill learn healing here..." Astro is my first lv90 job, i love it.

Scholar just feels...Disjointed to me. I like Sage a lot though, and WHM was my main from ARR-HW, it's my one lvl 90 job with proper ilvl gear for 90, so i use it to unsync, and when i just feel like healing. AST is fun but a little complicated since you want to keep a lot of things off cooldown.

Aw, I have to wait until tomorrow?

I honestly have had a hard time with Sage. I really want to enjoy the class, but I find myself in dungeons running out of shields to apply, and people taking massive amounts of damage that I can't out heal. Got my Sage to 90 when Endwalker first dropped, but I was panic / struggle healing for most of it. Used to main White Mage, but I honestly get tired of spamming holy all the time. I hear it in my sleep.

Astro was actually the first healer I played and the only one that I like. All of the others have charges that need to be managed. Astro’s “charges” are just the cards which I enjoy giving people damage buffs. All of the healing spells just have mp cost and cool downs. No shard resource management needed as well.

I was made thru fire Ast is the 1st healer I leveled thru dungeon spam and I love it. Over regen the crap out of that tank and go nuts on dps, Earthly Star will cure you when it pops and kills that trash pack. I did Sage thru msq only and never had to learn how to heal as for Sch... I just played Smn and the extra 90 job was a perk.

I've only leveled Scholar, as a sideline from Summoner. Never figured out how to play it. never healed a dungeon run, or played it after reaching 90.

Just trying to find a healer to level up as an alt just in case. I was stuck between WHM and sage. AST seems way to complicated for me lol

My path to level the healers is a rather weird one. I first took Sage because they start at a higher level. Then I leveled the Scholar as a bonus to the Summoner. Now I am leveling White mage. I am not sure when I may have the courage to touch astrologian and its weird kit

Ironically I find AST to be far easier to understand than SGE, but that's probably because I have 30+ levels of playing AST so far in comparison to not even touching SGE for a single level (I unlocked it and saw the absolute chaos that my crossbar became and was like "Yeah no" lol. Doesn't help that all the names just blend together). WHM is the only other healer I have leveled. Maybe I just prefer pure healers over putting up shields thinking about it now...

Honestly, even if astro is the hardest healer to master, I find astrologian the easiest and I understand it the best, much better than sage and white mage And for scholar, I did not really bother playing it, since it levels together with summoner

Tbh imo astro only have high raid damage in a well optimised team. During unoptimised situations, such as people dying, buffs unaligned due to whatever reasons. I’d rather go whm for higher damage.

I like playing SGE well enough, but the Toxikon mechanic just doesn't mesh, what with having to use E. Diagnosis to get the tokens that are only usable by a spell that does as much damage as Dyskrasia. Sure it's useful for movement without having to get close, but what's the point in wasting time and MP for something that isn't stronger than other attacks? Edit: wrong spell lmao.

which one would you say fast paced?

11 months late to the video, but I do have to disagree on Astrologian's mobility being as good as Sage's (let alone better than White mage's) considering that Lightspeed as you mentioned is very often used more as an opener tool than a mobility tool.

My fav healer and my main is a sage

White Mage: Starter pure healer, pretty, cool animations, BLOOD LILY! Astro: Advanced pure healer, also pretty, "cheating button" (Macrocosmos), Probably frothing at the mouth seeing a dps die/get a damage down after being handed a card. Scholar: Advanced barrier healer, fairy?, cool playstyle, not (buff/support) difficult, probably eaten one too many fairies in their time. Sage: Starter barrier healer, got a glock and TikTok, has both strengths of pure and barrier, devs fixed Phlegma 3 to fit in 2min window perfectly fine, will definitely send you a TikTok relating to your healer job.

personally i think sage is the hardest and complex healer possible, i just cant play it but alas, im a whm only player

Interesting, didn't know that the summoner's heal scales with mind.

Astrologian main here.

good video, but im confused why youre whispering XD

Here’s what you do to avoid having your shields overwritten as Sage: meld exclusively for crit. I have a 25% crit chance on my sage, and believe me, those shields won’t be overwritten anytime soon.

Honestly I will never understand the sage thing. I simply cannot keep the party alive with it during raids, and the only way to do that seems to be having warrior that selfheals every pull while I use all my mana and abilities trying to desperately keep the two others and the warrior alive. The worst part of it is that usually tanks pull much faster than the cooldowns on heavy shielding spells meaning that if you use all shielding on the first pull, you will likely wipe on the second one, but if you don't use them all, you have to make small pulls or wipe (vanaspati is the worst about this one)

You talk like a hot cup of delicious tea

GOD UR VOICE

Is this outdate ? I'm free trial lv70.

If you're trying to decide between sch and sge. Sage is just outright a superior healer and it's stupid broken in comparison. They have the burst healing of whm with nearly the same shield potential as sch but they also come with more and better mitigation options than sch and unlike sch, can run around while doing it. Oh a sch put out larger shields? It's ok because your shields take priority over scholars and you can erase their shields with the smallest of Eukrasian Prognosis any time you like! Dmg? Stomp sch into the ground and is on par with whm. Scholars cope on "oh but chain stratagem", cool but you bring basically nothing else to the table that sage can't do better. The only time sch is better is when you're in a static and you all know every aspect of the fight. But even then if shit hits the fan in the fight, sch doesn't have any emergency options either, unlike sage lol. That makes the chance of a team recovery much more likely on sage.

I think of starting with ffxiv i love the idea of the astrologian but it sounds soooo complex:-(

"White Mage is a good starter Healing class and Astrologian is not recommended for new Healers"...... Man, I have the OPPOSITE problem; I despise White Mage, yet thoroughly enjoyed my starting time with Astrologian!😂😂

in terms of damage output in average high end group all healers are essentially equal. Only for benchmarking however scholar and astro outperform the other two jobs. And with how much simpler sage and white mage are to play, and not relying on other players to deal damage during your buffs, these two are just so much better for anything thats not the absolute top end

I know AST has more to think about than other healers, on average. But at 9:34, you throw two questions up on the screen: Is it better to play a ranged card on a melee DPS, than to play it on myself? Is it better to play melee card on a ranged DPS, than to play it on the tank? The answer to both of these questions is always, unequivocally yes. This is not something you ever need to think about, just card a DPS that isn't tanking the floor. Doesn't matter if you hit the wrong type. A competent DPS will always yield more gains from your cards than any tank or healer just by virtue of the way the roles are balanced for damage.

Honestly, I suck at healing. I abhor healing. I only have SCH at 90 for lore reasons. I suck at healing so much that if I end up rouletting into a lvl 80+ dungeon, I warn the party about how sucky I am. And if we wipe more than once or twice, I apologize for my suckiness and quit the party, cuz by then, I’ve already managed to piss off the whole group.

Healers before Shadowbringers: "Oh wow they are all so unique!" Healers post Shadowbringers: *They're the same person* meme.

White mage feels like you're hard lined into the aether and have unlimited reserves of power. I have lucid dreaming in my hot bar, but make it a point not to use it. Thin air into cure 3 is probably the most satisfying thing. You have 2 charges of Thin air, so on top of every heal being free you can also elect to make another spell of your choice free. Im only level 70 too. Was starting to feel like I should have started as warrior to be more cannon to the whole warrior of light thing, but low key, white mage is the truest warrior of light.

The most hard to play is obviously SCH when there is stupid SGE in your party, ruining all your big shields :/

Whm doesn't have mana issues. Assize is used on cd for dmg, not mana (its a wonderful bonus tho). Lucid dreaming should be used at 7-8k mana. I raid with low piety (526) and even chain ressing rarely causes mana issues when you're using thin air when available. The only problem you run into with mana is being revived with lucid dreaming on cd, however a mid-piety build makes this a non-issue. Sch is by far the worst for dungeons. This is due to the fact that many tanks either ignore their mitigation or underutilize it. Your shields are meaningless when the tanks health evaporates faster than a squishy dps. This often causes sch to scramble through raw healing which as a shield healer, is barely enough. Sch overall feels incredibly clunky to play, especially when compared to sage. While sage is much busier, it's tool kit flows much better than scholars and it honestly brings more to the table when it comes to raiding.

Me, an AST: *”beg for my cards like the worthless dps that you are”* Jkjk 😅 Sharing is caring.

7:10 yeah, no, they should be thankful if I give them a card at all lmao

I don't get why people say Astro is hard to play, there is literally nothing special that makes him harder than Sage or Scholar. Personally I find Sage harder than Astro for sure.

Holy does less damage because it hits a 40% larger area.

Sage is such an angry healer lol "You took damage? Ok cool. You get kardia" If tgey are below 100%. Are not the tank. But still above 60%? They get kardia lol

„dont play Astro as a first healer“ me: me as Astro Main Why TwT

Four different ways to blind the entire raid.

You keep saying pure and barrier healers and that both types have both things. So obviously, there is no such thing as a pure healer or barrier healer.