I've had my backside handed to me PF healing, this post deserves a double take for sure for other jobs but HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY I feel like this is definitely more on the challenging side of FFXIV!
A trend that's been happening with EX+ i've noticed is they like putting out lots of damage DURING the burst window. Makes things complicated for AST tremendously lol
Cole I think the reason you like the new AST is that it has a very similar play style to SCH now. Nickle & dime healing, small things that with enough setup generate very smooth and satisfying play patterns when it comes to healing. With as much tank damage as there is, I can definitely see you preferring it over SCH right now in PF.
I gotta say, stuff like this is what makes me feel as though I shouldn't be a healer. I can't do the whole "Raise where they SHOULD be" thing... because I'm paying attention to A) my own stuff, B) trying to get them up ASAP because a dead DPS = 0dps, get them up faster they recover faster ectect, that's my mentality. it's difficult for me to trust other healers because I've had wayyyyyyyyy too many DPS Greedy healers that never... and I mean NEVER heal. Unlike you though, I do get tilted... kind of easily-ish. less so during prog of course, but yeah.. that's one of the biggest reasons I don't do savage, not that I can't, just that I don't want to deal with bashing my head against the fight repeatedly. I can learn fights fairly quickly and I know some people learn faster, and some slower, than me, which is all well and good, but I'm not super fond of the progging aspect. I'm not about to jump into a fresh pf if I have the fight on farm "for the memes" like you, cause I know that's not going to sit well with me I enjoy healing and being a healer, at least... I think. I certainly give it my all, but with the type of language people tend to use and how "perfect" they talk about how to play and what not... it makes me feel like absolute crap, because I don't care if my buffs align or w/e, I will use my cards right as soon as I draw them, because I don't care if they "get more mileage" I only care that a buff is a buff is a buff and holding a buff can be just as bad, doubly so if you forget to use the buffs at all which... can and does happen fairly frequently with me. I'll get in a flow and forget about my cards all together if I hold them for too long. I know I'm better than I think I am, but stuff like that... make me feel subpar at best and that kills me... because its like no matter how hard I try... the goal post is always just out of reach.
@@whitemageserenia ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RVovWRkE4TU.html&t ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Poqu6p7F8S4.html Because this happens and healers when they do endgame content say, well, if do it without healers i might as well just dps, after all tanks can self heal. Or so is their mentality… As a healer main i heal until everyone is top and then just cast my damage rotation ;)
I guess responsibility. Healers have it the easiest. I do play sage. Half the time I don’t need most of my skills. I play on controller. As a healer that’s how easy it is. Well sage anyways. Never touch Astro but it sounds interesting. I do think DPS have it the hardest because they must change their rotation based on boss. Tanks second but I don’t find healing difficult. I’ve only done m1s so far and both EX. Maybe my opinion will change with the other savage but I do think healers have it the easiest. I will say that I agree with you on mitigations…no one but healer seems to know that is. I prefer to dps with pictomancer but I’m too scared to dps in high level content. I’d rather learn mechs as healer not having to worry about dpsing as much. I do dps as healer. I’m just not stressed out if I forgot to dosis for the 88th time. DPS checks are def in place you gotta bring food cuz people get one shot with base gear.
SGE is probably the easiest healer in the game (though an argument can be made for WHM). Try playing SCH or AST in savage with a bad cohealer in partyfinder and come back and fix this post. Healers by far carry the highest responsibility in party finder content. You mess up and it's always your fault. Cole makes a really good point about the sheer complexity of having to balance party healing, party mitigation, personal dps, and mechanics. Sure, your healer rotation is a little easier than "press the glowing button" weaponskill rotations that dps have, but optimizing healing alone with random players in PF is a nightmare. DPS rarely have to change their rotation based on the boss aside from minor adjustments for uptime or delays, so that's not a good comparison. I rarely post of Coles videos, but I'd like to post this response so your bad ideas don't give people the wrong idea. :)
There is no DPS check, so it isn't hard to DPS if you want to clear. You don't need to do your rotation just do the easy mechanics of the tier. But there is still a heal check, especially in pf where dps and tanks can't be bothered to mit
Yea you need to pass M1S. I can turn my brain off playing dps more times than not, but am always on my toes as healer. Especially for mechanics like Fusefield or Rotten Heart if you need to see it through. Need to delicately balance dmg GCDs with not wiping the party
@@Mystic_EyesI respect your opinion and I am trying out AST. So far pretty fun especially when I pretend it’s Yugioh. I’ve never been in raiding guild. I’ve always done PF so I guess I’m just used to handling many situations to the point it feels normal.
1:48 you don't need addons for targeting macros, and are great macro options for cards without addons (I have a whole bar of play 1 macros for each team member)
I totally agree with rez disorientation. I get more distracted than I probably should when someone messes up and dies, where any mechanic I would have muscle memory solved I stare at like a deer in headlights (or decide to rez in a place that is Not Safe) Re: cards. I'm a controller player and I have a carry-over from Endwalker astro days that macro's all my cards to the party. I also keep DPS at the top of my party list and filtered so stronger DPS roles are generally higher up. But the macros made the endwalker burst window feasible for me on my controller in savage content where I knew which controller press meant which party member. I decided to keep the macros for Dawntrail even though the burst isn't as chaotic as it used to be just to let me focus more on the battle / aoes than the party list.
8:40 As a tank (WAR specifically), even with my mits, I'm still getting my health bar deleted during that mech. I appreciate you healers that help me get through it.
I found my healing spirit brother! I haven’t gotten into savage raiding yet, but have done a lot of extremely trials over a number of expacs and enjoy them a lot. And I’ve only avoided savage tier because historically you had to static raid them, but now that they are done often through party finder I have no excuse other than just setting the focus/effort on it. Anyways, I do will have cleared an ex trial many times, and still join fresh prog or practice groups because I enjoy helping the clear, and testing my limits as a healer! When I’m learning the fight and we’re all undergeared, it’s very annoying and stressful to have a bad cohealer. When I’m on top of the fight having cleared it a bunch, I’m just forging a stronger healer that can better deal with disaster recovery. I’ve been playing WHM since ARR and SCH since between HW and StB. I picked up and leveled AST to 100 the last few weeks and enjoy it a lot and will continue to play it. I started SGE and it’s solid, but haven’t fallen in love yet. WHM cleans up shop when it comes to flat out “I’m going to make your raw HP bar full” where as AST, it has forced timing windows around Lady of Crowns and Earthly Dominance for bursting HP bars back to full. AST easily has the most difficult burst support window to manage too, but is the most impactful in a raid / full party context with aligned buffs.
Most jobs are pretty easy to grasp; I find the issue more on the side of expectation. Tanking and healing are core jobs, so you're expected to do your job perfectly at all times. I suffer from extreme anxiety, and I'm very socially withdrawn, so DPS is what I do best. If I mess up, I don't feel that all eyes are on me.
