My Astrologian is currently at lvl 65 and I’m ashamed to say that even after all this time, I’m still a bad healer. The thing is, contrary to DPS jobs (which are currently more my mains than healers), I never bothered to read or watch guides online. Being back to AST after a long hiatus, I decided to fix that, and by doing so I realized that I was really not playing it correctly until now (shame on me). I used to think that as long as no one died I was playing fine, but I now realize that I should be doing way more DPSing as I used to. That’s mainly because as a healer, I was in the mindset that I should be healing as long as a teammate’s hp is not full (or at least as 95%), which seem to be a very bad way to play the job.
I have now made a huge change to my playstyle (better late than never right ?), casting way more DPS skills than before, and waiting for HPs to drop more before starting to heal. That said, I still have a few questions regarding some skills.
Benefic 1 : Given my previous (and wrong) playstyle, I used to cast this skill a lot (everytime I saw the tank hp decrease from full health). But from what I read, Benefic 2 should be my go-to GCD heal, while Benefic 1 should almost never be used (despite its proc chance on Benefic 2), except if I don’t have enough MP for a Benefic 2 ?
Minor Arcana / Divination (note that I don’t have Sleeve Draw yet) : I always try to cast a Divination with 3 differents seals for max % dps increase. That means that if I draw a card with a seal I already have, I just use Minor Arcana and use it on the appropriate teammate, and just pray for the next Draw to give me a “good” seal. I rarely use Redraw because I feel like it makes me waste time I could be spending healing or DPSing (especially when I redraw 3 times in a row and don’t get the seal I need). That means that I don’t cast Divination as much as I should be. Is it better to just fill the 3 seals slots with whatever seal the RNG gives me to cast Divination as often as possible (and use Minor Arcana only if I already have all the seals slots occupied) ?
Essential Dignity : I used to see oGCD heals as skills you should be using in emergency situations, when you GCD heals are not enough to keep up with the damage received by your team. Reading/watching some guides online I seem to have it backwards actually : I should be using my oGCD heals/regen first (and only follows with GCDs if that is not enough), that way I can go back to DPSing faster, right ?
Lighspeed : Same as above, I usually keep it only for emergency cases and mostly when I need to heal a lot of a damage on the entire team. For example, if a boss casts one or more wide AoE attacks that brings all my team at < 50% hp, I pop Lightspeed->Aspect Helios than spam Helios until my team is back at full health, after which I resume spamming Gravity/Malefic until healing is needed again.
I’m open to any advice about Astrologian or healing ! Just keep in mind I’m still below lvl70 so I might still lack some essential skills !
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I have now made a huge change to my playstyle (better late than never right ?), casting way more DPS skills than before, and waiting for HPs to drop more before starting to heal. That said, I still have a few questions regarding some skills.
Benefic 1 : Given my previous (and wrong) playstyle, I used to cast this skill a lot (everytime I saw the tank hp decrease from full health). But from what I read, Benefic 2 should be my go-to GCD heal, while Benefic 1 should almost never be used (despite its proc chance on Benefic 2), except if I don’t have enough MP for a Benefic 2 ?
Minor Arcana / Divination (note that I don’t have Sleeve Draw yet) : I always try to cast a Divination with 3 differents seals for max % dps increase. That means that if I draw a card with a seal I already have, I just use Minor Arcana and use it on the appropriate teammate, and just pray for the next Draw to give me a “good” seal. I rarely use Redraw because I feel like it makes me waste time I could be spending healing or DPSing (especially when I redraw 3 times in a row and don’t get the seal I need). That means that I don’t cast Divination as much as I should be. Is it better to just fill the 3 seals slots with whatever seal the RNG gives me to cast Divination as often as possible (and use Minor Arcana only if I already have all the seals slots occupied) ?
Essential Dignity : I used to see oGCD heals as skills you should be using in emergency situations, when you GCD heals are not enough to keep up with the damage received by your team. Reading/watching some guides online I seem to have it backwards actually : I should be using my oGCD heals/regen first (and only follows with GCDs if that is not enough), that way I can go back to DPSing faster, right ?
Lighspeed : Same as above, I usually keep it only for emergency cases and mostly when I need to heal a lot of a damage on the entire team. For example, if a boss casts one or more wide AoE attacks that brings all my team at < 50% hp, I pop Lightspeed->Aspect Helios than spam Helios until my team is back at full health, after which I resume spamming Gravity/Malefic until healing is needed again.
I’m open to any advice about Astrologian or healing ! Just keep in mind I’m still below lvl70 so I might still lack some essential skills !
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