So, i started playing this game back at the end of Heavensward/beginning of Stormblood, i leveled WHM first but found it very dull and boring at times, then i tried SCH and it was love at first sight. The Pet that was a free regen, all the micromanagement of pet skills and dots, the proactive/strategic approach of it. Also leveled AST a bit but for all end-game content SCH was always my go to.
Stopped playing after more or less a year, then came back recently on a fresh new character, and this time i tackled the story with ACN/SCH immediately. However, i ended up being surprised by how much harder was clearing progression dungeons on my SCH, specially when i have to deal with large pulls. Before i used to cast an Adlo, WD, an Exog, FU if needed, and then proceed to set all my DoTs and my beloved Shadowflare while Eos kept the healing and that was it. Now, by setting Adlo, WD, Exog, FU, even SS all togheter, it still doesn't give me enough security to spam AoW, beacuse i still see the Tank health bar dropping and i have to stop DPSing asap. Even more so if he also has still low gear.
It happened a few times during big pulls in HW and SB dungeons that i ran out of Aetherflow and spamming Adlo wasn't enough, so the Tank died and we wiped, then everyone started calling me out like i was a bad inexperienced healer. Eventually i got sick of this and decided to level another healer to main. I reashed the AST because i was curious on the new card system and the reworked toolkit (also i'm a little biased being a Tarot reader myself). Mind you that i actually loved the old card system, not in a "i fish for Balance" way, but I'm currently at the start of SB dungeons with it and till now i gotta say, it feels amazing.
I know that a lot of AST mains are gonna hate me, but i don't dislike the new card system, i dislike its values and timers, sure, but the concept is kinda growing on me. Also i love the new Celestial Opposition, its basically a free aspected Helios that you can stack on top of it. In fact, stacking 4 regens all togheter on the Tank feels amazing, and pairing that with Lightspeed and Gravity spam makes the times of my life in dungeon pulls. Even when i was bad geared, between all the healing and mitigation options that i had i never felt insecure of the situation, on the contrary memorizing the attacks pattern and precasting CU/ES ecc. accordingly feels super satisfying. At the moment my only little concern on the job is its MP management, even though i still can work around it with LD and Lightspeed, and again, i wish the cards felt more impactful, all that weaving just for a 6% buff for 15 sec is kinda meh. For everything else, i love healing with this job and can't wait to get all my kit in endgame.
For SCH i dunno, i think the fairy should be buffed a little, she feels so useless to me right now. Also should i consider WHM? Is it still utterly simple and slow or did ShB bring new life to him?
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Stopped playing after more or less a year, then came back recently on a fresh new character, and this time i tackled the story with ACN/SCH immediately. However, i ended up being surprised by how much harder was clearing progression dungeons on my SCH, specially when i have to deal with large pulls. Before i used to cast an Adlo, WD, an Exog, FU if needed, and then proceed to set all my DoTs and my beloved Shadowflare while Eos kept the healing and that was it. Now, by setting Adlo, WD, Exog, FU, even SS all togheter, it still doesn't give me enough security to spam AoW, beacuse i still see the Tank health bar dropping and i have to stop DPSing asap. Even more so if he also has still low gear.
It happened a few times during big pulls in HW and SB dungeons that i ran out of Aetherflow and spamming Adlo wasn't enough, so the Tank died and we wiped, then everyone started calling me out like i was a bad inexperienced healer. Eventually i got sick of this and decided to level another healer to main. I reashed the AST because i was curious on the new card system and the reworked toolkit (also i'm a little biased being a Tarot reader myself). Mind you that i actually loved the old card system, not in a "i fish for Balance" way, but I'm currently at the start of SB dungeons with it and till now i gotta say, it feels amazing.
I know that a lot of AST mains are gonna hate me, but i don't dislike the new card system, i dislike its values and timers, sure, but the concept is kinda growing on me. Also i love the new Celestial Opposition, its basically a free aspected Helios that you can stack on top of it. In fact, stacking 4 regens all togheter on the Tank feels amazing, and pairing that with Lightspeed and Gravity spam makes the times of my life in dungeon pulls. Even when i was bad geared, between all the healing and mitigation options that i had i never felt insecure of the situation, on the contrary memorizing the attacks pattern and precasting CU/ES ecc. accordingly feels super satisfying. At the moment my only little concern on the job is its MP management, even though i still can work around it with LD and Lightspeed, and again, i wish the cards felt more impactful, all that weaving just for a 6% buff for 15 sec is kinda meh. For everything else, i love healing with this job and can't wait to get all my kit in endgame.
For SCH i dunno, i think the fairy should be buffed a little, she feels so useless to me right now. Also should i consider WHM? Is it still utterly simple and slow or did ShB bring new life to him?
Continue reading...