Being Prepared Triage Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Healing Preemptively Proper Usage of Lucid Dreaming Maximizing Efficiency The “Cost” of an Action GCD Efficiency MP Efficiency Making the Most of Your Kit

Table of Contents (for you PDF nerds) The Scope of this Guide Core Concepts and Mechanics GCDs/Spells oGCDs/Abilities GCD Clipping/Animation Lock Heal Delay Server/Entity Ticks eHP/Mitigation Buff/Debuff Snapshotting Enmity/Threat Macros and Skill Queueing Stat Tiers Damage/Healing Variance The Purpose of a Healer Keeping the Party Alive Dealing Damage Healer Identities and Their Roles in the Meta The Forced Dichotomy of Healer Design WHM SCH AST Encounter Design What the Encounter is Asking of You Damage Sources Damage Types Healing Practices Always. Working with your tanks: awareness, consistency, communication.Working with your cohealer: awareness, consistency, communication.Added section on Damage/Healing Variance.Added explanation of how to check damage types in ACT/FFLogs.Added xivanalysis under Identifying Areas for Improvement.

Added explanation of single target GCD macros being situationally permissible.

Various updates to reflect AST’s newly not-laughable pDPS.

Updated Combined Healer Kit section to reflect changes to Divine Benison.

Orinx for his excellent Gear Comparison spreadsheet and his work on the healer DH thread. The TheoryJerks for all the work they’ve done with the Stat Intervals spreadsheet and all kinds of other math witchcraft.Įspecially Nemekh for helping me suck less at math and providing some excellent visual aids.įavorite Mentor™ Ahri for providing a ton of consultation and proofreading throughout the project.

The healer channels of The Balance that are mostly not completely full of degenerates, for inspiring the creation of a general healing guide in the first place.ĭialace, you pretty much brought up the idea and then I went and wrote it, so I guess I stole your thunder kinda I’m sorry My fellow mods and the mentors on The Balance, for making sure I don’t say anything stupid here and make a fool of myself. The Balance Discord as a whole for helping to shape me into the player I am today, and for providing me with a place where I will never stop learning.

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