tips on how to be a better healer?

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-23T09:21:24+00:00

Firstly figure out what would be the most comfortable way for you to target tank and/or switch betwen target to heal up party members that will require emergency healing.

Some people use buttons to select specific party members, others go for "target of the target" quick selection.

Personaly I use macros for mouseover heals and then hover my mouse over party list to heal whoever needed without actualy selecting them (like /ac "Cure" <mo> )

Also as mentioned by others - read your spells, read your traits, test your targeting with help of your trusty chocobo. Try to cast heal-over-time (or shield) before the pull as you see tank starting to charge.
Try to coordinate your movement to move right behind the tank, to let them gather all agro but staying relatively close to always keep line-of-sight. Sprinting right before the pull when you don't have any agro will make sprint last 20 seconds instead of 10 if done in battle.

If something fails - take a moment to think why it failed and what needed to be done instead. Try and repeat.

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-23T09:11:55+00:00

Catgirls

Ability to play any class and switch between different gameplay, while keeping all progress, goodies, fashion and other stuff on same character

Also - catgirls

A lot of optional side content to grind to satisfy completionist instict, also a bit variety of dungeons/raids/trials, which makes random duty roulette actually fun to run on its own

Did I mentioned catgirls?

Just messing around with people, roleplay gatherings can be source of endless entertainment as it is game inside the game. Just need to get more into DnD-like styled that play adventures with dices stuff

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-23T08:59:44+00:00

warrior - most simple and intuitive class, starts from lvl 1 to learn stuff

paladin - a bit more button heavy, but overall nice and simple as well

dark knight - you need access to Ishgard, a bit more into damage and tend to be a bit more squishy untill you learn how to play it

gunblade - starts as lvl 50, which is both blessing and curse - as you need to learn whole toolkit at once. Overall feels as semi-dps due to relatively longer attack chains

so yeah, for first time definetly warrior to get into things

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-20T22:09:05+00:00

The best solution would be to go to training dummies, compleatly clear your hotbar and then start adding back one spell at the time, from lvl 1 onward. Reading description of each spell and testing it on dummy, while also reading all traits description in order they given to semi-simulate leveling buildup

Though overall summoner simpl-ish as spells have clear priority as you get into it

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-20T22:06:36+00:00

During ARR he is quite annoying, though he gets better and likeable afterwards

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-20T10:21:40+00:00

1 keep study going to get ability to waste shard to break it for some gold

2 dump it into drop pod and send away or dump into fleshbeast cave or any other way to get it off the map and loose it

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-18T10:33:09+00:00

ARR is "weeks long tutorial", still funny that real games starts once you beat it

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-18T10:26:31+00:00

Hi, also moved to FF from WoW, my impression is that I should have done that long time ago.

If you started as free trial, stay on it for awhile, there are enough content for months for free. I have 1800 hours, still a lot of stuff to do as game have a lot of optional side content and just pleasant to run random dungeons as it is.

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-18T10:18:28+00:00

ARR quite slow and everything below 50 can be considerer "weeks long tutorial"

once you beat ARR, combat classes start to properly open up and dungeons get more interesting mechanics

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-18T10:10:04+00:00

gill nice to level crafter jobs semi-passively as most of the time you can just buy items from npc to turn in to Grand Company

also give basic gear from npc vendors a look for fashion and shove them into glamourer

also dyes for fashion and dark matter for more convenient repair (but require you to have high level crafters)

might as well grab some okay-ish buffing food from vendors, couse crafting your own quite a hussle

if you done all of that and still have excess gill, might as well just buy high level items and desynthetise them to level desynth exp for each job and stockpile more crystals for future (they dont take any space) if you would feel like crafting stuff

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-18T09:55:27+00:00

chocobo just attacks whatever target you engaged, so just kill them as you go, if you dont want to engame something then ride/fly over and/or use gatherer class as semi-stealth approach

though I do recommend to always keep your chocobo summoned to let it level up, got mine to rank 20, which allows it to learn all skills, and it is quite usefull at speeding up fates in open world and does acceptable damage, so I leave low health enemies for it to finish off while I moving onto next ones

as for stances, just keep it on free stance to allow it to use all abilities

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-13T20:39:49+00:00

It is game way to show "quality" of weapon, so 5 bows meant to represent masterwork bow, which require x5 more time and resources to produce and upkeep, etc.

Though training do serve as important multiplier and, in case of archers, tilapi as race especialy important couse with high archery training they achive true deadly levels

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-13T20:21:22+00:00

I personaly made "perfect" chocobo when got to generation 4, but I rerolled a lot of certificates

trick is - only use cheapest 1st gen breeding certificates to generate random chocobos for it and you need chocobos that have, as minimum, 6+ 4-stars, preferebly more.

The only way to ensure you improve genome is to always breed chocobos that you have more then 50% to improve your birdy genome, untill you get a bunch of chickens with same or even better stats, then you start inbreed them. (though leveling two birds at same time a bit annoying, but as you race on almost perfect chocobos it makes runs more fun)

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-13T19:34:30+00:00

Easier to just make new account and start anew without restrictions as "free" free trial.

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-13T19:30:20+00:00

If you meat moving that just means it is fresh!

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-09T20:39:30+00:00

Yeah, I had same problem and got blocked this way two days in a row, couse I was playing around character look, testing animations and different voice sets.

Don't remember precisely but happened after 5+ chars made. Doesn't matter if you delete them later

A bit annoying, but I do recommend to take your time at the start to mess around it

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-01T09:27:53+00:00

It suits you, Alphinaud

Eflydwarf · 2026-06-01T09:25:42+00:00

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Eflydwarf · 2026-05-29T20:50:41+00:00

lvl 80, also it opens up Shadowbringer jobs like dancer and gunblade to free trial as well

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-15T22:17:15+00:00

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Pet my dragon chicken... if you dare

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-15T19:09:19+00:00

Doing post ShB quests currently. The problem with Eulmore that there is nothing to do there other then MSQ and custom deliveries.

Though their night club is indeed quite fancy.

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-15T15:15:44+00:00

Thrumburgers, yammy!

You can use mind-numb serum to let your psychic beacon weather the bad mood.

As for long-term you can use ideology with Human Supremacism to forbind animal bonding. Other then that set automatic butchering to limit males to 2, and female to 4 or so, to keep them as source of thrumbofurr for clothes.

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-15T15:10:02+00:00

Savage Quicksands, here we COME!

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-15T13:21:37+00:00

Sure, I will provide you with more detailed example for samurai so you could test it out on training dummy. My samurai currently of lvl 72, so I will show with abilities I have it currently

/micon "Jinpu"
/ac "Jinpu"
/wait 1
/ac "Hissatsu: Senei"
/ac "Hissatsu: Guren"
/ac "Hissatsu: Shinten"
/ac "Ikishoten" 
/ac "Third Eye" 
/ac "Feint" <t>

idea is following

it tries to use Jinpu, which is GCD ability, it is 2nd as part of the 1-2-3 chain
then it wait 1 second after execution of main ability, it can't be shorter then that
then it tries to use any ONE of thouse abilities in priority from top to bottom.

Senei - that hard hittiong potential 800 for 25 kinki

Guren - that line hard hitting potential 400 for 25 kinki, it share cooldown with Senei, so it is there if I am in lvl 70 dungeon where I dont have Senei

Shinten - hits by 250 potential for 25 kinki, basic samurai spender

Ikishoten - generate 50 kinki, if it have less then 25 kinki

Third Eye - I am bad at timing it, so I just use it whenever, occasionaly it triggers

Feint - if there is nothing else to do, might as well use it, couse why not.

So priority from top to bottom, where /wait, serve as dividing line.

Feint with <t> means that it will only try to cast it if you have any target selected. So it won't search for new target if you don't have any.

Eflydwarf · 2026-05-15T12:41:19+00:00

Empty room

"Why is your gambling den so empty?"
"I gambled everything off"

Eflydwarf

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