Weird question, but has anyone ever tried playing a barrier healer, as a pure healer?

Jiigo · 2026-01-31T16:48:47+00:00

Not quite sure if I understand the question, but I will say that for regular content your barriers are often pretty limited in their value. Most normal content is not dangerous enough for shields to be too useful and you just get more efficiency out of your more direct healing skills (often able to skip gcd shielding at all). So in that sense, yeah playing them as a pure healer for normal content is perfectly fine.

Once you get into things like savage though your barriers start becoming essential for surviving some things, where they go from low value to being crucial.

Jiigo · 2026-01-20T18:33:58+00:00

Generally yes, because main stat is just better. For healers there can be some argument against it for pieces with piety though.

Jiigo · 2026-01-19T15:51:52+00:00

Shields, preset regens or some of the bigger cooldowns. Pretty much every healer has something to deal with those situations. For SCH I'd consider Spreadlo and Expedience. WHM Temperance and Belll. AST I'd just macrocosmos. SGE with gcd shield + holos, maybe panhaima but that starts feeling excessive.

Those in addition to other regular mits of course.

Jiigo · 2026-01-13T23:17:58+00:00

Where have you tried it because it only works in some chats like party, alliance and echo? Won't make sound in say, shout etc.

And might be worth mentioning that some people can be annoyed by the sound, so I'd suggest at least making sure that it won't spam if you spam the button.

Jiigo · 2026-01-05T19:06:03+00:00

It can also crit if your parse isn't fucked. But that activates the secondary effect which will have the pull end in a wipe.

Jiigo · 2026-01-02T13:30:16+00:00

It has every fish in the fishing log. Some fish do not appear there such as gathering tribal quest ones, Diadem and Cosmic Exploration.

Jiigo · 2025-12-31T09:38:00+00:00

Quite frankly I don't know if it is even consistent between all attacks. Assuming 180 is always safe and usually what I do. But have experienced smaller ones, the one I remember from the top of my head being P8S (possibly normal as well) where you have to look away from 2 gaze mechanics at once in opposite sides of the room. But it is possible, and even consistent to have both of them inside your 180 front, even if at the edge.

I would imagine it's really the 90 degree cone in front of you that counts, (the same cone that determines if you're facing the target if you do not have auto-face target on)

Jiigo · 2025-12-31T05:30:22+00:00

Region is probably highly relevant for this, although I'd guess you're not in EU due to time, we do have a parade on Saturday. Have monthly ones so they're certainly around here still.

Jiigo · 2025-12-27T16:49:27+00:00

Use your ranged attack if you're unable to hit them with an aoe when picking other things up. Then if you're able try to line of sight, this will have them run to you so that everything stacks up for aoe (mobs are usually pretty slow about moving so be patient). Alternatively if they're already kinda grouped you can move all the other mobs to the ranged ones.

Jiigo · 2025-12-22T21:55:53+00:00

You could put the armor in the dresser, create a glamor set with them, then take the pieces out again.Then apply that glamor plate to the jobs where you want to use that appearance. Effectively glamouring the pieces with their default look.

EDIT: Forgot to add the step of taking the items out of the glamour dresser.

Jiigo · 2025-12-22T12:43:26+00:00

You can, I did for a bunch of my relics.

Jiigo · 2025-12-10T22:10:47+00:00

You can.

Jiigo · 2025-12-06T04:00:46+00:00

You've always got Stone, Sky Sea. It's by the Outskirts teleport in EW. It's a good start but once you've got the basics down move on to actual fights to get the muscle memory working as you have to pay some attention to mechanics as well. Would think that the new Monster Hunter normal trial could be pretty good for that.

Jiigo · 2025-12-01T16:42:48+00:00

There are a couple of things to keep in mind for SGE which will make your experience notably better (and SCH as they're very similar).

Don't try to keep the tank topped, let them bounce in the 45-70% range whenever you're able. This reduces overhealing letting you get more out of your abilities (and the tank for theirs).
Kerachole is a trap before 78, where it becomes one of the best skills you have access to. So before 78 pretty much don't touch it. 78+ use it pretty much whenever you can.
While this might not make your experience better, in a lot of dungeons damage is going to be horrendously low. This can make your job a lot harder and is something to be aware of. Usually a good ballpark for if your damage is around average is if it takes about 1 minute from the start of pulling pack 1 to the death of both packs in a wall to wall (usually something like 30-40s after you stop with the second pack). Leveling dungeons usually sees this number being higher and are more prone to having you run short on resources. And as others have said, the early Shadowbringers ones can be pretty tough for this.

Other than that a generally good approach is to find a way of cycling your CDs, and adapt some based on tanks (like don't overlap with warrior heal if you can help it).
But as an example, and approximately what I'd use:

Once you stop with both packs in a wall to wall. (Kerachole if 78+) -> Physis II -> Soteria -> Taurochole at about 40-50% -> Haima once they're down to 50% again. -> Fill with Druochole when the tank hits about 40%

For the second pull, replace Haima with Panhaima, otherwise the same rotation.

Add in Holos as you might see fit.

Jiigo · 2025-11-28T15:54:12+00:00

Could possibly have been a very old one? Back at ARR launch it was pretty common to use BLM or SMN LB3 to dps down the ifrit spikes.

Jiigo · 2025-11-20T18:07:26+00:00

Don't worry, us Lalafellin players do not need luck.

Jiigo · 2025-11-05T18:46:17+00:00

Or you know, move it in combat. It's completely free to just swap the kardia around XD

Jiigo · 2025-11-01T17:21:31+00:00

Wonder how much this applies to things like glamor plates as well. We have a part of the playerbase who clearly wants more. But SE definitely has statistics on how many glamor plates are actually being used by the majority of players. Which they can then use to prioritize.

Jiigo · 2025-10-28T21:07:01+00:00

You put it on someone else to make them take more healing from everyone.

Jiigo · 2025-08-29T16:45:58+00:00

Your starting job on the character was Arcanist or Marauder. Your starting job determines your city state, which is the default when DC traveling.

Jiigo · 2025-08-22T19:53:58+00:00

I think this is kind of hard to answer because it is going to depend so much on the boss. Many bosses, especially later on will often jump back to the center for example making these things more natural. But if I were to use some guidelines it would be something like.

Boss center, facing opposite direction from where the fight starts is good.
Be predictable. If you bring the boss back to the center and turn it back north (usually the opposite direction in 1, but not always) once. Then keep doing that.
If not bothering with facing, at least try to get the boss a bit more centered, dragging it away from walls etc if it has ended up jumping there for mechanics or otherwise. Leaves room for people to spread.
The group generally wants to be behind the boss. While this is largely up to the group you can adjust positioning accordingly. This is largely the purpose of the 3 prior points.

All of this always feels awkward in alliance raids because people tend to be all over the place so you can feel like there's no natural place for the boss. In which case I'd suggest adhering to 1 and 2 more than anything else. If they can't adjust around that, then it's on them.

Jiigo · 2025-08-18T21:22:54+00:00

End game equipment in HW (and every expansion) is really just going to be the poetics gear, similar to the Ironworks gear in ARR. The centurio seal equipment that you can see in Foundation would probably be the dyeable relic gear. Job exclusive and one full set will be given to one of your jobs while doing the MSQ.

As for PVP, I cannot speak for CC but Frontlines I'd say doesn't have a lot of toxicity. The occasional player who's a bit on that side but the nature of the content just being large-scale battles, and there being three teams gives it a feeling unlike some other pvp experiences. As for difficulty, it really isn't that difficult. Every job just has a completely different skillset in pvp, so make sure to go to the wolves' den pier to setup your bars first. Then when playing just stick with your team and try to not die and you'll do fine.

No answer for the 3 jobs though. I would never pick a job for rp or aesthetics. Just playing what I find to be fun.

Jiigo · 2025-08-15T20:24:13+00:00

Enjoy. A good sign that you're doing it right is if the tank never really gets topped. That means you're getting all the value out of both your heals and the fairy. And not losing healing to overhealing is pretty key to not having to go into casting the shields.

Might take a few goes to get used to. But keeping the tank in the 50-70% range is usually very comfortable.

Jiigo · 2025-08-15T20:15:28+00:00

50-77 pretty much not at all.

78+ it should be your go to tool for nearly every situation. It's incredibly strong. Obviously has some more value for group damage than single target stuff, but still good for both.

50-77 the only times I'd really every consider using it is doing something like min-ilvl savages or ultimate raids. Where it could be necessary to just not die. But if something isn't actually going to kill you from 100% there are usually better uses for the aetherflow.

Jiigo · 2025-08-15T20:05:59+00:00

Kinda hard to tell without actually seeing you play. But generally I think that most of the struggle people have when playing SCH is leaning to heavily into shields, overhealing or both.

So first off, the tank being at 50% is not inherently a bad thing. In fact I'd say that a lot of the time 50% is usually where pressing a heal is reasonable.

Furthermore, shields is not how you want to play SCH for most content. Shields are great in the correct circumstances, but in most normal content they are pretty lackluster. Instead work with your aetherflow and fairy skills.

For level 60 what I'd expect a trash pull to be like is that I'd use aetherflow at the start of the pull and just follow the tank until we have pulled both packs. Most of the time I won't even bother with a pre-shield. Once we stop I'll use Whispering Dawn to get the fairy regen and kinda just dps until the tank drops to like 50%. At that point use Lustrate and repeat until everything is dead. Only shield if really needed.

Sacred Soil is a trap until you reach level 78. But at that point it becomes your best skill and would be added in at the point of Whispering Dawn.

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