Anyone have any tips on how to heal?

If you're taking aggro, it means that you healed whoever the mob was attacking before he/she established aggro on the mob. So either A: Tell said person to use more AoEs or B: Don't heal until you're confident he/she has aggro/will catch aggro.

First, the only way to not get aggro is to make sure that whomever you are healing, or someone else has aggro before you heal. It's easier for you to rez them than for you to die and have to come back into the instance or back to where you were.

My healing strategies depend on where I am.

FB/BH where the tank is taking epic damage:
Wellspring > IH > Wellspring > Rejuvenation > repeat

Questing/Grinding:
IH > Wellspring > Repeat or
IH > IH > repeat or
Wellspring > Rejuvenation

It all depends on what is happening with who you are healing. Wellspring is good for quick healing. IH is good for healing that doesn't require too much constant large doses of healing, as it heals over time. This is great for bosses. Rejuvenation is nice for when being hit for a lot in a short amount of time. Right now mine is at level 2 and it heals for 750 + 26% of my base magic and does another 750 Heal Over Time.

As you play more, you'll find that different heals apply to different situations. I must say though, I never use Pureheart unless it's to remind myself that it's there.

And best of all --- don't be nervous about being the only cleric, especially if you've run the instance before or are familiar with the situation.

+1 for the poster above me. Let them die. If you haven't laid a heal on them and they don't aggro all the mobs then you won't get aggro when he's dead. So long as you're still alive that's all that matters since you can rez without wasting everyone's time and porting out. Then before you rez them you can explain the importantce of aggro-ing all mobs.

It is usually in fb51 that I see a change in player prowess. As you go down the first few halls there is a group of mobs with one range mob around the corner. An inexperienced tank will run up to the center of the mobs, AoE and assume he has aggro on the ranged mob and that is all. Since it is around the corner the cleric can't see the graphics to know if that mob was aggro'd so what happens. Well if it is an experienced tank he will notice this right away and attack that ranged mob to get aggro. If it is an experienced cleric he will wait until he sees the tank do so before healing. Maybe even yell "Aggro ALL mobs" as you wait.

If you do heal the tank then you have to count on the experience level of the others in your squad and hope they see you pulled heal aggro and instead of just dd-ing they peel off to take aggro form you. The best thing you can do if you get aggro is as they say above. Stand your ground and try and heal yourself. Hopefully someone in your squad will be paying attention, but if not run TO THEM not away from them. If you run away from them they can't get to the mob to pull him off. Also when and if they finally do you will be far away from the tank who is no doubt getting lower on health and guess what? If he dies, because you were healing him you could be next in line for that entire groups aggro.

Everyone assumes a cleric's number one job is to keep the tank alive. WRONG! A cleric's number one job is to keep himself/herself alive. Then the tank.

Lastly to clarify a misuse of terms. You can't over heal someone. If you are only healing someone and they have aggro on all mobs you will not over power their aggro and steal a mob off them. I recommend for bosses to spam IH and IH only. IH will stack and therefore actually deal much more healing power then a wellspring will. Wellspring has it's uses, but really just for a quick boost outside of combat. Chromatic healing also has it's uses if your party gets hit by a boss AoE. But the tank should always be IH with only a few exceptions in certain TTs and FC runs.

Cheers

Rejuvenation cancels out IB's stack last time I heard....

IB>IB>IB>its pretty simple....purify when needed....

healing is very simple b:laugh
all you need to do is spam ironheart and purify when you can b:victory
and always remember if the tanker is annoying he gets no heals b:cool

Aya__ - Heavens Tear wrote: »

b:chuckle
1) pay attention

Yes!! This is #1 rule for clerics, I've been in so many situations either as 1 of 2 clerics or when I'm on my veno or barb, and the other cleric isn't paying attention or goes afk.

Aya__ - Heavens Tear wrote: »

c) if someone other than designated tank drops in hp then:
- boss has aoe attack or a mob exploded after dieing. aoe heal squad if you have time
- its a veno and swapped mp and hp (very stressing for a cleric btw) may throw her nice wellspring if you have time
- its a bm with zerk axes and just got that zerk. hes ok, throw him nice ih if you have time. also: its a barb that used arma. hes ok. throw him stream if you have time
- its someone who stole aggro.

The suggestions for all these scenarios are good, but in these situations these other people in the squad should also be prepared with pots in case you aren't able to heal them - but if their hp drops and they don't use pots, just do your best. It's a pet peeve of mine for bm's using zerk weps when they're not tanking, they really need to be prepared with pots to take the stress off the cleric. I've been in situations with one particular bm from my guild taking massive damage from her zerk wep and I asked her not to use that weapon when she isn't the tank, and she kept using them in squad after squad - her hubby insisted that she'd use pots and not to worry about her, although I would still heal her if/when I could but it was annoying because she wouldn't ever use a different wep. In one squad I think she did die from the damage she was causing to herself combined with aoe damage and I just let her ..... I was playing both my barb and my cleric and had too much to worry about. So, when the boss was dead I res'd her.

Oh, and one thing I didn't see mentioned above - don't bother leveling purehearted heal once you have wellspring and ironheart, purehearted is a decent heal but too slow to cast. I've been kept quite busy as a cleric because many people won't use clerics who use purehearted, they've died too many times from clerics who use it.

lol this person asked for some healing tip so we all fire of Healing 101 and you've jumped to Healing 401. If you know your tank and have squadded with them and the group before then follow this method. Of if you are all well over the mobs level like say you're level 88 or 89 doing a bh69 run.

However if you are not well higher then the mobs, or more importantly the tank isn't and you've never run with them before I suggest an alternative if you want to lend fire support. Wait until the tank has aggro on all mobs, toss out a few IH to make sure they are stable. If you know what they can take for damage then only a few are needed. If you are not sure yet how they will hold up then on the first group test it out without switching to attack. Then you'll know for teh next group. Once you know then stack those IH as you need and click Assist Attack, fire off a few hits, back to IH the tank, attack, heal, etc. If you can't stop spamming IH and have the tanks health hold up for about 4-5 seconds without dropping then don't switch off to DD. By the time you realize his health is dropping too fast you will have a hard time catching up. If you have the lvl 79 Guardian skill you can toss it on him to help catch up.

I guess this all falls under pay attention lol. I prefer to see what the tank can take while paying close attention before I switch to DD. By starting off as DD then you may get a nasty surprise.

1. make sure all party members are within your BB area
2. open BB
3. go sleep
4. when u back to the game, ur character is already dead becoz all party members PK'ed u.

lol JK. Aya__'s suggestion is the best i think.b:victory

Nikamerece - Lost City wrote: »

FB/BH where the tank is taking epic damage:
Wellspring > IH > Wellspring > Rejuvenation > repeat

holy **** thats dangerous, >.> when my tank is taking 'epic' dmg its time to go full on IH and nothing else, unless your heals are just weak as.

b:bye
one: set afk macro
two: pop mp regen
three: pewpew

Deceptistar - Sanctuary wrote: »

holy **** thats dangerous, >.> when my tank is taking 'epic' dmg its time to go full on IH and nothing else, unless your heals are just weak as.

that tank fails.

tukiyem wrote: »

1. make sure all party members are within your BB area
2. open BB
3. go sleep
4. when u back to the game, ur character is already dead becoz all party members PK'ed u.

lol JK. Aya__'s suggestion is the best i think.b:victory

i did that once but not on purpose, i fell asleep. as i woke up(2 hours later) i found myself lying dead, and surprisingly they havent finish that hh, and they didnt want me to burn my mp hiero so they killed me -.-''', happened like 7 months ago

You want to stay at the backlines at all times don't bother running up front to attack as you have enough dds.This will prevent you from aggroing and ask others to take out mobs ahead.

You can always let the tank die, but it usually leads to a worse off situation. If you want to keep the tank alive, and are worried about aggro from other mobs, the best advice I can give is to IH a few times before the tank goes in. Make sure the last IH hits before the tank is close enough to aggro, or you will get all the aggro. This should keep tank near full for 10 second at least, so he can aggro everything. If the tank doesn't get aggro, throw a stream of rejuv on him at around 60% of his hp, then be ready to IH yourself 2-3 times if mobs come at you. Continue focus healing yourself until the mobs are off you. Only heal others if it's a dire need and you feel you can survive the second of not healing yourself.

If this is a constant problem with a specific tank, ask a DD to tank the extra mobs and focus heals on them. Blader is of great use here from their aoe's and phys defense.

When the squad attempts to take on mobs, try to stay in the center of the action (unless there's aoe), in case you need to do a squad heal. If something goes wrong and you're far far away, and more than a few squad members are dying, there's a chance they'll die before you can be in range for everyone.

Trayous - Sanctuary wrote: »

Most importantly dont squad me when im tired if you want to live b:laugh

I wouldn't mind.

I would suggest to always keep lvling up you IH when ever you can.

If its a squad boss and there is a tank just spamm on him with ironheart whenever you can,
and like Scleric said- and always remember if the tanker is annoying he gets no heals