How to use my full potential as a Mystic ?

Healing as a Mystic is a little deceptive. Other classes can't really tell what we're doing some of the time.
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It's magic!

The good base plant to throw down in a fight is Healing Herb, however it does tend to die pretty fast from AoEs. In a large pull, sometimes you'd be better off casting Listless Blossom instead. This keeps casting an AoE sleep effect on all the mobs. While it doesn't seem too helpful reading the skill, Listless keeps casting sleep over and over. Not actually worrying about the duration, this plant works great as a constant interrupt against mobs. Sometimes letting Listless work as crowd control is far more useful than waiting for Healing Herb to actually heal.

At the start of a big pull, the moment you stop running, Vital Herb is a good one to use if you have the chi to spare. At lv 100+ I prefer Gaia's Blessing as it uses the same amount of chi. Casting both of them is over kill. Gaia's Blessing works like an AoE heal based on YOUR location. If you move, the spell moves with you. If you see someone is fighting out of range, you just move closer to them and then it heals them on the next tick.

Comforting Mist... this is pretty much the same thing as a clerics Chromatic Healing Beam. Slow and useless. It's a backup heal for backup healers. If you're in a sq of 10 people and don't know who's going to get aggro... sure throw it out there. It'll heal someone... eventually. Rapid Growth can speed it up a little bit but it is still your slowest skill and should not be relied upon.

And that leaves us with our single point heals.
Break in the Clouds is the fastest heal in the game. If you really need to, combine with rapid growth for a rapid spam of non-stop healing on a difficult boss. Most of the time I find rapid growth isn't really needed as the speed alone makes this pure heal win. Speed alone makes a Mystic single target heal better than a Cleric single target heal any time. Sage Mystics get a nice bonus with an add on purify % chance.

Falling Petals... the only spell that makes me wish I were a demon Mystic. You can always preemptive heal someone or everyone with Falling Petals before a pull. You'll never need to worry about early heal aggro if you prep with this spell. The party will run in and after 9 seconds it will start healing. A great skill to make up for the lack of heal over time spell (Ironheart Blessing) we seem to be lacking. If you are demon, this will last a whole 5 minutes before expiring. Normally it will last 1 minute. If the player takes no damage before then it will just go away. For solo healing, when Falling Petals buff goes away, feel free to recast it as often as you are able. The moment you think "what else could I do to help?" that's exactly when you should be verifying Falling Petals is still around.

Bonus fact about Falling Petals: If a player is shielded by salvation's twin flower buffs then Falling Petals does not activate. It will only trigger the 9 second timer from a hit that occurs after the twin flower buff goes away.

And finally Salvation. This. This is what makes Mystic healing different from Cleric healing. Salvation doesn't directly heal, she reduces damage. A lot of damage. This saves not only HP, but also will reduce the repair bill at the end of the day, making for some very happy HA users. Even with another cleric in sq. if I'm responsible for backup heals, I will happily keep salvation buffs on for the repair reduction alone. Salvation skills are so powerful it can turn just about any class into a good tank, even yourself.

Yes you can solo heal you don't have to be 100 with 100 skills. From hands on experience, at your lvl you can solo heal fcc, bh89 and below and "some" tt squad bosses.

HolyMyst - Harshlands wrote: »

interesting, ok so how about the big fc room where a seeker would vortex, how would you solo heal him ? I tried it with vital herb alone but he died almost instant ...

You cannot rely on Vital Herb alone. The herb is mostly there for backup AoE heals. When you are solo healing, you will have to give up DD for long periods of time. You're going to be spamming Break in the Clouds a lot on the primary tank in the sq.

Always remember your pet commands are on an independent channeling system then your own commands. While you are casting a heal you can still command salvation to generate a new shield. On the initial pull, if the boss has a high hit, use the second spell Salvation has. It will drain her MP very fast because her MP is absorbing all that damage. As soon as salvation is empty, just summon a new salvation to start out with 50% MP again. Much faster than using Transference in the middle of a fight.

Caster is a version of the Palace of Nirvana instance. Nobody does it any longer because Nation Wars made raps and cannies super cheap.

Mystics have the highest damage per second of any caster class and invigorate helps everyone's damage. That makes them desirable in any instance where a sin can't faceroll bosses.

HolyMyst - Harshlands wrote: »

interesting, ok so how about the big fc room where a seeker would vortex, how would you solo heal him ? I tried it with vital herb alone but he died almost instant luckily it was a friend of mine but they had to bring their cleric cause the seeker had most lvl 80 gears, do I do the same with the combination of FP and Bitc ? or would using does constantly make me pull aggro more than the seeker that is vortexing ? .

If you are referring to when he does the big pull in the big room (or half the room, then the other half), all you need to do it run up to him (if he has worked with a Mystic before, he will probably run right up to you) and place BOTH your Vital and Healing Herbs down.

This action acts as a 'fake BB', in that those who stay close by will generally take enough heals to stay alive throughout this attempt to clear the room. Its good on bosses too, as the plants usually keep the same status in FC even if the entire squad is a frog, or frozen for a spell.

It doesnt prevent any damage, like a cleric's BB does, but it practically accomplishes the same ultimate goal of helping keep the squad from wiping. It also frees the Mystic up to heal and DD as needed. If you throw a non-healing plant down, Healing Herb will disappear and the 'fake BB' effect is no longer present.

You can easily solo heal anything for your level other than BH69, and even in BH69 as long as no one needs Pole (and you might include Nob, depending on if you feel he can wipe you too fast) you can still solo heal.



*ghost moves along* Have fun with it. It used to be a great char to play! b:bye

ShadeParadox - Raging Tide wrote: »

And finally Salvation. This. This is what makes Mystic healing different from Cleric healing. Salvation doesn't directly heal, she reduces damage. A lot of damage. This saves not only HP, but also will reduce the repair bill at the end of the day, making for some very happy HA users. Even with another cleric in sq. if I'm responsible for backup heals, I will happily keep salvation buffs on for the repair reduction alone. Salvation skills are so powerful it can turn just about any class into a good tank, even yourself.

Most of what you said is true except for a couple of points.

1) an ironheart stack is still the best heal in pve due to its heal-over-time nature that lasts for 15 seconds

2) shields do not, unfortunately, reduce repair bills. Repair bill is never determined by HOW MUCH damage the target takes, only HOW MANY TIMES they get hit. For example, in delta, a cleric by the auras gets hit for '1' dmg repeatedly from the auras/buffs. That cleric may never get hit the entire delta run by a single mob, yet he/she may have a sizeable repair bill afterwards, due to the many '1' dmgs that damaged the gear. Also, while not spammable, clerics do have wings of protection, which does place a 'shell' of sorts on the target, so mystics aren't entirely unique in this aspect. All of this being said, your point about salvation being great for keeping people alive is still very true. Just be prepared to take a huge hit to your mana (I'd even go as far as to say that, if you want to really tank well with salvation, you should equip a mana charm, just like every good cleric in pvp does).

Yes you must pay xp and spirit to learn the skills once you have the books. I think it's 3m coins for 100 skills. Each Morai order has one of the mystic 100 skills available, or you can make one of your choice with 20 chrono pages.

An instance is any "dungeon" in the game, basically anything other than the world map. Morai is an instance, and Endless Universe is an instance within that instance.

HolyMyst - Harshlands wrote: »

ok got a lot of info on using skills and advice really appreciate it, and I know all the gears in the world wont do you any good if you cant use your class well, and since majority of the skill stuff have been answer, what about the gears now which gears and weapons are worth going after for a mystic and how you all farm money and stuff for them other than doing jones, I have also heard that the r7 mystic pants are better than the r8 one, is that really true ?

As said yes R7 pants are better, but majority of people that did used them was cause they was R8 which was the best back in time, now there's no point to go R8 unless you plan to go R9 or get a R8r weapon for def. lvl.

If you plan full G16 nirvana than don't waste money on rank stuff.

For the money it depend, right now my main money income is NW, cause I'm too busy lvling to farm money.

But there's planty of way to do money.

any chance someone could list the morai gear?

How does 'warding level' work?