new player general thoughts/questions

[layoneil]

Im new to healing in games and noticed some later game stuff there are two healers so how does each healer know who they heal?

also depends on the content and depends on the jobs.

some places you have two tanks taking damage at the same time, so you pair up the healers and the tanks.

also many healing abilities overlap pretty well, one healer can put up a Shield while the other healer puts up Regen.

and in a lot of cases, one healer heals, the other healer goes into Cleric Stance and DPS.

[Silenka]

some places you have two tanks taking damage at the same time, so you pair up the healers and the tanks.

God I hate when people do this. It might be necessary for raid content (idk) but it's just a sign of weak healers if they feel the need to do this in the regular faceroll stuff. And lo, every time I've been "assigned" a tank by some DF healer they've been total shit. Who woulda guessed. Often you will wind up with a situation like that where you have to carry the other healer (or at least it seems I end up in that situation a lot).

Better points are about one dpsing while one heals, and one shielding while another regens. If you have two AST, one better be in the opposite stance from the other. If you have a SCH and a WHM you're golden. If you're an AST and you wind up paired with a SCH, probably better to go Diurnal (regen) stance unless you seriously need AST's particular shielding powers (bubble, instashield) for something. But all of this stuff should and generally does happen without anyone actually speaking to each other about it. Use your own judgment, you get a feel for what you're supposed to be doing pretty quick.

[Elcura]

It "might" be necessary? Have you never done a current raid before?

[Silenka]

I haven't done coil or savage, even, no. Not for lack of being able to, but not wanting to commit the time and energy to keeping a schedule with a static. I've said that multiple times across the forum and you might notice how I never have anything to say about raid content, because I don't do it so I have no useful input on it.

[Rocl]

The only shit that needs assigning for healers is when I'm using Eye for an Eye and Supervirus

[Kiarax]

I think split healing responsibilities was more of a thing when clearing Coil was actually something perfectly reasonable for the average player. It's not a bad idea and can be helpful when dealing with average (or below average) healers and tanks. In Alex Savage the standard of players needs to be a little higher, so even though both A1 and A2 might be reasonable places for it it's far less common. Typically the WHM/AST will do as much as they can and the SCH will pick up whatever slack is necessary.

[BaneTheBrawler]

we assigned healer/tank pairs for a1s, but we also never cleared it, so... yeah.

it is helpful for me when there's big hits coming in to both tanks simultaneously, because it's a sort of automatic triage. I can heal tank A safe in the knowledge that tank B has his own heals coming in, rather than dropping lustrates on both. lets me save those lustrates for when they're actually needed.

anything where the damage is not synchronized or not tank-buster tier, it's not really that helpful.

[Ragnus]

Is it still possible to obtain a Diamond Breaker?

[Raldo]

Are you asking if ShivaEX still drops weapons? I mean, I haven't done it since the patch (as I imagine most haven't), but I don't see why it wouldn't...?

[Ragnus]

Mixed information found on the internet I guess. Nevermind. Not all site list the True Ice Breaker DRK arm as a possible drop from the trial.

[Rocl]

Mixed information found on the internet I guess. Nevermind. Not all site list the True Ice Breaker DRK arm as a possible drop from the trial.

The only site you should realistically trust says it does!

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...y/6a16cf0c4cd/

[Ragnus]

I can provide a screenshot later, but how is it possible to get the "To the Dungeons IV" and "To the Dungeons V" achievements at the same time when V requires ten more unique clears than IV?

[solracht]

those achievements were added with HW, weren't they? if you did the 2.1-2.5 dungeons before HW you'll get both at the same time

[Rocl]

I can provide a screenshot later, but how is it possible to get the "To the Dungeons IV" and "To the Dungeons V" achievements at the same time when V requires ten more unique clears than IV?

exactly what solracht said, the achievements were retroactively completed when they added HW, but you needed to complete one dungeon to unlock them (all achievements need something to activate them, i had satisfied the requirements for all the minion achievements before 3.1, but since the actual achievements were added in 3.1 they didn't unlock until i used another minion)

[Ragnus]

Makes sense. We were doing Dusk Vigil and the person who got the achievements was a first timer.

[aldo]

Did they change the amount of beast tribe quests you can do? I am now level 4/trusted and still only have three quests available at 50 rep each. Before you could do the higher rep ones and the lower rep ones as well...

[Shaano]

Locks you to 3 per day no matter the rank. Unless you do 1-2, rank up, turn in last quest from previous rank and then pick up 3 new ones.

[The Stig]

Prior to 3.1 I was doing 12/day and can pick up as many as 9/tribe (leaving 3 left for other tribes).

But it was definitely not 50 rep each, unless in the patch they locked it back to 3 per day but massively increased the rep gains.

[Rocl]

I don't know about old world beastmen post 3.1, but the Vanu Vanu are 3 per day.

It actually makes some degree of sense: every quest-giving NPC in the tribe would give you 3 per day. For most tribes, there were 3 quest-givers for a total of 9/day. For the Vanu Vanu, there is only one. Therefore, 3 quests per day forever.

[Pruviant]

Old beastmen quests let you do 3 per npc for a total of 9. 5, 7 and 10 rep respectively for a total of 66 rep per day. Vanu is 3 per day for a total of 150 ... pretty sure they are cutting us a break here lol.