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  • #1

    Early Main-Healing

    I'm about to head out to Qufim, where I expect I'll be doing a little main-healing duty, but I wanted to ask you summoneres out there how you manage to keep up with damage when the only healing spell you have (assuming whm sub) is cure I? Obviously hate isn't a problem, but when you're limited by a single curing spell, how do you keep up with AOE's like Stonega and such.

    I ran into the same problem in Valkurm Dunes as well. Is there a way to manage it that I'm missing, or do we need co-healers?
    Biggest Accomplishment: Level 20 avatar fights
    Ifrit 1/1; Garuda 1/1; Shiva 1/1; Titan 1/1; Ramuh 1/2; Leviathan 1/3 (and record time for Garuda server)
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    Re: Early Main-Healing

    I don't have alot of experience as a smn, but from how I see it, in the early lvls they still do decent dmg. Main curing with cure1 is a bad idea. I would join as a DD and backup heal.
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    • #3
      Re: Early Main-Healing

      You'll get Cure II by level 22, but that doesn't really help you until then. I agree with Hamlet.
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      • #4
        Re: Early Main-Healing

        Cure 1 can work for main healing, but as Hamlet said, generally isn't a good idea. It would be ok though, if you could get a party with one or two NINs tanking or ever a good, well-equipped PLD, but otherwise it's a death sentence for the tank.

        Land Worm casts Stone II.
        <Tank> takes 140 points of damage. orz
        <Healer> casts Cure on <Tank>.
        <Tank> gains 30 hp.

        [e d i t] Of course acquiring cure II at Lv.22 alleviates this issue.
        Last edited by Ryddr; 06-20-2006, 10:05 AM.


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        • #5
          Re: Early Main-Healing

          I'm probably going to just solo to 22 once I get my avatars. Avoidance ftw!

          But I would say, no, you probably can't main heal effectively. Hell, I felt out of my league trying to do it as RDM from 20-22 without Regen. I mean, if your parties are killing worms as quickly as they should be, you might be okay catching people up after the fights, but chains are out of the question.
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          • #6
            Re: Early Main-Healing

            I wasn't asked to main heal until I hit 32 on SMN, which is where I am now. Honestly, I've found it nowhere near as difficult to avoid main healing as people make it out to be.
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            • #7
              Re: Early Main-Healing

              Bring juices if all else fails.

              I remember being in a party and being the only person who had MP in Qufim Island. It was painful without even Cure 2 (let alone Regen) and there was a lot of downtime, but with some carefully anticipated Cure 1's, it's doable.
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              • #8
                Re: Early Main-Healing

                I'm in Qufim currently and have had a few smn in the parties with me. None of them were asked to main heal, they put out some fairly nice damage especially with a magic burst. Main healing without cure2 seems a bad idea, just put "DD only till lvl22" in your search comments. People don't seem to want to sc though so you might have to force them.
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                • #9
                  Re: Early Main-Healing

                  Well I currently am lvling smn on another character and I'm at the dunes stage. I will not join a pt where I am the only healer. When I get an invite, I ask if I will be the only healer in the pt and if they say yes, I decline. I have more fun solo'ing than I do trying to frustrate myself in a pt where I have to watch people die because my Cure 1 spammage isn't enough.
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                  • #10
                    Re: Early Main-Healing

                    Originally posted by TheGrandMom
                    Well I currently am lvling smn on another character and I'm at the dunes stage. I will not join a pt where I am the only healer. When I get an invite, I ask if I will be the only healer in the pt and if they say yes, I decline. I have more fun solo'ing than I do trying to frustrate myself in a pt where I have to watch people die because my Cure 1 spammage isn't enough.
                    I adopt this philosophy towards Valkurm no matter what job I'm leveling.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Early Main-Healing

                      I see. I was forced into main healing once or twice in the dunes; after trying it once I began requesting back up healers at every change up of the party. I just wanted to know if this was a failing on my part or a general state of the job. I suppose I've been reading too many threads that claimed that summoners were pigeon-holed as healers from the first time they summoned carby.
                      Biggest Accomplishment: Level 20 avatar fights
                      Ifrit 1/1; Garuda 1/1; Shiva 1/1; Titan 1/1; Ramuh 1/2; Leviathan 1/3 (and record time for Garuda server)
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                      • #12
                        Re: Early Main-Healing

                        I usually won't main heal until 28 or 29, and that's if there's a good tank and someone to back-up heal.

                        In Qufim, I amazed a lot of people pulling off 150+ MB with Thunderspark.
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                        • #13
                          Re: Early Main-Healing

                          summoner's were not pigeon holed as healers until i reached about level 50. This was about 4 months after the job was released. The update that added skillchain/magic burst to avatars undid that for a while, but then it was back as usual. I think no matter how you play summoner, its completely unrealistic to main heal unless you have a moderate cure for that level.
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