Benediction... when to use?

[sulci]

in my experience, (60+ whm) if you had a pld who'll invince the mob off you, you'll live for sure.

otherwise, in the case you pt with a nin tank, the pld cant pull it off of you, and are not close to zone, you'll most likely die.



lots of people say you should just put up blink and stoneskin before you have to bene, as its foreseeable. (note: unless it was something insanely obvious like pulling some monster way way too hard, but most of the time this wasnt the case).

for me, this was never the case, as the huge long cast times for these spells, and they take a chunk of mp i could have salvaged for healing. (i think it really adds up).

so unless they were already on, im 99% sure i wont cast them just to bene -o-.

not to mention, a LOT of monsters take off your stoneskin so fast, it'll be one or two hits, and if they mob isn't dead, you're still screwed.

so basically all i did was wait until the very very last minute to bene (hope the monster has no tp to kill the tank -o-) so the monster and tank were so close to dying, i HAD to bene, and the pt could hopefully finish it off before it finished me off

its not so bad now that i have reraise 2 tho

[Kaylyn]

ok, here's a good example of how i think benediction should be used. feel free to disagree.
Couple nights ago went to the jungle to lvl me whm, (now at 27), and we had an excelent grp put together. Thf, Pld, Rdm, another melee i don't remeber right now, me whm/brd and my lvling buddy going smn/whm. All night we were doing pretty good. The majority of the team had hit 26, 27 and with 2 healers and my acc bonus song from brd we were chaining em pretty good but the exp was getting kinda thin. So we decided to take out a gob. You guys all remeber the Goblin Smithies from the jungle. (pointing out the anygry throbbing veins at the memories) Well, things were going ok, til it decided to use Bomb Toss, not once, but twice. Now what happened next is the perfect image of a pld and whm in perfect synch with each other. I used benediction. He then used his Two-Hour, Invincible I think it's called. Whatever, my point is we did it almost simutaneously, saving the entire grp and never had need for 2 hours later that night. See, PLD's 2-hour can always take the hate from a Benediction. Using benediction not only relies on a good whm, knowing when to use it, but also a good tank.

[Icemage]

Originally posted by sulci
in my experience, (60+ whm) if you had a pld who'll invince the mob off you, you'll live for sure.

otherwise, in the case you pt with a nin tank, the pld cant pull it off of you, and are not close to zone, you'll most likely die.



lots of people say you should just put up blink and stoneskin before you have to bene, as its foreseeable. (note: unless it was something insanely obvious like pulling some monster way way too hard, but most of the time this wasnt the case).

for me, this was never the case, as the huge long cast times for these spells, and they take a chunk of mp i could have salvaged for healing. (i think it really adds up).

so unless they were already on, im 99% sure i wont cast them just to bene -o-.

not to mention, a LOT of monsters take off your stoneskin so fast, it'll be one or two hits, and if they mob isn't dead, you're still screwed.

so basically all i did was wait until the very very last minute to bene (hope the monster has no tp to kill the tank -o-) so the monster and tank were so close to dying, i HAD to bene, and the pt could hopefully finish it off before it finished me off

its not so bad now that i have reraise 2 tho

You're not anticipating battle conditions far enough ahead of time if you haven't got time to cast at least Blink before activating Benediction.

The only times I have to use Benediction which wouldn't allow at least that much time are when a monster pulls out a huge WS on the tank unexpectedly and drops them deep into the red. Even then, an immediate followup with Flash/Blink/Stoneskin/Blink can hold the monster off for quite a while.

When I need to heal the whole party, I generally have time to cast Blink/Stoneskin beforehead. It's not hard to do once you know what signs to look for.


Icemage

[cavill]

I hardly ever use it, sometimes if my divine seal is not ready yet and a gobbie has exploded my party to red and yellow HP and im low MP i will use it (when the gobbie is dead) and thats probly the only useful time to use it, or at later lvls a PLD is able to pull hate off u but it takes some time, and u will need a good RDM to keep u healed.