Question about healing

[LiadansWhisper]

I'm waiting for the Addon API to be done

 

 

There are addons?

 

There will be!  They are writing the Addon API now!  They just had to also write one for the PS3 and the PS4, since they seem to want them to be able to use Addons, too.  

 

I've also noticed that debuffs aren't sorting correctly since the patch.  They frequently scroll off the 5 buff/debuff limit on the party frames, even if they're serious debuffs.

 

It's particular debuffs that are affected - most notably, the one that decreases healing done on the one afflicted. Dev posts have implied they're aware of the issue, so hopefully it's fixed swiftly.

 

I cannot wait for addons. The buff/debuff part of the party UI makes me cringe. That and all of the superfluous information.

 

Yes.  I sometimes want to yell when I see all of these dumb short-term buffs on certain classes.  Like I need to know that the Monk is coverting Mana into TP?  o_O  Or that JoeBob has one of the FC buffs up?  >.<

 

The buffs I noticed were Disease, Damage Vulnerability, and very randomly, the Poison would scroll off.  The poison debuff issue isn't consistent, but it happened several times in the last WP I was in, and on a Hydra fight I was in the other day.  Very annoying.

[KitKat]

Stoneskin is flat-out amazing

 

It's not. For 266 mana, you can place a shield on a target that absorbs damage equal to 18% of the target's HP. If your tank is a PLD and let's say, for the sake of discussion, that they're in full Darklight, then they probably have ~5.5k HP. That's a whopping 990 damage abosrbed. My Cure I can crit for well over 1k HP and regularly heals for 800. My Cure II heals for ~1.3k and can crit for nearly 2k. Cure II has the same cost as Stoneskin. Cure II's cast time is also significantly less than Stoneskin's. This makes Stoneskin horribly inefficient in a mana:heal ratio unless your tank happens to be a WAR (which, if the tank has 8k HP, would mean your Stoneskin is absorbing 1440 damage). Stoneskin is a spell you cast at the start of a fight or when you have nothing else to heal and feel like buffering your tank's HP a bit (and then it's only really worthwhile if your tank happens to be a WAR).

 

 

It doesn't seem like you understand. That 266 mana is not even a factor since you're mainly applying Stoneskin before fights happen, in which case your mana will regen to full anyway. You're not using Stoneskin while your tank is taking damage. You're using it before he does and in between damage spikes. Your Cure spells are for while he's taking damage.

 

The only time I cast Stoneskin is after a mob is killed or if during a boss fight (or any other fight, really) there is a lull in the damage taken. Otherwise, it's more efficient to cast Cure. 

 

You really should keep Stoneskin up on everyone in the party as often as you can.

[Naunet]

The only time I cast Stoneskin is after a mob is killed or if during a boss fight (or any other fight, really) there is a lull in the damage taken. Otherwise, it's more efficient to cast Cure. 

 

You really should keep Stoneskin up on everyone in the party as often as you can.

 

You're contradicting yourself with these two paragraphs. I subscribe mostly to the former school of thought, though I do use it with Swiftcast on the tank right before Mountain Buster in Titan HM. She doesn't need it, but a little extra mitigation doesn't hurt.

[KitKat]

I'm not contradicting myself. Read what I wrote again.

 

"...as often as you can."

 

You can't keep Stoneskin up on someone who's constantly taking damage. You can keep casting it on them, but

 

"Otherwise, it's more efficient to cast Cure."

[Naunet]

Then why are you telling me I don't understand Stoneskin when

 

The only time I cast Stoneskin is after a mob is killed or if during a boss fight (or any other fight, really) there is a lull in the damage taken. Otherwise, it's more efficient to cast Cure.

 

is exactly how I described I use it in previous posts?

[Flapjack]

Y'all motherfuckers need Thalos.

[LiadansWhisper]

Y'all motherfuckers need Thalos.

 

Look, you take your freaking bubbles and gtfo, Jack.

[Olofantur]

Y'all motherfuckers need Thalos.

 

Look, you take your freaking bubbles and gtfo, Jack.

 

And i'm just sitting here with my Val'anyr crying softly to myself...

 

At least I got mimys head before the nerf *sniff*

[Flapjack]

Y'all motherfuckers need Thalos.

 

Look, you take your freaking bubbles and gtfo, Jack.

 

I see how it is.  You're officially uninvited from Flapjack's Fantastic Fifth Annual Super Sacred Soil Extravaganza and bake sale.  Enjoy being out there in the cold while we dance the night away under the blue disco bubble while feasting on all the latest baked goods from the best pastry shops from all over Eorzea.

[LiadansWhisper]

Y'all motherfuckers need Thalos.

 

Look, you take your freaking bubbles and gtfo, Jack.

 

And i'm just sitting here with my Val'anyr crying softly to myself...

 

At least I got mimys head before the nerf *sniff*

 

*deep, regretful sigh*  I have two shards sitting in my bank to this day.

 

Two.

 

 

Y'all motherfuckers need Thalos.

 

Look, you take your freaking bubbles and gtfo, Jack.

 

I see how it is.  You're officially uninvited from Flapjack's Fantastic Fifth Annual Super Sacred Soil Extravaganza and bake sale.  Enjoy being out there in the cold while we dance the night away under the blue disco bubble while feasting on all the latest baked goods from the best pastry shops from all over Eorzea.

 

I SEE HOW IT IS.  JERK!  *runs away crying*

[K'dath]

Y'all motherfuckers need Thalos.

 

Look, you take your freaking bubbles and gtfo, Jack.

 

And i'm just sitting here with my Val'anyr crying softly to myself...

 

At least I got mimys head before the nerf *sniff*

 

*deep, regretful sigh*  I have two shards sitting in my bank to this day.

 

Two.

 

 

 

 

The pain of a Legendary so close, and yet so far...

/forever on Cinders portion of Dragonwrath