"I'm built stupid" I felt that

I cleared my first savage tier as a healer and man... There is something wild about learning how to deal with mechanics while also KEEPING EVERYONE ALIVE lmao

I think a lot of it boils down to this: when you're a DPS, even a tank, the healing you receive is automatic. It's something you take for granted, and a passive element that keeps you alive. As a Healer you ARE that element.

"I'm built stupid" As a healer main, I am warning you now, I can't heal stupid.

As an AST main I feel like you're forgetting a very very important trait of healer mains: We're not masochists. We're sadists. We love playing limbo with the party's health bar and seeing how low it can go without a wipe :D It's awesome.

As a healer main, never knowing what kind of party you're going to get is one of its most fun aspects. It's not a matter of mastering a static rotation, but rather constantly adapting. A useful thing when running a familiar dungeon for the umpteenth time.

I think the main issue I have from playing every class except healer is the complete shift in gameplay. Almost no other class has more than one, if that, ability that you pass onto a teammate. Dragoon's eyes or paladin's cover, as examples. With healer that completely shifts from having to target a player once-in-a-blue-moon to a constant 50/50 between your team and the enemies and it's a really weird change I can't really wrap my head around.

As a white mage main. I will agree with the use of rescue, however remember if there is a gap between you and the person you are rescuing, they will fall into the abyss. Keep that in mind

I remember this healer on Alliance roulette. We got Crystal Tower (no way!) and she was like "Ugh... can y'all please step on all of the AoE's so I can have something to do?"

1:05 When you use Clemency as Paladin one of two things happens.. 1. there is nothing to attack and/or 2. something went _terrible_ wrong.

It's hard when progging, after healing is snoozefest, everything is extremely predictable. So unless team is doing extremely bad, you are super bored and not using 90% of your buttons

The hardest thing about Sages is remembering the names of spells.

Kougan is a genius, hes doing a healing rotation in his video, he says good things, then gives us all emotional damage then says good things again healing the pain temporarily until he hurts us again

I'm not gunna lie, I naturally started my journey as a DPS (a couple of em actually), but just sorta of found the job a bit...stale in the sense I had a very set rotation to my abilities that started to get old. Once I saw a Sage in action for the first time, something in me screamed I had to try it. Between my damage output, balancing shields and heals, maintaining heals on my Addersgall to not waste resources, and just reacting differently to situations between my tools based on the actions of enemies AND allies, it definitely keeps it from getting too boring or feeling repetitive, at least for me. Oh and uh, once I got to use Sage LB3 in the O11 raid to revive like 5 people and full heal the rest before we kicked that big idiot's butt, I don't think anything in this game has ever compared to riding the high of that moment to me!

This is why Sage is my main healer The “im a healer but” *cocks lasers* class Great to see a video from you this was a fun ride!

I thought I was going to hate this video since I LOVE healing and LOVE WHM, but the shade was gentle and actually funny. Rather, it wasn't a hateful video at all, you were actually quite nice about healers; Instead of shitting on us you talked about how important we are c: Thank you Kougaon, now I don't have to make ANOTHER video about this shit ♥

Playing a healer in ANYTHING but endgame raids looks like this: 1. Press your aoe heal button. There you go, you just cleared the entire content.

how do i know we're in Kougaon's good old days? because he can't edit green screens well yet

I loved healing on FFXIV when I started because you used to basically be a DPS who managed your team mates and kept them tip top. Now you just cast the same DPS spell that barely does anything and the party doesn't need you. That or sometimes your tank is squishy and you have to burn through all of your cool downs just to keep his ass from dying. Very cool.

Ah Rescue... The single spell that has now made my FC mates have nightmares on mount farming nights... Hells' Kier is but the training ground for our true power as Gods of this game.

I'm weeping at how I feel like a green DPS, but wiping my tears with instant queue pops.

ive been a healer main since creator in heavensward. being a healer is basically being the only adult in a daycare trying to get the kids to all listen.

I always feel like a scolded child when I'm rescued.

I'll never forget when a healer had to use rescue on my dumb ass during the puppet's bunker because I got turned around and started attacking the wrong flight unit, there's braindead me wondering why I can't use my skills and why I'm not dealing damage for a good few minutes until I was suddenly yeeted back to my party. I felt so ashamed. Rescue truly is a well needed tool for idiots like me. :3

I was thinking okay with healing until I hit lvl 80 or so and then I found that I was struggling to balance between keeping myself alive avoiding the mechanics during boss battles. But after going to DPS for a while I think I’m better at mechanics because I’m not being distracted by hp bars. Once I’ve gotten the hang of boss mechanics fully, go back. See if I can do healing again.

I secretly still look for that stoneskin button to come back on whm. I know, never gunna happen.

If playing a healer is what is takes to run around with 4 laser machine guns floating above me then I’ll do it. “Phlegma Balls”

So true and I was a healer main and then I started doing paladin and then I realized I can actually understand mechanic when I'm not worried about other people's hp and I'm like wow. Don't get me wrong healers do have fun classes but I'm thinking I might be partial to be mainly a paladin on the side heal if my FC needs it.

Being a good healer basically boils down to being good at multitasking and knowing your skills and cool downs well. And having a stable Internet connection.

Really enjoyed this new professor Kougan format.

Yeah...I carried my alliance raid party through one of the Nier raids this past moog tome cycle because the other healer dc'd and...I ran out of fruit snacks, had to break up a few fights between the kids, and lost my car keys on the way to the final boss. And not one comm afterwards. There aren't tears enough for what my experience is like as a healer.

Late to the party but loving your content. Thank you so much!

I'm a healer main but just did prog as a melee dps for a bit to help with some FC mates and the difference is night and day. I was so chill, relaxed, composed, just focusing on my own rotations not a care in the world, doing mechanics, going where I need to go, etc. I was in my own little bubble. Every now and then I'd pop my head up to see that half the party have died to LC1 already. Maybe in 7.0 I'll go melee dps instead xD

I really like healing because I like the challenge of my primary job being everyone's survival. It gives me a lot to work with so I'm always paying attention to something: team HP, incoming mechanics, mitigation and buff windows, etc. I actually find playing tank and DPS to be mind-numbingly boring at times lol

IS THAT THE GARDENS MUSIC FROM LITTLE BIG PLANET? This guy knows what he's talking about I trust his every word

The number of times I've used Rescue to move people away from attacks and saving them gives me a God level ego and it's amazing

My main issue with healer is the stigma that comes with it. By that, I mean if someone, the dps, dies or worse a party wipe, the healer is instantly blamed for "not healing" even when the tank and dps have 4 plus vuln debuffs...I've healed it and I hate it. I once had a cutter's cry with a certified floor tank...he died 5 time total over 3 attempts. After the fifth time, I didn't revive him and we finished the fight with one dps.

Honestly, I'm so used to playing healer that the lack of stress in other jobs feels fundamentally wrong to me. Like, "What do you mean I don't have to worry about the rest of the party? That doesn't make sense!" And I can never get used to it.

Sage has a lot of stuff, but honestly sage is probably even easier than whm. You have free resources and a ton of extremely powerful mit tools, good healing, and it's all very direct. Especially for hard content, I cleared all of asphodelos on sage without even trying (I was a scholar main though, so... my perspective is going from scholar to easier scholar). I love icarus though

I picked up healing because I like playing a caster but I got sick of DPS queues also balancing healing and damage is honestly easier than trying to manage Enochian upkeep

weirdly i find white mage stressful, im a sage main now, and putting the aoe ukranian shield on everyone gives me a second to react, whms have divine benison for one person, and the regens are nice, but nothing like seeing an raidwide go off and the health bars barely move(and gettign a red skittle), heal based healers are reactive, shield healers are proactive. i did scholar too before ew, but man do they have limited damage options vs...well.everyone. very cool glams though, very harry potter.

bozja be like. 24 whms with profane spamming holy. Ive had all the darkness leached from my soul from that light.

best video, 10/10, love your microphone🥺💕

I main healer and one of the first times I was tanking, I was nervous about doing big pulls....so the healer just pulled me through the entire dungeon using Rescue. "If tank won't pull, you pull tank!"

Been playing healer since I started and I still love it. Great vid!

Clemency is a heal sure, but if you're casting that as a PLD, you've already lost. Warrior has absurd self-healing because... I have no idea.

I personally appreciate the balance Scholar has as a healer. Unfortunately I'm never really available in a static in my FC's social circles, so I've never really tested my mettle with the more recent savage raids but... ...fuck it! Class is fun, and the clutch moments you can pull off with their plethora of skills (especially late game) is hard to compare with the other healer classes. The others are strong in their own right, but this is where my vibe is at. Near a couple dozen res's on that P12 run a few days ago though... *internal screaming*

As someone who's been here since 1.0, I feel the veneration for WHM, since CNJ/WHM was the only choice back in the day...and I also didn't understand SCH when it first dropped. But after I tried SCH and learned how it worked, it's been my main healer job. It used to be quite different, with all the DoTs and the faeries having their own skillsets, but I still enjoy the inherent need to multitask which seems greater on SCH than the other healers (other than AST, which I also enjoy immensely - I miss the old card system and the ability to basically swap between shields and regens, though). Scholar really is a beast, and while it may not have the DPS output of SGE, it's still my favorite job to play aside from DRK.

Weirdly enough, it was the glam that got me try out Healers. Also I just really like Scholar's class fantasy. Now I am taking Astrologian out for a spin and enjoying myself, already got a decent lvl 90 glam assembled for it.

If your chroma-key software or what-ever you may be using for green-screening yourself in has the option for 'feather' or 'grow' I'd recommend setting it to 5-15 pxl, will help with the blue glow around you!

The hardest part about healing is learning the debuff symbols and which ones can be esuna'd, other than that a White Mage with Medica 2 geared for Determination and Crit Hit is almost all the healz you need. Then just DPS, swiftcast raise when needed. White mage makes healing super easy. You do need to pay attention to the left side of your screen alot more for HP and debuffs but once you learn to watch the left side and catch mechanic dances with your side vision, your good. Though I play all roles heaing is my favorite.

I cleared my first savage tier (e9s-e12s) as astro and man that shit was hard. After that I played reaper for p1s-p4s, then dark knight for p6s-p8s, and now I've made a full circle back to astro for p9s-p12s LMAO.

Good job Kougan! *lowers gun* Good job….

As a Tank Main I am built different. I am built INCORRECTLY

Amazing video! Don’t forget tank can watch shows also and when that happens healers can’t watch shows 😂

I use to main Scholar before switching to Red Mage. It was hard, but I felt a sense of pride being a healer keeping the party healthy. The times that I failed it was normally someone else being a d-ck, but still, I wasn't flawless, but I was good. Those moments when in a 8 player raids or boss fight and the other healer died, it felt good to revive them. (Unless they die for the 4th time, then I just get pissed...) But when I switched to Red Mage I went "Holy sh--! This is so easy!". It was as if I took off a 100 pound vest! Still, I do keep my Scholar level in check as I still love the class (and queuing is much faster as a healer). More than once though, while playing Red Mage, my Healer instincts kick in and I find myself Vercuring someone.... It did help though when our healer died in that one dungeon and I insta-casted a verraise as though it was second nature.

At least for regular content, AST is actually pretty chill. You can heal most content with just your cooldowns, you have a lot of ocgds that you can throw out whenever the going gets tough, maybe throw out some aspected helios and regular helios when a bunch of people took damage, you have two damage buttons you ahve to worry about, and after getting used to cards, you are pretty much gold. The only hard part is to know what cooldown to press when

love the bluescreen effect on the cap of your pen

I started this game as a White Mage and got it all the way up to 90, then I started levelling up different jobs and found this game is a lot more fun and a lot more easy doing simple DPS. Still, when I'm on Summoner, I tend to help with heals, but it's gotta be bad for me to do that, and I get a nostalgic little excitement when I rez someone.

I unironically became a healer main on accident. In the first MMO I ever tried out, I hated using potions and wanted a self-heal, but since the only class with a heal was a pure healer, I chose to stick with it and picked healing classes since. Also, as much as it annoys me when I'm unfairly blamed for someone's death, I still prefer healing since I know I can do it well.

"You are one of god's soldiers", ilu. :'D as an AST/SGE main, LB3'ing and spot healing is my dopamine fix. Great vid! And not just because it stroked my ego...maybe

WM be like: "Regen during big groups? Don't know what that is I'll just Holy all the time."

Hearing UNH was a jumpscare I wasn't expecting

As a healer main, I actually pray to be matched up with incompetent and undergeared groups that stand in aoes, because it forces me to wake up and pay attention.

What do you mean, healer is easy. The problem is other people. Once had a ninja who was just jumping and jiggling all over the place getting caught in AOE's making me burn my mana and reviving them two times BEFORE bosses. Healer isn't difficult to play, you just need to have patience.. a lot of it. As some players make you feel like you are babysitting someone who loves orange puddles, but the puddles are dangerzones.

"Healers don't have cool weapons" Bro trying to keep the sage floaty guns to himself xD

hii!! could you please tell me how did you make your rescue macro next to the party members?? 2:19

I'm a sprout on my first playthrough, and recently started to try learning White Mage because I want to get into healing. So anyway, 'Regen' my my new favorite skill. x'D I spam it whenever it goes low, because then the tank basically self-heal before anything gets too bad. xD

The "Your Mum" jokes made me sub

I mained astro, now I main sage and gunbreaker, all of those classes were pretty hard for the first few hours as you had to learn healing and tanking and all the different abilities. But once you learn them, they aren't that bad. I did drop astro for sage though, I just find the dps healer laser shield tank to be more fun overall.

I expect a return email reply or I will be greatly disappointed 7:10 ...GREAT change of pace and look forward to this style of presentation in future videos!

Kougaoun: Healing is hard Me: LOL fairy go zoom! also communication with co healer? Double kerachole it is

Abyssos was the first time I did and cleared Savage raiding, as a SGE healer. The previous healer of the static, now DNC, said he didnt't envy me being the new healer with all the new and extra stuff that got thrown out for healers that tier. But man, it's satisfying to keep the party alive and having trust in your co-healer to have your back and coördinate your heals with. Also the fun times when I accidentaly became a lala missile when I used Icarus to fly to the Dancer when the mechanic was a spread instead of a stack.

After playing through EW's savage tier and doing UWU I've found healing is the exact same as a DPS rotation it's just you aren't burning your CD's during a specific window you're burning them during specific boss casts. For UWU I ran SGE and had every single mechanic noted for what heals I pressed. For p12s I had an exact rundown of when I clicked my buttons because of when they would come back and how hard I needed to mit to not let players die. While everybody else is figuring out how to fit their uptime into doing mechanics healers are figuring out how low they can let you go.

@Kougaon On healer you just need to change up what 'game' you're playing: Flex on how much leeway you can give that tank! Or how well you can weave in your damage!

Healing got more difficult for me when I started doing the Stormblood and Shadowbringer raids in preparation for Endwalker. I'm bad at doing content that's not chopping trees, and so much anxiety was produced... '~'

When I first played I played SMN, but switched to playing SCH because of queue times during Stormblood. I am a healer main now and am at the point where I only have DPSs left to LVL but don't really want to because of queue times 😐

Sage felt easymode healing after learning it, just wish the lasers felt more impactful (I miss the WHM rocks I think). Hardest part about playing a healer is like you said, team cohesion, and trying to harmonize with the other healer. It's easy to waste a swiftcast trying to rez the same player

As someone who jumps between roles depending on the content and someone who works retail, I respect the dedication that the healer mains have. I deal with stupid for a living, I am not dealing with it full time in my mmo lmao. Also as someone that really feels the pain of doing content as a Dark Knight when I don't want to shut my brain off as a Warrior, thank you for easing the pain that is my life as I pray I am allowed to actually heal from Living Dead and hating the fact that Abyssal Drain shares an OGCD with another skill. I get that we have TBN, but... does that really hold much to what the hell Warrior can do?

1:32 Summoner with Resurrection: Am I a joke to you?!

The jet grind radio sounds 🤯😂

The amount of saves by a RDM verraise is beyond count…

Had to pause the video as soon as I heard "watch your carbuncles hp" and double check when this came out. Carby doesn't have an HP bar anymore. Ever since and maybe a little before they lobotmized it into just a glowing bouncy mascot.

I don't use Rescue because I want people to learn from their mistakes.

Been playing for two years now. Started as conjurer and switched to sage once Endwalker launched. Love my sage. But the amount of fun I have is determined by the party. Most groups do well enough that I get bored only doing damage with the occasional healing and mitigation for party wide damage. I tend to have the most fun when the party is clueless and I have to put more effort into managing the party rather than doing damage. For that reason I love those rare occasions when my roulettes place me with three sprouts as the ensuing chaos not only lets me have fun as a healer, but also lets me test my skills in keeping the group alive and moving forward.

Only issue I have with playing healer is the lack of drip they struggle there.

"Healers have no cool weapons or armor." Me as Sage with a black and gold trechcoat and four literal guns floating behind me.

I love playing astro but even after a year of doing so I'm still trying to use some of the abilities more efficiently 😅

being rescued from an aoe feels like your mom dragging you by the ear when you're in trouble (i was too distracted divebombing into the boss to notice the entire party on the opposite side of the arena avoiding a big aoe) (( it will happen again)) (((DRG skydiving is fun)))

I really enjoy playing the healer role and I like to overcome tough challenges. I prefer shield healers because they are able to help groups that may be lacking in gear, certain mechanics, or people simply standing in fire. I enjoy doing it so much that I will volunteer my time to help people even when they aren't asking for it. That includes out in the world, parties that have lost their healer, and running raids to help people progress by explaining the mechanics and coming up with easy to execute strategies. Of all of the roles in video games, playing a healer or a sniper are my favorite, followed by playing a specialist that doesn't fit into a specific role. An Example of a specialist would be Abathur from Heroes of the Storm or Azir from league of legends. In Overwatch and Overwatch 2, Ana, Moira, and Baptist are my go-to picks when playing the support role. I hope that future games will continue to include the healer role so that I can continue to enjoy them the way that I have been for so many years.

The only thing scholar is better than sage at is putting bigger shields and inflating the group's dps in such a way that it's gonna endup higher than sage at the high end parsing through stratagem, else scholar is a worse and clunkier sage. Most pugs in savage spam their resources into energy drain like idiots and either wipe the group to their shitty healing contribution or make me their bitch to overheal compensate for their negligency. When i see a scholar as my cohealer i'm always a bit afraid, usually sages are more reliable. I've extensive experience with all the healers throughout all the endwalker savage tiers and i'm of the opinion that sage is just easier to manage, and more convenient than scholar yet more complicated to understand than white mage, but in execution sage is very easy to use as far as healing goes. AST is definitely the hardest healer which i main, followed by scholar and sage with white mage stand at the easy tier for me. Every time i go from scholar to sage in a fight i can apply the exact same mental healing map and still yield good results and sage just feels like a breeze compared to scholar because you're getting 1x Addersgall(name of the sage resource) every 20 seconds with an ogcd that gives another every 90 seconds, whereas scholar has dissipation which makes the game a bit more inconvenient since you trade the fairy for 20% more healing for 30seconds every 3minutes and have only access to 3 of the scholar equivalent resource to addersgall every minute. Even though i have to admit, the spreadlo shields from Scholar are very precious in these hard and trying times, sage is still the better healer in my opnion. You can also apply these healers to different situations, sage is a very good healer for multihitting strong damage output from bosses due to panhaima and scholar is very good against single hits that are very strong due to having access to massive shields.

Every healers need a healer for their mental health.

and here am i...always choosing healer when i'm blazed cause it's literally the only role i don't f up in that mode, lol. as healer i always get in this kind of flow where everything is just going smooth af. without a smoke tho i always just panic.

A Kougaon video in my subbox LETS GOOO

I am a AST main and I laughed when he said that "What the hell is tht thing". Yep, we healers are not the best jobs to okay but it is satisfying and very satisfying when a run does not go smooth and the Tank do big pulls and we still keeping the party function. When the boss fights and NO one is doing the mechanics or the fights getting a bit messy but we cleared anyway. When people respect you for backing up all those mistakes they made and still managed to clear the content. I sleep with a smile. Ofcourse we healers have our ups and downs, especially recently I am learning new boss fights and man CAN it get any worse. Yeah...everytime when that happens I start to doubt myself, but coming back the next week and fibd out that "Hey, I am seening the mechanics go off, the picture is becoming clear" That is satisfying.

This is some cutting edge teal screen technology : o

Since I got to Heavensward and got AST class unlocked I never looked back. It gets hard sometimes and my controller dies at the worst moment, but I absolutely love to hop back and forth healing / dpsing. Guess I’m masochist xD

That haurchefant death still hurts 😭

me watching this knowing I'm PF progging this savage tier on healer yeah I may be a slight(see missive) masochist. took me a week and a half along with many drinks to get through P9S and now working on P10s

Was a main whm for most of my time on ffxiv. But than switched to be a main astro, and are now a main sage 😅🙂 and yes it can be hard sometimes to be a healer