Hopefully not much! But you'd certainly know what you could improve on I suppose! 😁

I would argue that Sage and Scholar need to be swapped due to the nature of Kardion. Proper use of Kardia requires dancing the buff around with weaving to move the healing, which is something a faerie does automatically without input. The faerie also performs its healing automatically without requiring input; if there's somebody in range to heal, it heals. It's such a no-fuss system. A Sage has a strange healing system compared to the others. Ideally you want to perform all your healing with OGCDs and Kardia, meaning you want to be highly aware of your cooldowns and how to efficiently space them. This is due to the nature of Kardia vs the faerie; a faerie will keep healing while you heal, but Kardia stops providing its bonus healing if you stop and perform healing/shielding. Due to this, you are punished a lot more for having to hard-cast healing at any point as a Sage. This is somewhat complicated by addersgall. It incentivizes you to use your shields and charge it, but putting up your shields at any point except before pulls or during fight downtime is a loss. This means that a Sage has to learn when dropping a Eukrasian shield is a net gain. Scholar also has the advantage of Art of War being so damned good for pulls that they don't have to do anything else. Use Sacred Soil, weave Lustrate as needed, be near the tank, and slam Art of War on the enemies, and they can perform almost the entire game's content. Swap Art of War for Biolysis/Broil on single targets and you're fine. People like to huff and say that it's a choice between Lustrate and Energy Drain, but they're being ignorant or dishonest a lot of the time; usually you're using your charges on Sacred Soil and spotting heals with Lustrate, because if you don't spot heals with Lustrate you have to perform the odd hard-cast heal, and (since Energy Drain is only 100 potency) that's a net loss. It's only a 'thing' when you have a co-healer. Sage, on the other hand, has an array of things to do during the pull. They can't rely on just Sacred Soil, their faerie, and one weaved heal in Lustrate to handle it all. They have to think like a reverse tank and stagger their cooldowns, all while tracking a larger array of AoE damage spells. One thing you also didn't touch on was how Sacred Soil is a lot more powerful that Kerachole due to the hidden mechanic of buff application. Sacred Soil actually applies a secret instant tick for 100 potency, meaning its healing is 100 potency higher, and the damage reduction lingers for 2-3 extra seconds after the area fades, meaning its mitigation lasts longer. This might not sound like much, but with how powerful Kerachole and Sacred Soil are before taking this into consideration, it bumps Sacred Soil up to ludicrous levels.

Astrologian is an odd healer in the sense that if you only do what a White Mage does (Aspected Benefic, Benefic II, Aspected Helios) you can mimic what makes a White Mage simple, and complicate it in steps to get comfortable with it. Once you take into account Essential Dignity, I would argue that Astrologian is one of the easiest healers to play at skill floor. Where Astrologian gets difficult is when you do anything more than that, and it suffers from severe button bloat. I believe one of the most difficult aspects of the class is finding enough comfortable key bindings to not click your abilities. It's simply that engorged with things to do. In practice, however, if you just dole out your cards with a priority system, use Essential Dignity, and heal like a White Mage, you'll do fine. Smatter in the other spells and weaves slowly as you get comfortable and it becomes second nature. It is definitely the hardest healer if you try to reach the skill ceiling, absolutely, but if you're not doing things like, say, monitoring the Dark Knight's burst phase to card them, or using some sort of abacus to monitor your party's DPS to determine the best Samurai to put physical cards on, then Sage honestly can compete in difficulty. A lot of the late-game healing just becomes "Place star, throw blue cards on melee and purples on casters, be a White Mage with Essential Dignity". I would argue that ED is so damned good that it is worth the card business just to have it in your kit. Anything else you do feels 'extra'.

Yes, plentiful harvest is only usable once per arcane circle and can only be used around 5-6 seconds after arcane circle as well 😅

It sounds heavy handed and shit talk heavy when taking it at face value and not seeing the systemic pattern across a lot of the series. In isolation it looks and sounds pretty bad but across the 14 videos of the series it tells of a systemic problem with the game when it allows players to skip absolutely everything up till the start of current expansion, doesn't adequately explain basic core mechanics to roles in an either intuitive or mandatory way (guildhest and hall of the novice is all optional), nor really encourage players to read their tooltips to get an idea how their job, or role, functions. Then we have to consider players being reinforced by their previous experiences to come to a conclusion that what they currently, and in the future, are doing is good and are reluctant to change it in fear of doing something wrong or just feel entitled to the way they play is the right way and anyone else trying to teach/tell them how to play is wrong and isn't the one playing their game for them. It feels like that too many players end up too reluctant to adapt and change after having the initial core part of their kit because "if it worked for me then it'll always work" ends up being the default mentality especially in the case of healers because they haven't necessarily been forced to adapt and move on. And about the Healer Strike, the original thread creator for the strike has not completed anything past Extremes with pretty verifiable proof of it. Does it necessarily invalidate the strike? Not really, but quite a number of the points start falling apart because jobs should be tuned to the highest level of content and while dungeon content has been getting seemingly easier it has more so been the product of Tanks gaining more and more defensive power compared to offensive as a result of time as well as a direction to make many dungeon boss mechanics be avoidable damage. But MSQ dungeons are also the bottom level of battle content that everyone should be able to clear through no questions asked so it should be easier. Also it is 400 people in "active participation" in their dedicated Discord and the 3400 posts in thread looks like a lot of back and forth flaming/discussion. It's getting more and more discussion cause a number of smaller creators are jumping in on it as well as Zepla sticking her neck into something she never had a stake in.

I think you completely misunderstood the video Raventhor. 😊 You can see in the actual chat log in the footage that if I say something, it is well meaning and positive first of all. Second, when I point out the mistakes, it might sound a bit aggressive if the mistakes are particularly bad, but that is because it reaches a point where I try to make it a joke instead because of how bad it is. However, the key here is that most often, the problem isn't that the players (for example healers) are making mistakes, the problem is that they do so, and also don't take advice. As a mentor, sure, my task is also to help players through, but it isn't to be some god gamer that carries, that is not how this works. As a mentor, my task is also to give advice and help the other players. But if they ignore it or refuse it, then not much i can do. But I CAN teach other new players about these mistakes in a video highlighting it. And I think you should consider that I do have a lot of new players watching this channel that regularly voice their appreciation for this advice 😊 if you think what I said in the video qualifies as toxic, then I think you've been very lucky! 😅 Edit: also you saying "what is the point?"... It's a gameplay video showcasing my journey of doing mentor roulettes.... I say that at the start 😂

@KaguyaEne thank you for that detailed analysis! I had heard about the healer strike, but not much further so thank you for the further insight 😊

@@KaguyaEne I do agree with many of your points but it seems the points you've made are indication of the issue with the system and not specifically the player. While the player still has a hand in the choices they make when playing the game it seems the system is still designed in a way that doesn't encourage these players to adapt and that's really the issue. This video seemed to focus on the issues the system created as though they were the players fault when they aren't and that's my issue. Blaming the wrong thing basically.

@@CaetsuChaijiCh I believe it may be an issue of the presentation then. To me it almost feels like you are trying to call people out when doing a mentor roulette when the purpose of that roulette is to pair mentors with less experienced players and thus you can expect various issues to pop up due to the players inexperience. Calling them out for their refusal to listen and heed your advice however is definitely a different story and is an indication of their own toxic behavior. In the case where they do this blatantly I can't blame you for that, but if they just don't respond there might be another reason why this is the case. In my years playing FF I have encountered people who have this perception of FF that it's a single player game and because ffxiv was the newest out at the time there have been issues where players have played it as such. Another similar issue is those who might be playing on ps4 yet do not have a keyboard. The game does not support voice chat either nor explains that these players are playing with people not on ps4 which can make communication difficult. I have one such friend that if I wasn't currently educating him on these issues he would be like many of these players you are encountering in mentor roulette.

I wish I got more extremes, maybe not A LOT, but I'd take a few more than what I've been getting at least! 😅

Both these times none were sprouts btw

Yeah most players have no idea how this mechanic works! In fairness, it doesn't happen much in casual content certainly!

@@CaetsuChaijiCh Yeah I think the first time it shows up in casual content is Alexander.... which you get access to AFTER ARF lmao

I feel when you only have initials on the players, it makes people view them as less real, and somehow justifies being meaner. Also, if someone actually wanted to seek any of the people in these videos out, initials a race and a region can absolutely be enough to find them. So I feel this idea of using only initials is a false sense of anonymity anyway

It is a surprise, just like an arfing dog! 😁

Warrior can't solo arf synced due to a dps check! 😂

Also the fact that they are on a 50% off sale right now.

It’s also obvious when a caster makes mistakes but not as clear when physical dps are.

Uh, if you had to make a macro because it happens so often I don’t think the other players are the problem.

@@ditzyhere3138 and I'm not going to tell my boyfriend to change how he plays he game

That sounds like quite the bad behaviour for a partner. I got my wife into XIV and she likes healing, as a healer and tank main myself, I teach her and give her information about her job so she can improve. You obviously know that Cure 1 at level 90 is bad practice, but instead of helping your partner improve you choose to hold him back and instead of helping him you pretend like the other people are the problem. That's just sad to hear. Also, you can't kick people just because you are party leader in roulettes, you still need to vote for it. Party leader makes literally no difference at all.