I thought it was funny that she thought she was even capable of taking our soul after we literally brought her whole interdimensional future kingdom to its knees almost single-handedly. Also the music in her raid was the worst of the 4 imo.
They did that like, 2 or 3 times if I recall; and it was so sudden and jarring each time I actually said aloud: "What the fuck is this? A Disney movie?"
As others have said too, they need to get rid of fucking Freecure. The number of Whm I've seen casting Cure I long after they should have stopped is ridiculous. It would be nice if they made it into some sort of talent that encourages the use of Cure II.
Hell, I moved Cure 1 to some unknown corner of my Role Action hotbar right after I got Cure II. It's only around in case I get a low-level roulette. Even having Regen by Haukke Manor would work wonders for learning how to manage pulls. It's MENTAL how little agency you have as the one job designed to keep retards from licking floor polish
The aether that makes up a soul is distinct from corporeal aether because it's specific aether that comes from the lifestream. Memories also fall into this category. Because of that, souls are a more potent and unique form of aether. The theory is that if you mix together a decaying soul with a denser soul, it will replenish and probably even strengthen it. Think back on when we took Ardbert's soul. It was able to strengthen us enough to overcome the corruption of light aether that was turning us into a sin eater. As for why she needs a soul specifically, it's because like how the endless can only be sustained by souls, souls can only be mixed with other souls. You can't just pump it full of regular aether 'cause it won't work. Trying to mash another type of aether onto a soul would only corrupt the aether of the soul. That's how tempering works.
It's doubly bad because you run into MP issues spamming Cure II, so that makes new players think they need to fish for Freecure procs. The class just really teaches a lot of bad habits.
Remember to acquire the inevitable God complex that comes with the job. Life and death are in your hands. Also playing as a healer will highlight you how bad people play compared to other classes and youll get annoyed. Honestly as a heretic Astrologian, i can tell you that you will learn to hate others more while playing healer.
Can confirm, I'll play every healer at max level for faster queue times, and god the sheer paste eating retardation you see is insane. I honestly want to slap the living shit out of whoever decided to nerf the damage of the stack markers in Syrcus. The number of times I've seen max level players in normal raids stack the fucking markers and then wonder why I nope out and let them die is infuriating.
To add to that, if you as a healer try to explain or even give them pointers for their class(even at high level, yes people are still being retards that far up) sometimes they lashed out or they ignore you and keep doing the same shit.
It reminded me of when we took in all the light aspected aether on the First. Just this time it's lightning aspected aether.
A lot of healing in FFXIV is learning for yourself when to heal and when to let your tank sweat to squeeze in one more Glare/Holy. You'll probably greed a bit too much a couple of times but who cares, worst outcome is everyone takes the walk of shame and you learned something. Also, this sounds kind of like a duh, but, once you get Afflatus Misery, when you get your 3rd lily and you know you aren't going to need all 3 charges right away, spend a lily on Afflatus Rapture, the more blood lilies you get the faster everything dies. Whm really is considered the easiest because it's mana economy is very forgiving and you get a lot of instant cast direct heals that don't use MP.
Speaking from personal retardation: For dungeons don't underestimate how good Holy is (the answer is very). I kinda ignored it early on, because it's unlocked around the time dungeon pulls start to hit hard and you'll think the tank won't survive without the constant heals if he pulls big, but Holy will usually effect mobs multiple times and it has a pretty good AOE and it's very cheap, so you can spam it from a relatively safe distance and not burn through your mana. You can basically turn off the whole pull for 5-6 seconds in total. If you want to be safe you can bounce between Holy and Cure2 on the tank, but just dumping a few Holies from the start then healing also works.
I've gotten shit for keeping regen on 24/7 on the tank, because it's "a waste of a good glare cycle." I don't mind pulling my weight in DPS when I heal, but some people have weird priorities.
I've been Level Synched as a Sage. I now no longer believe there is a just and righteous god, just a crude abomination left behind to mock us and our efforts
Blood for the Blood God? Got it
Continuation is going to be a gateway drug
Perfect advice. Especially Living Dead, because it's special even among the invulns
Pray your roulettes don't land on Stone Vigil or earlier
GNB fucking owns. It's the best designed class in the game. Plus for whatever reason they made it even better in DT while not touching PLD's button bloat or DRK's many many issues.