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[thecosmicsleep]

Estinien: "What? I don't have feelings for the Warrior of Light. Why would I?"

Aymeric & Haurchefant: "Why WOULDN'T you????"

[cutiesigh]

「Demo WIP」 Can y'all watch my plant real quick? 🍈

[alphascorpiixx]

(putting this here so I'll remember what i'm supposed to be doing) plan before starting Endwalker:

finish eden raids

finish healer and magic dps role quests

level paladin to 80

[la-casa-de-xio]

Endwalker: Start vs End

Me at the start of Endwalker

Me at the end.

Endwalker was an interesting expansion, a lot of things happened to me IRL which has colored my opinion of it, but here's to Dawntrail!

[sie-sharp]

𝚂𝚊𝚐𝚎 × 𝒟𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇 arcanima as performance

[designsdefiance]

day 8: favourite job

m'seyli's jumped around a few different jobs; first an archer, from her history as a huntress with her tribe, though she found fighting enemies with a bow too different to quietly picking off a prey target to really gel with it. after seeing gridanian conjurers save her sister's life, she was inspired to take up conjury herself and found healing was much more her style.

conjury served her well, but she reached a point where it just wasn't doing enough. she tried a couple different things in a desperate attempt to be better and do more, and ultimately found her true calling with sage. lasers go brrrrr.

[lavampira]

laughed so hard at a dps getting rezzed on the open floor of M4 and then falling back to death that I missed the fivefold pattern and nearly got got myself, so like, karma etc

but it was so fucking funny

[plushchimera]

I wish gearing up was easier so I could just put the entire set into a dresser and be indecisive about colors in peace

[hecksguard]

[impossible-rat-babies]

saw mechanics in rabanastre I would have thought were cool if people weren’t dying all over the place

[thecosmicsleep]

aymeric just fucking panic-yelling as wol turns away bc he wants to ask them to get drinks 😂

[superdarkfuntimes]

LEVEL 90 WHM

[lifewithcake]

Quick Overview of the Dawntrail Healers

The Dawn will be upon us soon, so I wanted to give a quick overview of the new healer tools! The official Job Guide has been updated (including Viper and Pictomancer) so go take a look if you're interested :)

(I say quick overview and then there's AST)

At Level 94, all healers and casters will see Swiftcast's CD reduced to 40s (down from 60s).

Now for the individual stuff:

*For clarity: nuke-AoE = "deals X damage to main target and reduced damage to all nearby enemies" ; regular AoE = equal damage

Unless otherwise stated, the following abilities are unlocked from 92->100 in the usual 2-level increments.

White Mage

Retroactively at L40, Whm gets a gap closer

Presence of Mind followup attack: a new nuke-AoE (3 uses)

Glare 3, Dia, and Blood Lily damage potency upgrade

Medica 2 upgrade

Second charge of Tetragrammaton

Under Temperance, Whm has access to a party-wide barrier. Party members receive a HoT when the barrier expires**

Scholar

Effective from L66, Chain Stratagem's duration has been increased from 15s -> 20s

Chain Stratagem followup attack: a new AoE DoT

Potency upgrade to Broil 4 and Biolysis

Succor upgrade

Recitation CD reduced to 60s

Scholar's L100 ability Seraphism is a 20s active mode (like Temperance/Neutral Sect) that does the following:

AoE HoT for the full duration

Resets the Emergency Tactics CD and sets the CD to 1s

Upgrades Adloquium and Succor's heal value

Essentially, this provides Scholar with a lot of GCD healing power on top of a team-wide HoT. Dissipation is locked for the duration, but all other Fairy abilities are available.

Finally there's a button-mapping change: Summon Seraph no longer changes to Consolation when using Seraph, meaning you MUST map Consolation to your hotbar.

Sage

Retroactively at L82, Sage gets an AoE DoT

New nuke-AoE

Soteria CD reduced from 90s -> 60s

Dosis 3, Toxikon 2, and Pneuma damage potency upgrade

Eukrasian Prognosis upgrade

Physis 2's healing action buff is extended from 10s -> 15s

Sage's L100 ability Philosophia buffs healing magic (GCDs) for 20s and adds a buff to nearby party members that restores party HP upon using spells (again, GCDs). This is almost like giving the entire party Kardia, but the key difference here is this applies to both offensive and healing spells. Meaning, using GCD heals such as Prognosis and Diagnosis will trigger the additional healing just as Dosis will.

Astrologian

Effective at lower levels, Combust and Combust 2 have been buffed slightly

For all levels, Divination's duration has been increased from 15s -> 20s

Divination followup attack: a new AoE

Combust 3 and Fell Malefic potency upgrade

Aspected Helios upgrade

Third charge of Essential Dignity

Under Neutral Sect, Ast has access to a party-wide 10% mitigation**

As for the card changes, the cards you draw are no longer random. Ast will draw three major arcana and one minor arcana at once. Each card now has a unique effect and are grouped under Astral and Umbral sets:

Astral Set

Balance: 6% damage buff for melee/tank, 3% if other

Arrow: Increases recovery via healing actions

Spire: Barrier

Lord of Crowns: AoE damage

Umbral Set

Spear: 6% damage buff for ranged/healer, 3% if other

Bole: 10% damage reduction

Ewer: HoT

Lady of Crowns: AoE heal

Redraw and Undraw are gone. The old Draw button will be replaced by Astral Draw and Umbral Draw, which share a button that switches from one set to the other. This means you are forced to rotate through both sets. From what I've seen, Ast loads into the instance with the Astral cards drawn, meaning that Umbral Draw will be your first button. The CD of the new Draw is 60s.

You will now have three separate Play buttons, in addition to the minor arcana button. The cards are paired as follows: Balance/Spear, Arrow/Bole, Spire/Ewer, Lord/Lady. (The table above is arranged by the same pairs)

The Seal system is also gone, which includes Astrodyne.

A button mapping change: Macrocosmos no longer changes to Microcosmos automatically. You must map Microcosmos to your hotbar separately.

Lastly, Aspected Helios now unlocks at L40 (previously L42), which basically ensures Asts will have it for Cutter's Cry and Stone Vigil.

**In case this wasn't clear, Whm and Ast's L100 abilities are NEW buttons. You control the timing of their activation but can only do so under Temperance/Neutral Sect.

That's the four healers! I kept numbers to a minimum since this is really meant to be a cursory glance. Take a look at the job guide if you'd like to see more specifics details. I wish you all luck with your queues, may the Dawn welcome you gently and with no crashes~

[la-casa-de-xio]

"Three village idiots head off on an adventure"

I fucking love the Hildibrand quests. They never fail to put a smile on my face and even in my darkest days they left me in a good mood. The cutscenes are just so fucking funny, especially the extra animations.

Looking forward to seeing you in Tural Inspector!

[deathandthesoul]

Positive: I got to Sage LB3 today Negative: I had to Sage LB3 today This was after telling @storyowls in vc "I wish I could LB3 in here. Oh wait I'm not dps I'm a healer, maybe I shouldn't want that"