Capped Healing in 3 easy months!Follow

tell me about it! hit 75 around feb time, only yesterday i capped out healing magic....from 273 to 276....how?.....1 merit party for about 2hrs if that, i started throwing cures on Jnun, party was ok with it when i told them i was close to cap and all i wanted to do was cap it then wouldn't continue doing it, exp still happened and didn't compromise me doing my job.

Healing magic is way too hard to cap though through the normal methods, capping it on undead is ALOT quicker.

but to the OP, good work.

I was pissed when I found out casting cure on "Undead Swarm" causes no damage :( There are undead darn it...should work.

Casting cure on npc during besieged gets skillups nicely.

Edited, Aug 9th 2006 at 11:43pm EDT by Vamprey

Thanks for the suggestions. I have done all of them at various points. I haven't xp'd in KRT since the early 70's because I refuse to go unless I know the group I am with is skilled. In Caedarva Mire parties, I rarely have time to cure the few Jnuns that are pulled. Currently, my time in game is very limited and I usually only log on to do CoP, Dynamis, or level COR. I don't have so much money that I would buy a controller just to easily skill something that has very little benefit. I do have a Healing Skill macro (that I don't need anymore ^^), along with both SMN sub and a Noble's Tunic, but, again, see my time comment above.

Any of those are great suggestions for people wanting to cap Healing Skill, I just don't need them.

You guys are gonna think I suck or something but...I found out that casting Cure spells on normal non-aggro IT monsters gets you skill-ups. At the same rate as casting on an IT undead. >.> I went from 150+ to 173 in less than an hour or so.

Two years here and mine is 273 lol.

I just hit 75 and healing skill is near cap. In a merit party when hasting 4 people I go haste, cure mob, cure mob, haste, cure mob, cure mob, haste, cure mob, cure mob, haste (unless people need regens among other things). I went from 264 to 270 in one party. In the last party I went up to 271. Now the skill-ups are getting really slow, but after a few more parties of doing this I hope it'll get there soon.

I really want to know what is with all you people talking about "trying to cap divine" at level 75. What, didn't you ever use flash regularly when leveling? I understand not having it capped pre-45. By the 50s, you should be seeing it catch up. In the 60s you should easily cap it. Not having it capped by 75 is just pathetic.



I would boot you from my party so fast. "Oh hey I want to cap healing, so I'm going to do that in this party by curing mobs. It won't give the mob any hp, but it sure will take up my time and mp. You guys don't care about chains, right?" It's a MERIT party, do your freaking job. If you want to spam cures on mobs to cap healing, go to Bibiki Bay and spam cure the Dhalmels. Lord knows nobody parties there anymore. I understand not everyone can do it in Sea like I did, but there are plenty of non-aggroing mobs that you CAN cast on to get the job done. If I get in a merit party with someone like you, I think I'll just break out my Kinkobo, toss down a Pamama and take my Staff all the way to cap on my Monk, because hey, why not right?

And Enfeebling magic? Haven't you heard of Dia II? Always lands, and gives a static damage reduction. Don't need to be a RDM.

Discussing how to cap club or staff as a WHM at 75 I can understand, but discussing how to cap skills that should have long ago capped (Enfeebling and Divine, with Enhancing close to cap) is just sad. Do people no longer take any pride in their job? Hell, White Mage wasn't even my first job to 75, and I STILL put in the effort to do the job right the first time.

Spam Cure 1 or 2 on high lvl non aggro mobs for skillups. I used the Wamoura Prince in Mt. Z for this and capped healing magic in one night.

Yeah I'm with Cyth. It doesn't aggro you when you cure it, so that's a completely solo activity. To waste MP in a merit party for that is just... dumb. I'd rather have you melee than do that. There's no reason you can't do that just as easily soloing. I mean, it's bad enough if some ninja is trying to skill up on warp cudgels in an xp party... but at least that does hurt the mob and helps somewhat (though still should not be done) but curing the mob contributes NOTHING AT ALL to the party. As in, don't do it. Do it on your own time.

Ok this is how i skilled my healing magic up 22 lvls in 30 minutes.

• I went to the lil runic portal thing in whitegate.
• Got myself one of those runic portal passes from the nice lil taru.
• Walk up to the platform and head out to Havlung.
• Sneak/invis my way past bombs, crawlers, and ghosts to the area by where you escape to from mount zayom.
• Cast cure on the leeches and lil green penquin things until my hearts content.

That is all you need to do and i am lvl 68 and did this so if your over that you may want to find some harder mobs but once you get that stating point your good to go on capping healing magic. Also do be wary of earth elemental and ghost types that spawn in that area they do spawn in the western side though towards the tunnel you come through from the staging point. Therefore if you stay near the water side you can 99% of the time avoid any and all aggro.

This trick of casting cures on non-aggro mobs for skillups has been nerfed by SE in the last update.

The White Mage in our static party also noted in our last XP session (where we all dinged 75 ^^) that the ability to throw cures on the mobs we're fighting to skillup healing magic, has also been nerfed.

This has been noted elsewhere, but since I saw this in a sticky, with no update, I wanted to share this to avoid a lot of frustration.

Just cast cure on undead swarm mobs in besieged. I capped mine easy that way. You get mad skillups from them. Usually anything Cure III and above will do more than 0 damage so I just spam Cure III's on the skeles, ghosts, and mummies. This was at level 60, so it may not work or you may need to Cure IV to actually get the damage above zero at lower levels.

Edited, Jan 24th 2007 4:29pm by Harri

Yep. Which means I'm going to have to continue spamming cure 1 on generals in besieged. That skills up just as fast (and it contributes too). As long as I use those Cure Vs when they're really hurt.

lol please don't give whm's a bad rep by curing mobs in exp/merit. People compain that whm get invited to less meripo's. If I was in such a party, I would prolly think that if whm has mp to waste like that, why not get a rdm instead.

Just curious. Does increasing healing skill serve a purpose after you hit the soft caps for all the cure spells? (besides adding a few points to your cures and giving you a nice feeling when the skill is capped)

The higher your healing magic skill, the less change you'll be interrupted if you're hit. It's not a huge % rate, but it's something.

Because a RDM healer will use Cures more often than a WHM, for lack of other tools.
A good WHM cures as little as possible. Cure is a last-resort thing, it's what you do when there's no other way to either prevent the damage from being done or soak it up in time.

Although Cure V is a great spell and can save lives and can also save a lot of MP, the true power of a WHM as a healer doesn't come from more Curing. It comes from preventing damage more efficiently (barspells and high Protect/Shells for the party, Flash, Shining Ruby if /SMN) and healing it more efficiently (Regen II and III).
Regen II is awesome. It does wonders. I've probably cast Regen II more than I've cast Cure III in my whole WHM life. When everything's going smoothly in a party, I'm usually cruising on 80% Enhancing/Divine Magic and 20% Healing Magic, unless we're fighting AoE-oriented mobs and Curagas are the most MP-efficient way of healing. But apart from those situations, the less Cures I have to throw in, the more comfortable I feel in the party. Having to turn into a curebot means that something's wrong.

Playing Curebot will cap your Healing Magic skill. Playing WHM won't.

(That's also why I usually prefer PLD tanks: slap a Regen II or III on them and they're doing fine on their own most of the time. Whereas Regen doesn't work that well on NIN tanks - either they're at full HP, or they need a Flash and a big Cure now. I feel limited in what I can do to help a NIN tank - besides Haste, but a RDM can Haste too.)

I'm level 62 WHM, skilling up Healing Magic on Reserve Draguar's at the Arrapogo Reef zone from Caedarva Mire. The mages take forever to decide what to cast, so it's possible to spam a great deal of cures on them before needing to zone.
I've got 1.6 skill off one mob, and about 10 skill total in @ 30 min.

2 words.

Undead Swarm. Thats how I cap my Healing each level.

People asked me why it took me soooo long to hit 75. Its because being a whm I figured it was important to keep my healing magic capped.

Edited, Aug 5th 2007 7:10am by Gijusi

I'm a PLD, and a good friend of mine is a WHM. AFAIK, level for level, my healing magic was normally higher then his, because while he was actually playing healer, I just needed to spam cures.

S'like Tanid said. There's a dif between curespaming and being a WHM.

Cast -na spells. They count as healing. You all disappoint me -.-

When i hit WHM75 my Healing Skill was 200ish O_o

I capped it within 5 Besieged.

Just stand next to General Mihli (the Mithra) and start spamming Cure 1
I got lots of 0.5 ups at the beginning and on average maybe every 5th cure gave a skillup.

I chose Mihli because in the "normal" Besieged the mobs wont get near Mihli.


Could it be that Healing Skill works a bit like Elemental Skill?
I was in the position that my RDM was 25 levels higher than BLM and i subbed BLM.
I never bothered to cap Elemental Skill back then but i noticed that when i cast nukes on low level mobs i got rarely/small skillups. But when i cast on higher level mobs i got faster/higher skillups.

Maybe i got more skillups on the Generals because they are ~lvl80 ?
(they are surely in level higher than the normal Players).

Seeing as he posted that May 14th of last year, I'm sure the discussion is over to him.

As ive mentioned before, im lvling WHM on my 6th character now and ive found a very easy and time efficient eway to lvl Healing and Enhancing Magic until at least lvl50. Its not for high levels but ge tyour WHM to lvl 25 and do this, you'll have your capped lvls fast!

1) Stand outside a mog house and cast just Cure1 (NOT Cure2), Regen1 and Protectra on yourself until your MP is done.

2) Walk into your mog house for a free and quick full heal then walk out.

3) Repeat steps 1 and 2

Trust your boy Darthburbs, people on the Gilgamesh server have seen me do it a million times... they'll also tell you I dont like wasting time! ;)