Advice for WHM in Dyna?Follow

It's my first ever end game event so I'm worried I'll mess up!

What does WHM normaly do in Dyna? Are there loads of enfeebles to look out for? Do you regen/haste as much as possible? Repose? How does it work with other WHMs etc...

Also, would I need Sacrifice or Ensuna? lol

Thank you!!!

Thank you, that is really good advice!

We're doing Dyna Sandy after maintenace. Can't wait!

THIS!!

Those hecteyes spam Dispelga too, it's a total nightmare if they aren't slept. In fact, keep them Silenced too for when they wake up.

If you're the tank party WHM, I recommend having at least 900 max HP. Why? If you go down, the tanks will go down as well. If the tanks go down everyone goes down. 900 HP will help keep you alive. 1,000 HP is even better.

Dynamis is a hostile environment for all jobs, especially if your BLMs are having issues sleeping mobs and tanks are having issues rounding up hate for the large group of mobs that are pulled at a time. Throw a cure or two and you might have a loose mob attack you repeatedly. These mobs hit hard and you can die very quickly. If you can stay alive long enough to cast Cure V on yourself, you'll increase your survivability significantly, even more so now with Cure V's stoneskin.

If you're the tank party WHM, save your mp for curing the tanks. If everything is going smooth in your party and you're sitting near full mp for a stretch, you can help cure the BLMs. If you're not the tank party WHM, you can help cure the tanks and BLMs.

Haste. If you happen to be in a melee DD party, keeping the melees hasted is important. Since Dynamis is a timed event, helping the melees kill faster will help the linkshell get to the next time extension statue and will produce faster drops for the shell as well. If you're in the tank party keeping the tanks hasted lowers their Flash recast timers which helps them keep hate better. However if you run low on mp in a tough situation, the melees can live without haste for a little bit.

Avoid casting anything but cure spells on MNK mobs. In the time it takes for you to cast haste or regen, the tank can die. The AoE petrify from BST scorpion pets has a very long range, so get far away. When the scorpions cast breakga, cast stona on the other WHMs first so they can help unpetrify everyone. If you cast silence on BST pet birds or slimes, make sure they stay silenced. Be ready to recast silence quickly if it wears.

If your ls leaders tell everyone to wipe, don't cure anyone. Don't run. Mobs will come after you, and everyone will have to wait for those mobs to come back and walk past before getting up. If you die a bit early and can get up without being seen by any mobs during a wipe, you can run off and start resting. This takes experienced judgement however and I wouldn't recommend doing it if you don't know what you're doing.

That's all I can think of for now that hasn't been mentioned already. Good luck!

Generally each will look after their own party. If you notice a party that doesn't have a healer, help look after them and hopefully other healers will do the same, but generally communication won't be very strong. If you are in the tank party you may want to coordinate who casts Haste on who, and in some cases who takes primary responsibility for healing which tank. This won't be a big issue in San d'Oria, but in zones like Xarcabard you will sometimes have 3 different tanks tanking 3 different mobs, all spread out, and really need a dedicated healer watching each one.


I'm thinking Solace for Dynamis, but they're so new that I doubt anyone will have a definitive answer. Use your best judgment. To answer your other question, no Misery won't count the last hit taken when Solace is on, you need to get hit with Misery up. Even then, if you switch to Solace and then back, your record is reset as well.

Weird just got back from playing around with Misery in Dyna and I see this thread :P

Pretty much stayed in Misery the whole time, switched to Solace for Barspells a bit, but wasn't really necessary. The Cura boost is well worth it, considering how many times AoE's go off. I used Esuna religiously too, almost always casting when it was ready and trying to stay near my party so I'd get hit with whatever status hit them. Really didn't even need DS+Erase at all this way.

If I happened to not be in range of any spells, used Sacrifice on someone that did get hit and Esuna right away. Played everything else normally as Whm/Sch in a tank party. Keeping up Haste, Regens, Auspice, etc. Seems to work very well if you ask me. Even managed to get off a few Hexa's.

Misery makes a lot of sense now, as long as the Whm is taking a beating / getting nailed with status effects, you can Cura and Esuna spam. Was a nice change of pace at least.

Edited, Apr 11th 2009 2:41am by Thiez

One thing I do on the rare occasions I'm in dynamis as WHM is to watch for when green eye statues are pulled, rebuff, re-reraise then and get all my MP back as the statue dies.

some further tips:

-filter out everything you can, there is going to be alot of text you don't
need

-reserve as much mp as possible, you sitting around at almost full mp is not a bad thing so you are prepared when things go wrong

-debuffs share the same prioroty in dynamis as they do in an exp pt - silence>paralize>others

-hastes are a bonus not a necessity. If you get a DD insisiting on haste they are dead wrong. When fights are 15-30 seconds this should be a luxury.

-DD/Tanks SHOULD have rr items. Pay attention to your linkshell rules around rasiing people as most shells will. For example we do not allow R2s or R3's as they are a wasteof MP when you hould already have rr on

-listen to LS chat

-keep your macro's simple, I typically write a new line each run as there are typically only a few things you really need a macro for. Not a bad idea to have a /target "whateverthepullersnameis" macro too incase he needs a cure

-try and learn which mobs are which jobs, it will help you to know what to watch for

-repose is goddly in dynamis but should not be your main focus. If something is just not staying asleep or someone woke the wrong mob don't be afraid to use it.

-don't assume someone is going to do something, you will have 20-50 people with various degrees of skill/ability. If someone is low on HP cure them but again focus on your pt 1st

-get rid of your ego, people are gonna die, it is called DIE-namis, come to learn priorities ie you can still roll if 4-5 DD are dead/weak but if both tanks are down you are going to be sitting around

On Tues i did my first dyna since the update ( we run on Tues and Sats and Sat was called off due to Easter)

I Really enjoyed having Esuna Available.

We did Xarcabard, and those demons Love to do their SLowaga paired with the random Whm Mob or Blm Mob doing Diaga or Poisonga.

Misery + Esuna would wipe BOTH from my party in 1 cast, vs having to remove 12 individual stats. And you know how often demons use slowaga.

Cura also came in handy (since i would have it on for esuna)i would typically get hit with the AoE as well. I would then Cura for approx 180 Hp for everyone for 30 Mp.

Solica cure-stoneskins also cane in Quite handy tho. These DO transfer to ANYONE. (potentially broken PLing ability, but thats another story) So just spam cure 3's on the tank for an Extra bit of Damage reduction or paired with sentinal for ~15 secs of no damage.

Auspice also cane in wonderfully handy to reduce the ammount of TP moves the mobs did.

Sacrifice i used the least, but thats also just because i happend to be in range most of the time.

Thats all the New stuff anyway.

As for "old" strategy its similar to a normal party, haste, regen, protect, shell, cure, barspell. Its just on a much faster pace, so typically much less limited Resting time.

If you have any other whms in the shell, ask for their help, the best help you can get is typically At the event and with someone who knows exactly how your Ls runs. Not to say what others here posted is not valid, but every shell does things differently.